Columbia Records | |
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Parent company | Sony Music Entertainment (record label) |
Founded | 1888 (until 1894 as a subsidiary of the North American Phonograph Company) |
Founder | |
Distributor(s) | Sony Music Entertainment (in the US), Columbia Label Group (Outside the US) |
Styles | Various |
Country of origin | United-States |
Location | New York City, New York |
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Columbia Records is an American flagship recording label, under the ownership of Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company—successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, being the first record company to produce recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers, instrumentalists, and bands. From 1961 to 1990, its recordings were released outside the U.S. and Canada on the CBS Records label (for Columbia Broadcasting System, its parent from 1938 to 1988) before adopting the Columbia name in most of the world.
Subsidiaries[]
- Kemosabe Records (record label)
- Loud Records (record label)
List of Rappers on the label[]
- Big L (rapper)
- Big Pun (rapper) (former)
List of Rap Groups on the label[]
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