Provident Label Group is a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....

 focusing primarily on Christian music in Franklin, Tennessee. The group handles its own physical distribution through its Provident-Integrity Distribution service. Provident Label Group is affiliated by ForeFront Records

ForeFront Records

ForeFront Records is a Christian Music record label founded in 1987 by Dan R. Brock, Eddie DeGarmo, Dana Key, and Ron W. Griffin. It was purchased by EMI in 1996 from current owners Dan R. Brock and Eddie DeGarmo and is now part of the EMI Christian Music Group.In 1998, ForeFront released a 2-CD...

, Sparrow Records

Sparrow Records

-Background:Sparrow Records was founded in 1976 by Billy Ray Hearn, then A&R director at Myrrh Records. Purchased by EMI in 1992, it is now part of the EMI Christian Music Group, and has been named by Billboard Magazine as "America's Best Christian Music Record Label"...

, and Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today...

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Provident Label Group

Current Labels

• Essential Records
  Essential Records (Christian)
  Essential Records is a Contemporary Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It is a division of a major label, Sony Music Entertainment.-History:...
  
  
• Flicker Records
  Flicker Records
  Flicker Records is a Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was founded by members of Christian rock group Audio Adrenaline. The label mainly focuses on rock/hard rock artists, though it also created a subsidiary, Big House Kids, for Christian children's music.The label was...
  
  
• Reunion Records
  Reunion Records
  Reunion Records is a Christian music record label based in Brentwood, Tennessee and operating under the Provident Label Group. The label was founded in 1982 by Dan Harrell and Mike Blanton.-History:...
  
  
  • Beach Street Records
    Beach Street Records
    Beach Street Records is a part of Reunion Records under the Provident Label Group. The label was founded in 2003 by Mark Miller, lead singer of the country band Sawyer Brown....
    
    
• Praise Hymn Soundtracks

Former Labels

• Brentwood Records
• Benson Music Group
  • Diadem Music Group
  • Benson Records
    Benson Records
    Benson Records was founded by Bob Benson & John T. Benson, beginning as the John T. Benson Music Publishing Company in 1902. The record label started out as Heart Warming Records and would come to house labels such as Impact Records, Greentree Records, RiverSong, StarSong and Home Sweet Home...
    
    
• Provident Special Markets

Provident-Integrity Distribution

In addition to its own labels, the distribution arm of Provident provides Christian-market distribution to these labels:

• 7Spin Music
  7Spin Music
  7Spin Music is an independent Christian record label based in Valparaiso, Indiana. It was founded by Peter Khosla in 2004. Sevenglory’s first single, "Just Me" was the label's first top ten single to chart at R&R magazine.-Current:*Sevenglory...
  
  
• Avista Records
• BMG Classics (now Sony Masterworks)
• Boneyard Records (Official label of T-Bone)
• Cedarmont Kids
• Comin Atcha Distribution
• Creative Trust Workshop
• Cross Movement Records
  Cross Movement Records
  Cross Movement Records is an American based Christian hip hop record label, founded by and based on the Christian hip hop group, The Cross Movement. CMR, founded in 1997, had an agreement with BEC Recordings. In 2005 they made a license agreement with Reach Records' Lecrae. CMR are to release his...
  
  
• Galilee of the Nations
• GospoCentric Records
  GospoCentric Records
  GospoCentric Records is an Inglewood, California based Gospel music record label started as an independent label by Vicki Mack Lataillade and Claude Lataillade in 1993. The label rose to prominence in the 90's largely on the runaway success of gospel artist Kirk Franklin. The label has grown to...
  
  
  • B-Rite Music
• Gray Matters
  Gray Matters (record label)
  Gray Matters is a record label/imprint structured underneath the Nettwerk Music Group. The label was founded in 2007 by Jars of Clay band members Dan Haseltine, Stephen Mason, Matt Odmark, and Charlie Lowell. The creation of the label was in response to the band's record contract's ending with...
  
  
• INO Records
  INO Records
  INO Records, also known as Fair Trade Services, is an American record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, specializing in Contemporary Christian music . It is distributed through Sony Music Entertainment, and was owned by Integrity Media until June 2011. When Integrity Media sold its assets...
  
  
• Integrity Gospel
• Integrity Music
• New Haven Records
• RCA Records
  RCA Records
  RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
  
  
• Track Star Records
• Verity Records
  Verity Records
  Verity Records is an American gospel music-focused record label founded in 1994. The label is a now major component and namesake of Verity Gospel Music Group , the Gospel group operated by Jive Label Group, which in turn is owned by Sony Music Entertainment.-Artists :* 21:03* Crystal Aikin*...
  
  
• Wind-up Records
  Wind-Up Records
  Wind-up Entertainment, Inc. is a record label based in New York City. It was formed in 1997 by Alan Meltzer, former owner of CD One Stop, following his 1996 purchase of Grass Records. Wind-up is currently the largest independently-owned record label in the world...
  
  

See also

• Sony Music Entertainment
  Sony Music Entertainment
  Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
  
  
• List of Record Labels
• Christian Record Labels