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Columbia Records
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
Official Website

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.

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List of Rappers on the label[]

List of Rap Groups on the label[]

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