Record Labels

Record Labels

Big Record labels are companies in the music business that own smaller record labels. Record labels manage artists and sell their recorded music.

Big Record Labels:

•Warner Bros. Recordings and they manage Chris Brown, Craig David, P Diddy and Flo Rida.

•Universal Music Group, they manage artists like Coco Lee, Nine Days and Mandy Moore.

•Sony Music Entertainment is probably the biggest record label in the UK and they manage Jenifer Lopez, Jls, and Jordin Sparks.


Sony Music Entertainment owns smaller record labels such as Date Records, who manages Pitbull, Oasis, R Kelly and Ricky Martin. Sony also own a company called Work Records who manage, Jamiroquai, Jennifer Lopez, Diana King and Midnight Oil. They have also promoted films under the name of Song Pictures Enertainment and have produced films such as Spiderman and The Karate Kid

Universal Music Group owns a Record Label called Loud Records, and they manage artists like David Banner, Method Man, Mobb Deep and Xzibit. Another Record label they own is called Def Jam Recordings who own quite a few famous artists, these include, Kanye West, N-Dubz, Ne-Yo, Rihanna and Jeremih. Universal have also branched off into differant forms of media, like film. Universal Pictures has been responsible for films such as You, Me and Dupree, Leatherheads, Hellboy 2 and the Golden Army and The Kingdom.

Warner Bros. Recordings own loads of small record labels but not many famous artists compared to completive Big Record Labels, one of the companies is called Beluga Heights Records, who manage Sean Kingston, Jason Derulo and Iyaz. Another smaller record label owned by Warner is called BME records who currently manage 4 artists, Lil John, Oobie, Shawty Putt, and Johy Seedz. Warner Bros dont just focus on music, they also specialize in TV shows and films. Some of the films and TV shows they have produced are Supernatural, One Tree Hill, The OC, Harry Potter and Jonah Hex.

Independent Record Labels- is a record label that doesn’t have the funding of a major record label, most bands and artists begin on independent labels.


Chemikal Underground is a small independent record label founded in 1994 in Glasgow, by the rock band The Delgados. It was set up to release their first single, Monica Webster- Brand New Car.

Another independent record label, Imaginary Records, was created by a man called Alan Duffy. They release allot of tribute songs.

Postcard Recordings is a Glasgow-based independent record label founded by Alan Horne in 1979 for a couple of artists, called Orange Juice and Josef K to help their releases.