Website research two.

This is my Perezi under the name 'anne media35'.

Record Label.

To our track 'Nine2Five' the record label that we have chosen is a UK based company called Polydor Records which is owned by Universal Music Group. Universal Music Group is one of the three Major labels, the other two being Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. Polydor was founded in Germany after the first world war. In 1946, Polydor became a popular music label and since then it has tried to keep afloat with new artists, signings and singles. In 1998, PolyGram was purchased by Seagram and absorbed into its Universal Music Group. Polydor also has another branch since 1994 called Polydor's Nashville, Tennessee division which specialises on country music.

In the early 1970's, the label had large incomes form successful UK bands such as Slade, The Who and The Jam. Since then it has remained one of the strongest labels in the country with artists such as Take That, Girls Aloud, The Saturdays, Lawson and an Indie roster through the imprint with acts like Kate Nash and Snow Patrol. It is also the UK label for American-based acts under Interscope-Geffen-A&M such as Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas, Pussycat Dolls, Snoop Dog, Gwen Stefani, 50 Cent, Lana Del Rey and Lady Gaga.

Polydor launched Fascination records in the spring of 2006 which is a music label dedicated to pop music. Girls Aloud and Sophie Ellis-Bextor were transferred to the new label and groups like The Saturdays were created. Fascination also signed up teen pop artists from US label Hollywood Records such as the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and the Scene and Demi Lovato. In 2008, Polydor obtained distribution of The Rolling Stones' back catalogue as well as new releases.

Our artists record labels.

Lady Sovereign was signed to Casual Records (2004-2005), Chocolate Industries (2005-2006) and Midget Records in 2009 to present. She was also signed a well known record company, The Island Def Jam Music Group between 2005 and 2008.
The Island Def Jam Music Group is a U.S record label located in New York, Amreica and was formed in 1999 when Universal Music Group merged two of its daughter companies Def Jam Recordings and Island Records as a result of the manager between Universal Music and PolyGram labels. The company is also affiliated with Lost Highway Records.
Island Records concentrates on Pop and Rock artists whereas Def Jam has more of the RnB, Hip-Hop and Urban acts. Since 2011, The Chairman and CEO is Barry Weiss. The record company distributes its own records in the U.S, in the U.K via Mercury Records and Univeral Music Group worldwide.
The Island Def Jam Music Group is one of the two Universal Music Group branch labels in the U.S that markets the works of mainstream Pop, Rock and Urban performers. The other branched company is Interscope-Geffen-A&M.


The Ordinary Boys were signed to MCA Music, Inc and B-Unique, they were active from 2002-2008 and after a break they have been active since 2011.
MCA records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc. which later gave way to Universal Music Group.
The company has a country division, MCA Nashville Records which is an active imprint of Universal Music Group Nashville, this country music label is the only operation by MCA that still goes on.
B-Unique Records is based in London as a record label which was founded in 2001 by Mark Lewis and Martin Toher. B-Unique Records has been a division of Atlantic Records UK since February 2008.
The record label deals with a variety of acts which range from Rock to Pop to RnB. Its distributors are Warner Music UK and Universal Music Group.







All of the record labels which our artists are signed to, are in some way managed by The Universal Music Group (UMG) and their headquarters are in Santa Monica, California and their Revenue was at $6 billion in 2010 and has been rising since. This record label is a global music company which is also a subsidiary of the French based media conglomerate Vivendi, The Universal Music Group is also the largest of the big three music companies. It also owns the Universal Music Publishing Group making it the second largest  music publishing company in the world. The company was founded in 1934 as Decca Records USA, MCA Music Group Entertainment was formed in 1989. The first UMG incarnation was from MCA in 1996 and the second UMG incarnation was from PolyGram in 1998. Universal music was originally attached to Universal Pictures until 2004 with the acquisition of Vivendi's Vivendi Universal Entertainment by General Electric's NBC. Steve Barnett was appointed as Chairman and CEO from November 2012 after formally serving as COO of Columbia Records. The Universal Music Group also co-developed Vevo, designed for music videos which are of a higher quality than those on YouTube.

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