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Pete Waterman Entertainment (PWE) is the production company one-time pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 and dance 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...
 owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman
Pete Waterman

Peter Alan Waterman OBE is an England record producer, occasional songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast....
. The label, originally PWL, is most famous for being the home of hit record producers Stock Aitken Waterman
Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
.

After producing many hits for other record companies, PWL launched its own label in 1987
1987 in music

See also:* :Category:Record labels established in 1987...
 (PWL Records) with the balearic classic "I Just Can't Wait" by Mandy Smith
Mandy Smith

Amanda Louise Smith is an England dance-pop singer, former Model and Actor....
, although it peaked at #91.

As a record label, PWL enjoyed success with Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n artists such as Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 and Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan

Jason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK he has sold in excess of 3 million records, and his d?but album Ten Good Reasons was the highest selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million copies....
 and Holland
Holland

Holland is a name in common usage given to two regions in the western part of Netherlands. The name 'Holland' is also often mistakenly used to refer to the whole of The Netherlands....
's dance group 2 Unlimited
2 Unlimited

2 Unlimited was a Eurodance act formed in 1991. The project was the brainchild of Belgium producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde, and was fronted by a Netherlands duo, Hip hop music Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth....
.






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Pete Waterman Entertainment (PWE) is the production company one-time pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 and dance 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...
 owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman
Pete Waterman

Peter Alan Waterman OBE is an England record producer, occasional songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast....
. The label, originally PWL, is most famous for being the home of hit record producers Stock Aitken Waterman
Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
.

After producing many hits for other record companies, PWL launched its own label in 1987
1987 in music

See also:* :Category:Record labels established in 1987...
 (PWL Records) with the balearic classic "I Just Can't Wait" by Mandy Smith
Mandy Smith

Amanda Louise Smith is an England dance-pop singer, former Model and Actor....
, although it peaked at #91.

As a record label, PWL enjoyed success with Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n artists such as Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 and Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan

Jason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK he has sold in excess of 3 million records, and his d?but album Ten Good Reasons was the highest selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million copies....
 and Holland
Holland

Holland is a name in common usage given to two regions in the western part of Netherlands. The name 'Holland' is also often mistakenly used to refer to the whole of The Netherlands....
's dance group 2 Unlimited
2 Unlimited

2 Unlimited was a Eurodance act formed in 1991. The project was the brainchild of Belgium producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde, and was fronted by a Netherlands duo, Hip hop music Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth....
. As a production house they produced hits for English
England

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 artists such as Rick Astley
Rick Astley

Richard Paul Astley is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Astley is married to producer Lene Bausager and has one daughter. Astley has released or appeared on recordings that have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide....
 and Bananarama
Bananarama

Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
 on other record labels.

In the USA, PWL America was established in 1989 and specialized in hip-hop music
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....
. In 1992, it was renamed Chemistry Records Ltd., but it shut its doors in 1993. It was distributed in that territory by Mercury
Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group....
/PolyGram Records.

In the early 1990s, Pete Waterman formed a new label called PWL International in partnership with Warner Music. However with other projects taking up Waterman's time, his involvement in the label decreased, and PWL International Ltd. became the Warner label Coalition.

The record label is still in operation today and operates the label EBUL
EBUL

EBUL is a record label belonging to PWL and Jive/Zomba.EBUL was established by Pete Waterman from the ashes of his Eastern Bloc Records and Unity record labels....
 through Jive Records
Jive Records

Jive Records is a record label, based in New York City, owned by Sony Music Entertainment, and operates as a quarter of the Zomba Label Group....
 and Zomba.

Notable former PWL artists

  • Kylie Minogue
    Kylie Minogue

    Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
  • Dead or Alive
    Dead or Alive (band)

    Dead or Alive are a United Kingdom New Wave music band from Liverpool that rose to popularity during the 1980s, and evolved from the late 1970s band Nightmares in Wax....
  • The Reynolds Girls
    Reynolds Girls

    The Reynolds Girls were a British vocal duo, famed for their single "I'd Rather Jack" which was a UK top 10 hit in 1989. Comprising sisters Linda and Aisling , they were signed to the PWL label after giving Pete Waterman a demo tape....
  • Rick Astley
    Rick Astley

    Richard Paul Astley is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Astley is married to producer Lene Bausager and has one daughter. Astley has released or appeared on recordings that have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide....
  • Kakko
    Kakko (singer)

    Kakko is one of the pseudonyms of Yamagata Kakuko , a Japanese actress, TV presenter and former pop music singer. Yamagata was born September 23, 1969 in Osaka, Japan....
  • Steps
  • Boy Krazy
    Boy Krazy

    Boy Krazy was a New York City-based girl group that saw brief fame in 1993 as a one-hit wonder by the mainstream Pop world....
  • The Twins
  • Sinitta
    Sinitta Malone

    Sinitta is an American actress and singer who has lived in the United Kingdom most of her career. She is famed for her hit records in the 1980s including "So Macho", "Toy Boy", "Cross My Broken Heart" and a 1989 cover of "Right Back Where We Started From", and her close relationship with Simon Cowell....
  • Mandy Smith
    Mandy Smith

    Amanda Louise Smith is an England dance-pop singer, former Model and Actor....
  • Jason Donovan
    Jason Donovan

    Jason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK he has sold in excess of 3 million records, and his d?but album Ten Good Reasons was the highest selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million copies....
     (left in 1993)
  • Sonia
    Sonia Evans

    Sonia Evans , better known as just Sonia, is an England popular music singer from Skelmersdale, West Lancashire, who was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
     (left in 1991)
  • Hazell Dean
    Hazell Dean

    Hazell Dean is an UK dance-pop singer-songwriter, and record producer well known for her husky alto human voice timbre, and her chart-topper songs, "Whatever I Do ", "Who's Leaving Who?", "Turn It Into Love" and "Searchin' "....
  • Mel & Kim
  • Bananarama
    Bananarama

    Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
  • Sybil
    Sybil

    In antiquity, the oracle of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term "sibyls". In modern times, when "Sibyl " is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is "Sybil"....
  • Big Fun
    Big Fun

    | Name= A Pocketful of Dreams| Type= studio| Artist = Big Fun| Cover =| Released = 1990| Recorded = 1989-90| Genre = Synth pop Electronic music...
     (Dropped out in 1991)
  • 2 Unlimited
    2 Unlimited

    2 Unlimited was a Eurodance act formed in 1991. The project was the brainchild of Belgium producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde, and was fronted by a Netherlands duo, Hip hop music Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth....
  • London Boys
    London Boys

    London Boys were a Germany based, United Kingdom dance pop duet comprising Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller , both of whom were killed in an Eastern Alps car accident in Austria on 21 January 1996....
  • Sabrina Salerno
    Sabrina Salerno

    Sabrina Salerno is an Italian singer, showgirl, Model , actress and record producer....
  • Lonnie Gordon
    Lonnie Gordon

    Lonnie Gordon is a female Hi-NRG, House music and Soul music singer-songwriter from New York City The Bronx, who has scored many record chart chart-topper during the 1990s and 2000s....
  • Tina Cousins
    Tina Cousins

    Tina Cousins is an English people singer-songwriter and former fashion model. She has placed five single in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, both as a solo musician, and in collaboration with other artists....
  • Loveland
    Loveland

    Loveland may refer to:...
  • Opus III
    Opus III

    Opus III were a techno and house music musical ensemble from England who had success on the UK Singles Chart and on the United States Hot Dance Club Play record chart....
  • Anticapella
  • The Sheilas
    The Sheilas

    The Sheilas are a pop girl group who found fame with Stock Aitken Waterman, after they were featured in an advertising campaign for the car insurance company Sheilas' Wheels....


Chemistry/PWL America artists


  • B.O.X.
  • Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics
    Diamond D

    Diamond D is a Hip hop production and rapping from The Bronx, New York City and one of the founding members of legendary NY crew D.I.T.C.He started out as a DJ for Jazzy Jay back in the early 1980s and was at the same time perfecting his skills in beat making and turntableism, and together with parther rhyme partner MC Rob he was one half of...
  • Ed O.G. & da Bulldogs
    Ed O.G.

    Edo G, also known as Ed O.G. , is a hip-hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts....
  • Sylk Smoov
  • T.D.C.


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:...


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