Warner Bros
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"An American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the "big three" recording companies and the third largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME)"
Warner Bros. Records was founded in March 1958 as an arm of Warner Bros. Pictures, whose “shield” logo was adopted by the fledgling label and has been used by the company ever since. In 2004, when Warner Music Group was sold by Time Warner and became the world’s largest independent major music company, it was agreed that Warner Bros. Records would continue to use the Warner Bros. name and logo for 15 years
Signed Artists
- Foals - i researched this English rock bands website previously (https://6123as.blogspot.com/2020/04/generic-research-textual-analysis-3.html) and they have won 8 awards in total including the 'best group' award at the Brits in 2020 whilst also being nominated for many more proving their success with Warner Records
61 years after the founding of Warner Bros. Records, the renowned label was rebranded as Warner Records across the globe. Following Aaron Bay-Schuck joining as U.S. Co-Chairman & CEO in October 2018, Tom Corson being appointed U.S. Co-Chairman & COO in January 2018, and Phil Christie being named President of the UK label in 2016. The name change also follows the U.S. company’s recent move to a new, state-of-the-art headquarters in downtown LA’s Arts District.
- Red Hot Chilli Peppers - This American rock band are one of the most successful all time bands currently signed with Warner. They have won 25 awards and have been nominated for 80 winning 3 Brit awards.
- Dua Lipa - An English singer/songwriter that has always been signed to Warner since her career started in just 2015. in that short amount of time her debut album peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart, and yielded nine singles, including the UK number-one single "New Rules", which also peaked at number six in the US. In 2018, she won 2 Brit Awards: for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.
Interesting Articles
- In 2018 Warner Music UK owned the BRIT Awards in London – winning six out of eight possible domestic awards - https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-artists-dominate-brits-winning-75-of-uk-focused-awards/
- ‘Warner Records cares about having the right artists, not having the most artists.’ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/aaron-bay-schuck-warner-records-cares-about-having-the-right-artists-not-having-the-most-artists/