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Epic Records is 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...
. It is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation of America, being one of the World music market. According to Variety, on October 2, 2008, Sony had completed the acquisition of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the Sony BMG joint venture, and Sony BMG was renamed Sony Music Entertainment....
. The label was founded in 1953 as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 label, and was eventually expanded to several genres of music. The label manages several imprints as well.

was launched originally as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and classical music label in 1953 by CBS
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
. Its bright-yellow, black and blue logo became a familiar trademark for many jazz and classical releases.






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Epic Records is 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...
. It is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation of America, being one of the World music market. According to Variety, on October 2, 2008, Sony had completed the acquisition of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the Sony BMG joint venture, and Sony BMG was renamed Sony Music Entertainment....
. The label was founded in 1953 as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 label, and was eventually expanded to several genres of music. The label manages several imprints as well.

History

Epic was launched originally as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and classical music label in 1953 by CBS
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
. Its bright-yellow, black and blue logo became a familiar trademark for many jazz and classical releases. This has included such notables as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Juilliard String Quartet
Juilliard String Quartet

The Juilliard String Quartet is a european classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York. The original members were Robert Mann and Robert Koff on violin, Raphael Hillyer on viola, and Arthur Winograd on cello; Current members are Joel Smirnoff and Ronald Copes on violin, Samuel Rhodes on viola, and Joe...
, Antal Doráti
Antal Doráti

Antal Dor?ti Order of the British Empire was a Hungary-born conducting and composer.Dor?ti was born in Budapest, where his father was a violinist with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra....
 conducting the Hague Philharmonic and George Szell
George Szell

George Szell , originally Gy?rgy Sz?ll or Georg Szell, was a Hungary-born American conducting and composer. He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, and for the recordings of the standard classical repertoire he made in Cleveland and with other orchestras....
 conducting the Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
.

By 1960, the label's musical base was expanded to include all genres of music and became an avenue for Columbia's A&R department to sign newer artists and avoid "overstuffing" the larger sister Columbia label, which at the time leaned on signing better known or already established artists. Many of Epic's signings were newer pop, Rock & Roll, and R&B artists in nature, where Columbia had better known "mainstream" popular artists.

Ten years later, Epic earned its first gold records and developed into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
, R&B and 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....
. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton
Roy Hamilton

Roy Hamilton was an American singer who achieved major success in both the R&B and pop charts in the 1950s.He moved to Jersey City in 1943, studied commercial art, had operatic and classical voice training, and was a heavyweight Golden Gloves boxer, before joining gospel quartet The Searchlight Singers....
, Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton

Bobby Vinton...
, The Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five

The Dave Clark Five were an England pop rock group. It was the second group of the British Invasion, after The Beatles, to have a record chart hit record in the United States ....
, The Hollies
The Hollies

The Hollies are an England Pop music band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s....
, Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette

Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an United States and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
, Donovan
Donovan

Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
, The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an England Rock music band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page....
, Lulu
Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Order of British Empire, , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scotland singer-songwriter, actress, model and television personality, who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day....
, and Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
. Several of the British artists on the Epic roster in the 1960s were the result of Epic's distribution deal with EMI
EMI

The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
 in which Epic recordings were issued by EMI on the Columbia
Columbia Graphophone Company

The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom....
 label before the contract with EMI expired at which point CBS Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
 formed a British Epic Records branch to market Epic label material.

In the 1960s, Epic oversaw the smaller subsidiary CBS labels including Okeh Records
Okeh Records

Okeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States in 1918 in music; from the late 1920s on, it was a subsidiary of Columbia Records....
, Date Records. and distributed Ode Records
Ode Records

Ode Records was a record label, started by Lou Adler in 1967 in music after he sold Dunhill Records to ABC Records. It was distributed by Columbia Records until 1969....
.

Epic has a long history of many successful acts. During the late 1960s and 1970s, its success extended to include Sly & the Family Stone
Sly & the Family Stone

Sly & the Family Stone is an Music of the United States Funk music, soul music and rock music band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music....
 (66), Charlie Rich
Charlie Rich

Charlie Rich was an United States. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country music, and gospel music genres....
 (67), Edgar Winter
Edgar Winter

Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock music....
 (70),Steve Vai
Steve Vai

Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an United States instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980....
 (70-present), REO Speedwagon
REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon is an United States Rock music band that grew in popularity in the Midwestern United States United States during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s....
 (71), The Jeff Beck Group
The Jeff Beck Group

The Jeff Beck Group were an England rock band formed in London in January 1966 by ex-Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck. Their innovative approach to heavy-sounding blues was a major influence on popular music during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
 (71), Johnny Nash
Johnny Nash

Johnny Nash is an African-American popular music singer-songwriter, best known for his unexpected 1972 comeback chart-topper, "I Can See Clearly Now"....
 (72), ABBA
ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
 (in the UK) (72), The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are a Grammy Award United States rhythm and blues/soul music group. They are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, Rhythm and blues, rock...
 (73), Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent

Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an United States hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes....
 (75), Boston
Boston (band)

Boston is an United States Rock music band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists....
 (76), Heart
Heart (band)

Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
 (on sister label Portrait Records
Portrait Records

Portrait Records is a sister record label of Epic Records. Cyndi Lauper signed to Portrait, but was released via Epic.Portrait began in 1976 in music as a sister label to Epic, with initial signings Joan Baez, Burton Cummings and the McCrarys....
) (76), Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick is a United States Rock music band formed in the 1970s and consisting of Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E. Carlos ....
 (76), The Clash
The Clash

The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
(76), Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
, and The Jacksons/Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Epic made stars out of the likes of Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an United States rock music musician and actor of theatre and film. He is noted for the Bat out of Hell album trilogy that he created consisting of Bat out of Hell, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, and several fa...
, Adam Ant
Adam Ant

Adam Ant is an English musician, who gained popularity as the lead singer of 1980s New Wave music/post-punk group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist....
, Culture Club
Culture Club

Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
, Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan was an United States blues-rock guitarist, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work have been released....
, The B'zz, Electric Light Orchestra
Electric Light Orchestra

Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
, Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
, Europe
Europe (band)

Europe is a Sweden Rock music band formed in Upplands V?sby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal music and hard rock elements....
, Sade
Sade Adu

Helen Folasade Adu, Order of the British Empire, , better known as Sade , is a British people singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer....
, Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross

Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an United States rhythm and blues and soul music singer-songwriter, and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times....
, Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
, and Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
 (through the Portrait label.) Other successful acts included Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson

Jessica Ann Simpson is an United States singer, actress, and reality television who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums....
, Shakira
Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a Prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the mid-1990s....
, Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple is a Grammy Awards of 1998 United States singer-songwriter. She gained popularity through her 1996 studio album Tidal , especially with the single "Criminal ", and because of the music video made for it....
, Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lynn Lopez , popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American Golden Globe-nominated actor, Grammy Award-nominated singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer....
 and Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore

Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore is an United States singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. She was raised in Florida. Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen pop albums So Real , I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore ....
.

Other artists signed to Epic include Juliet Simms of Automatic Loveletter , Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Bedingfield

Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British people pop music and songwriter.Based in Book St., London, Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance music/electronic music group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle....
, Menudo
Menudo

Menudo can refer to:* Menudo , boy band** Menudo , three of their albums went by this name**...
, Brandy, Anastacia
Anastacia

Anastacia is a multi-platinum American singer and songwriter. Anastacia has been highly successful in Europe, Latin America, Oceania, Asia, South Africa and Australia but has not had as much success in her native United States....
, Alexz Johnson
Alexz Johnson

Alexz Johnson is an up and coming singer-songwriter and vocalist also known as a Gemini Award-winning Canada actress for playing the lead role of Jude Harrison in the hit teen drama series Instant Star, where her performances have been three times nominated for a Gemini Award, winning the award in October 2008....
,The Fray
The Fray

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, Incubus
Incubus

An incubus is a male demon that has sexual intercourse with sleeping women.Incubus can also refer to:In film:*Incubus , a number of films with a similar titles:...
, Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio

Alkaline Trio is a punk rock band from Chicago, consisting of Matt Skiba on guitar/Singing, Dan Andriano on bass guitar/Singing, and Derek Grant on Drum kit/backing vocals....
, Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock , drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy....
, Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte

Good Charlotte is an American band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. They took their name from the children's book called "Good Charlotte: The Girls of Good Day Orphanage," written by Carol Beach York....
, Live
Live (band)

Live is an United States alternative rock/post-grunge band from York, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, comprising Edward Kowalczyk , Chad Taylor , Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Gracey ....
, Boxer
Boxer (band)

Boxer was a Rock music band formed by keyboardist Mike Patto of Spooky Tooth and guitarist Ollie Halsall from Patto, in 1975 and were signed to the Virgin Records....
, AC/DC
AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
, KISS
Kiss

A kiss is the touching of one person's lip s to another place, which is used as an expression of affection, respect, greeting, wiktionary:farewell, good luck, romantic affection or sexual desire....
, Duran Duran
Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
, Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991. The band's lineup, unchanged since formation, consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk....
, Kat DeLuna
Kat DeLuna

Kathleen Emperatriz "Kat" DeLuna is an American pop music/contemporary R&B singer of Dominican Republic heritage. Her mother, born in the Dominican Republic, owns a bakery shop in downtown Newark....
, Chevelle
Chevelle

Chevelle is an American hard rock band that formed in 1995 in Grayslake, Illinois, Illinois. The band originally comprised three brothers: Pete Loeffler , Sam Loeffler , and Joe Loeffler ....
, Editors
Editors

Editors are a British indie rock band based in Birmingham, who formed in 2002. Previously known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, the band consists of Tom Smith , Chris Urbanowicz , Russell Leetch and Ed Lay ....
, Prong, Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready ....
, Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles

Sara Beth Bareilles is an United States singer-songwriter and pianist.She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song ", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart....
, Lamb Of God
Lamb of God

Lamb of God is one of the titles given to Jesus in the New Testament and consequently in the Christian tradition. It refers to Jesus' role as a sacrificial lamb atoning for the sins of man in Christian theology, harkening back to ancient Temple in Jerusalem sacrifices in which a domestic sheep was slain during the passover , the blood was s...
, Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies

Suicidal Tendencies is an American hardcore punk and Heavy metal music band. They were formed in Venice, Los Angeles, California, in 1981 by the leader and only permanent member, singer Mike Muir....
, Macy Gray
Macy Gray

Macy Gray is an American contemporary R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, famed for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis as well as Keith Harris as Orville the Duck....
, B*Witched
B*Witched

B*Witched were an Republic of Ireland girl group who enjoyed success in both Europe and North America between 1998 and 2000, releasing two albums and eight singles, all of which made the UK Top 20....
 (via Glowworm Records
Glowworm Records

Glowworm Records is a subsidiary of Epic Records. Former teen pop music group B*Witched were signed to the label. Glowworm was co-owned by Kim Glover who has just recently launched another all girl band called City Girls under her other label BXB7...
), Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an United States hip hop group from the Glenville, Cleveland section of Cleveland, Ohio. They are best known for their fast-paced, aggressive rapping style and harmonizing vocals....
 (via Ruthless Records), Tori Amos
Tori Amos

Tori Amos is a pianist and singer-songwriter of dual United Kingdom and United States citizenship. She is married to England sound engineer Mark Hawley, with whom she has one child, Natashya "Tash" L?rien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000....
, Nicole Bennett,tenacious d
Tenacious D

Tenacious D is a Satire rock band formed in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of musicians and actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass .Tenacious D formed in 1994 when the members performed as an acoustic duo....
, FireHouse, multiplatinum selling artist Céline Dion
Celine Dion

C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record....
, Low Vs Diamond
Low vs Diamond

Low vs Diamond is an United States Rock music band formed in 2002 by Lucas Field, Howie Diamond, and Tad Moore while they were students at the University of Colorado....
, The White Tie Affair
The White Tie Affair

The White Tie Affair is a pop rock/electronica band from Chicago, Illinois. The members consist of: Sean-P , Chris Wallace , Tim McLaughlin , Ryan Cook , and Ryan McClain ....
, Vedera
Vedera

Vedera are an indie rock/art rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri.Vedera was formed in 2004 by singer and guitarist/pianist Kristen May and lead guitarist Brian Little, who had previously played together in a different band for about a year....
, Augustana, Margot & The Nuclear So and So's,Red and Scouting For Girls, also Go:Audio.

Epic is part of the Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation of America, being one of the World music market. According to Variety, on October 2, 2008, Sony had completed the acquisition of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the Sony BMG joint venture, and Sony BMG was renamed Sony Music Entertainment....
 company. Sony Corporation bought all of CBS's labels in 1988. A joint venture between its music division and BMG
BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
 happened in 2004, and Sony purchased BMG's stake to take hold of the whole company in 2008.

Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. It was founded in 1990 in music by Sony Music Entertainment to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated labels....
 continues to reissue the label's classic and historical albums.

In March 2007, Epic, along with Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
, signed an agreement with Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Sony Music Entertainment Japan

is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Corporation and independent from Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry....
 to handle that company.



Imprint labels

Past and present imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 labels of Epic Records include:
  • Immortal Records
    Immortal Records

    Immortal Records was an independent record label out of Los Angeles, California. Founded by Happy Walters in 1995 in music, the label had helped launched the careers of such influential acts as 30 Seconds to Mars, Korn and Incubus over the years....
     (defunct)
  • 550 Music
    550 Music

    550 Music is a currently defunct unit of Sony Music Entertainment, which operated through Sony Music's Epic Records division while in activity....
     (defunct)
  • MJJ Music (defunct)
  • Epic Records Nashville — Formed for country music artists. Disestablished May 2006, some artists transferred to Columbia Records
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
     Nashville.
  • Epic Street – Formed for hip-hop
    Hip hop music

    Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
     artists.
  • Daylight Records
    Daylight Records

    Daylight Records is an United States record label, and subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment....
  • Koch Records
    Koch Records

    E1 Music , the primary subsidiary of E1 Entertainment LP, is the largest independent record label in the United States. It is also distributed by the Universal Music Group in Europe and in Asia under the name E1 Universal....
     - partially purchased in 2007
  • Beluga Heights - Established By Producer Jonathan "J.R." Rotem
  • DC Flag Records
    DC Flag Records

    DC Flag Records is a record label owned and run by Joel Madden and Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte. The label is an imprint of Epic Records....
  • Glowworm Records
    Glowworm Records

    Glowworm Records is a subsidiary of Epic Records. Former teen pop music group B*Witched were signed to the label. Glowworm was co-owned by Kim Glover who has just recently launched another all girl band called City Girls under her other label BXB7...
  • Hidden Beach Records – Specializing in R&B and Soul
    Soul music

    Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the African American culture through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, Secularity testifying." The genre occasion...
  • Okeh Records
    Okeh Records

    Okeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States in 1918 in music; from the late 1920s on, it was a subsidiary of Columbia Records....
     - For reissues of Okeh label material.
  • Portrait Records
    Portrait Records

    Portrait Records is a sister record label of Epic Records. Cyndi Lauper signed to Portrait, but was released via Epic.Portrait began in 1976 in music as a sister label to Epic, with initial signings Joan Baez, Burton Cummings and the McCrarys....
     (defunct)
  • Ruthless Records (defunct) – Hip-hop label formed in 1987 by Eazy-E
    Eazy-E

    Eric Lynn Wright , better known by the stage name Eazy-E, was an American Rapping, Hip hop production, and record executive from Compton, California....
     and Jerry Heller
    Jerry Heller

    Jerry Heller is best known for managing West Coast of the United States rap group N.W.A. and the founder, Eazy-E. He is co-founder and CEO of Ruthless Records ....
  • Work Records
    Work Records

    Work Records was a record label run by Sony Music that was the replacement for Sony's Chaos Recordings. The label released works by new artists and rising stars through Epic Records or Columbia Records in some countries like Australia....
     (defunct) – also known as '"WORK" and "The WORK Group". Formerly operated as Chaos Recordings.
  • Modern Art Records


Epic Records artists


Epic Records Executives

  • Amanda Ghost
    Amanda Ghost

    Amanda Ghost is a singer and songwriter from London, England. After an initial period in which she performed as a solo artist, she formed a band which performs under her name and of which she is the lead singer....
     - Epic Records President
  • Nick Raphael - Epic UK Managing Director
  • Jo Charrington - Epic UK Head of A&R


See also

  • 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:...


External links

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