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DreamWorks Records was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen
David Geffen

David Geffen is an United States record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropy. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970 , and Geffen Records in 1980, along with his later role as one of the three founders of Dreamworks SKG in 1994....
, Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
 and Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg is an United States film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the DreamWorks animated films Shrek , Shark Tale, Madagascar , Over the Hedge , Bee Movie, and Kung Fu Panda....
 as a subsidiary of DreamWorks
DreamWorks

DreamWorks, LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG or DreamWorks Studios, is a major film studios United States film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming....
 SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down. The label itself also featured a Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
 based subsidiary, DreamWorks Nashville, which specialized in country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 and was also shut down in 2005.

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1996 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996....
, six years after Geffen sold Geffen Records
Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group....
 to MCA Music Entertainment
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
, he joined Spielberg and Katzenberg to form DreamWorks SKG
DreamWorks

DreamWorks, LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG or DreamWorks Studios, is a major film studios United States film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming....
, which included the subsidiary DreamWorks Records.






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DreamWorks Records was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen
David Geffen

David Geffen is an United States record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropy. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970 , and Geffen Records in 1980, along with his later role as one of the three founders of Dreamworks SKG in 1994....
, Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
 and Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg is an United States film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the DreamWorks animated films Shrek , Shark Tale, Madagascar , Over the Hedge , Bee Movie, and Kung Fu Panda....
 as a subsidiary of DreamWorks
DreamWorks

DreamWorks, LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG or DreamWorks Studios, is a major film studios United States film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming....
 SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down. The label itself also featured a Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
 based subsidiary, DreamWorks Nashville, which specialized in country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 and was also shut down in 2005.

History

In 1996
1996 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996....
, six years after Geffen sold Geffen Records
Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group....
 to MCA Music Entertainment
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
, he joined Spielberg and Katzenberg to form DreamWorks SKG
DreamWorks

DreamWorks, LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG or DreamWorks Studios, is a major film studios United States film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming....
, which included the subsidiary DreamWorks Records. The label's logo was the last project completed by artist Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was a prominent United States pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style....
. Geffen Records distributed DreamWorks until 1998, when Interscope Records took over distribution duties. Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
 was the first to be signed to the new label in early 1996. Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, spoken word, stand-up comedian, author, actor, activist and publisher.After joining the short-lived Washington, D.C....
 (both as a spoken-word artist and with Rollins Band
Rollins Band

Rollins Band was an American rock group led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins.They are best-known for the songs "Low Self Opinion" and "Liar ", which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the early 1990s....
), George Michael
George Michael

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
, Randy Newman
Randy Newman

Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
, Morphine
Morphine (band)

Morphine was an alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, in 1989....
, Eels
Eels (band)

Eels is an American Rock music band formed by singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as A Man Called E, Mr. E, or simply E....
, and others were also signed to the label.

The label was presided over by Lenny Waronker
Lenny Waronker

Lenny Waronker is a record producer for Warner Bros. Records....
 and Mo Ostin
Mo Ostin

Mo Ostin is a record executive, who has worked for several companies, including Verve, Reprise Records, Warner Bros. Records, and DreamWorks. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 by Paul Simon, Neil Young, and Lorne Michaels....
, who had previously ran Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
 up until the mid-1990s. In a quest to cut costs, Dreamworks SKG sold the label to Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
 (MCA's successor company) in October 2003. Despite high profile attention, the DreamWorks Records label ultimately failed to live up to full commercial expectation. With consistently lacking revenue, the label would eventually be dismantled, with much of its roster absorbed into Geffen Records in 2004. Its country music division, meanwhile, remained operational until January 29, 2006, when it was shut down by Universal Music Group Nashville
Universal Music Group Nashville

Universal Music Group Nashville is Universal Music Group's country music subsidiary. Some of the labels in this group include MCA Nashville Records Mercury Nashville Records, and Lost Highway Records....
.

DreamWorks Nashville

Between 1999 and 2005, DreamWorks also operated a division in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
 for country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 acts. Among the artists signed to the DreamWorks Nashville division were Jessica Andrews
Jessica Andrews

Jessica Danielle Andrews is an American country music singer. At age 15 in mid-1999, she made her debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "I Will Be There for You", from her debut album Heart Shaped World , released in 1999 on DreamWorks Records Nashville....
, Emerson Drive
Emerson Drive

Emerson Drive is a Canadian country music band which started out in Grande Prairie, Alberta in 1995 as 12 Gauge. The band is composed of Brad Mates , David Pichette , Danick Dupelle , Mike Melancon , and Dale Wallace ....
, Toby Keith
Toby Keith

Toby Keith Covel is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums ? 1993's Toby Keith , 1994's Boomtown , 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package "Noogies for Liberals" for various divisions of Mercury Records before ex...
, Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lawrence is an American country music artist. Signed to Atlantic Records in 1991, Lawrence debuted that year with the album Sticks and Stones , which produced his first chart single and first Number One hit in its Sticks and Stones ....
, Randy Travis
Randy Travis

Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
, Jimmy Wayne
Jimmy Wayne

Jimmy Wayne Barber is an United States musician who performs country music under the name Jimmy Wayne. He released his self-titled Jimmy Wayne in 2003 on the DreamWorks Records label....
, and Darryl Worley
Darryl Worley

Darryl Worley is an American country music artist. Worley has recorded five studio albums, four of which were released on the DreamWorks Records label, and one of which was released on 903 Music, a defunct label owned by Neal McCoy....
. After DreamWorks Records' dissolution, former executive Scott Borchetta formed Big Machine Records
Big Machine Records

Big Machine Records is an American independent record label specializing in country music artists. It was launched in 2005 by former DreamWorks Records executive Scott Borchetta....
 in late 2005, signing several country music acts to the label. Borchetta also signed Show Dog Records in partnership with Toby Keith, although Keith dropped his association with the latter label in 2006.

See also

  • List of DreamWorks Records artists
    List of DreamWorks Records artists

    Artists formerly signed to DreamWorks Records include the following:...
  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...


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