Major Labels

Shorty

Does anyone know where I could get a family tree type diagram, or something similar, of all the major labels and their subsidiaries?
Showing the links between them.

Thanks

Kali

From Universal Musics website:

MERCURY RECORDS
Bludgeon Riffola, Blue Mountain, Casablanca, Def Jam, Def Jam Germany, Def Soul, Fontana, Island, Jambco, Philips, Precious, Rocket, Star-Club, Subsonic, Vertigo, Motor music, A&M,Dreamworks, Elektro Motor,Geffen, Go!Beat, Hot Action Records, Interscope, Motor, Republic, Stockholm Records.

POLYDOR:
Decca, Delphine, Deram, Druck, MCA, Musik für Dich, Perspective, Polar, Polydor, Remark, Rüssl, Stella, What´s Up, Zeitgeist.

UNIVERSAL RECORDS
Freizeit, Guppy, Hysteria, Kedar Entertainment, Kontor, Manifesto, Mo´Bizz, Motown, Popstar, Radioactive, SKG, Strictly Rhythm, Superstar, Twisted Records, Universal, Urban, Vandit.

UNIVERSAL CLASSICS, JAZZ & FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT:
Classics/Crossover: Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Philips Music Group, Archiv Produktion, L*Oiseau-Lyre, Gimell, Point Music, Argo, Amadeo, Mercury Living Presence, Metronome, Imaginary Road, Eloquence.

JAZZ: Blue Thumb, Boutique, Chess, Decca Jazz, ECM, ECM New Series, EmArcy, Geffen Jazz, GRP, Harmolodic, Impulse, Jazzland, MCA Jazz, MPS, Rune Grammofon,Talkin* Loud, Verve; Diverse Label: Weltmusik.

FAMILY: Deutsche Grammophon Family Entertainment (Kinder & Literatur): DG Junior, DG Fur kinder, DG Hörfest, DG Wort, Adès, Philips Kinder Classics, DG Literatur, DG Hörbuch, Literarisches Archiv; Karussell Family: Abakus, Abakussi, Chicada, Clever Teddy, Ludger Edelkötter, Hallo, Karussell, OH-HA, Pocket Money Video, Spacy Tracy, Polydor Kinder (Vertrieb), Kinderwelt (Vertrieb).

And thats just them, so its gonna be pretty hard to find a diagram in fairness

And what about the hundreds of independent lables?

mike65

Feck! Thats an alarming list, hardly anyone is an independent anymore unless you count "boutique"/bedroom CDR machine
outfits!

Mike.

BuffyBot

And when you add the list owned by Sony, AOL Time Warner etc etc...it gets bigger and bigger..and scarily smaller in terms of diversity of ownership.

gurramok

Originally posted by BuffyBot
And when you add the list owned by Sony, AOL Time Warner etc etc...it gets bigger and bigger..and scarily smaller in terms of diversity of ownership.

Its called a cartel, some say it affects the quality of music that is released and price of cd's sold at your local. Of course they must be dreaming

Kali

Affects the quality of the music? Perhaps... most of the smaller subsidaries act on their own, albeit with a restrained budget and a specific target audience in mind... this may lead to the situation where they are very unwilling to take on more original and non-pigeon holed acts.


Anyway.. the only other main ones I'd know would be that Warner own Warner Records, Atlantic Records and Elektra, Atlantic being the more mainstream of the three, than Warner.. and with Elektra sitting just slightly more leftfield again, Elektra (afaik) was actually founded by a talent scout from Atlantic in the early/mid-60s who got extremely pissed off with their constant demands and decided to form his own company

Sony own Columbia as well, but Columbia releases are nearly always marked Sony/Columbia these days anyway.

Shorty

Thanks for the information Kali. I'll just have to do something with a diagram myself. Independent labels is something else, but as you said there's a lot. Again, thanks.