An Introduction To Records Companies.

The music industry is lead by 4 major multinational record labels.

• Universal

•Hollywood Undead
•The Black Eyed Peas
•Sex Pistols











• Sony Records

•Whitney Houston
•Leona Lewis
•Kelly Clarkson






•Warner Brother

•Biffy Clyro
•Disturbed
•The Devil Wears Prada











• EMI


•Robbie Williams
•Snoop Dogg
•Paul McCartney








Major-independents are companies that started out as independent companies but were signed on by majors. These production companies usually specialize in a particular genre of music.

• Columbia Records


•Bob Dylan
•Pharrell Williams
•Duke Ellington











• Island Records

•Jessie J
•Elton John
•Katy Perry











• Syco Records


•One Directions
•James Arthur
•Alexandra Burke









• Virgin Records

•Janet Jackson
•Keith Richards
•Mariah Carey
















Then there are also independent labels, these people usually choose to not associate themselves with majors or major-independents, but if they do, they involvement with each other is usually fairly limited. Examples of independent record labels include:


Lapfox Trax



Lapfox Trax is unusual, because all the music is made by one producer, but he delves into different styles of music, creating and releasing under different aliases. Below I will list 3 examples of LapFox aliases and the style of music they produce.

•NegaRen: Happy Hardcore, Speed Dance
•Mayhem: Electro-House Inspired
•Renard: Breakcore and Raggacore.










Domino Records
















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