Naxos

Naxos, established in Hong Kong in 1987, has grown to become one of the world's largest classical music labels. Label C...

Essential Media Mod

Sony Music

Main label of Sony Music Entertainment. Use this entry for releases from between 1991 and 2005 and 2008 onwards that sh...

Supraphon

Czech label (formerly Czechoslovakia until 1992) with focus on classical music, and with large catalog of pop, jazz, and...

IMPORTS

Columbia

Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound. Founded in January 1889 in Washington DC as the Columbia Ph...

BIS

Swedish label founded by Robert von Bahr in 1973. Label Code: LC 03240. For credits given to the label, please use BIS...

Sony Classical

Sony classical, crossover, and soundtrack music label. Sony Classical was known formerly as CBS Masterworks Records, and...

Universal Music Group

Please note the takeover of the PolyGram group did not happen until early 1999 so if a label from that group (Mercury, P...

Legacy

Sometimes indicated as Legacy Recordings. not to be confused with Legacy Recordings. Sony Music set up Legacy recording...

BMG

IMPORTANT NOTE: On releases with a BMG logo there are usually logos of other label brands present as well. Please enter...

[PIAS]

Please use PIAS in uppercase. PIAS is an acronym for Play It Again Sam and works as label and distributor. Please only...

Chandos

British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester. It was founded in 1979 by Brian Couzens, and...

Frémeaux & Associés

French label Label Code: LC 27174 Founded by Claude Colombini & Patrick Frémeaux for Jazz, Spoken word, Blues, Gospel...

RCA

Multinational label. Label Code: LC 0316 / LC 00316. Also appears as "RCA Records" or "RCA Record" (Australia/New Zeal...

Atlantic

US label. Label Code: LC 0121 / LC 00121. In 1947, Ahmet Ertegun, Herb Abramson and his wife Miriam Abramson (maiden n...

Decca

Multinational label; also appears as "Decca Records". Label Code: LC 0171 / LC 00171 This is the LABEL to use, regardl...

Polydor

Multinational record label established in 1913, currently under ownership by the Universal Music Group. Label Code: LC...

Centaur Records

US label, founded in 1976; one of the oldest and largest independent classical labels in the U.S.A. Label Code: LC 6530...

Music On Vinyl

Please add all branded labels to releases on Music on Vinyl Music on Vinyl is a Dutch vinyl only record label that rere...

MEM

Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon, or Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, has been the main classical music label of German record compa...

cpo

German classics label founded in 1986; cpo is an acronym for Classic Production Osnabrück (or "classic produktion osnabr...

Brilliant Classics

Dutch classical label with an "affordable price policy" for all its releases: boxes of the complete works by Bach, Mozar...

Not On Label

This page is for releases which don't have a label: Items such as self-released albums, demos, limited edition tour merc...

ZYX Music

Parent label of independent German record company ZYX Music GMBH & Co. KG with many sublabels; founded in 1971 by Bernha...

Smithsonian Folkways

In 1987, following the death of Moses Asch (owner of Folkways Records), the Smithsonian Institution acquired from his es...

EMI

EMI was the label of UK company EMI Records Ltd., also known as EMI Records. After a hiatus, EMI was relaunched as a la...

Jasmine Records

In 1982 the Jasmine Label was created producing LPs and Cassettes. The new label initially focused on licensed Jazz and...

Epic

A division of Sony BMG Music Entertainment [2004-2008] A division of Sony Music Entertainment [2008-present] Epic Re...

Capitol Records

Please note, many Capitol Records issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a la...

Warner Bros. Records

Founded in 1958 by Jack Warner as a soundtrack factory for Warner Bros. movie studios, Warner Bros. Records and its fami...

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra Records was founded in 1992 by long-time music fan, Brian Perera. Brian acquired his love for the music busine...

Universal Music

Please note: any releases on former PolyGram owned labels such as Vertigo, Island, A&M, Mercury, Polydor, Decca, Philips...

Mercury

Multinational label; also appears as "Mercury Records" or "Mercury Record". Label Code: LC 0268 / LC 00268 A PolyGram...

SteepleChase

Danish jazz label Label Code: LC 3064 / LC 03064 Founded in 1972 by jazz enthusiast Nils Winther who started out reco...

Universal

Please note the takeover of the PolyGram group did not happen until early 1999 so if a label from that group (Mercury, P...

DUX Recording Producers

DUX Recording Producers was founded in 1992 by Małgorzata Polańska and Lech Tołwiński, graduates of the Sound Engineerin...

ECM Records

German independent label co-founded by producer Manfred Eicher, Manfred Scheffner and Karl Egger in Munich (Pasing) in 1...

Rhino Records (2)

Also appears as "Rhino" only. Rhino Records started as a record store in 1973 in Westwood California, U.S.A., founded b...

Ace

Also appears as "Ace Records" or "Ace Records & Tapes". UK label conceived in the 70s by Ted Carroll, who started out s...

Curb Records

After MGM Records had been sold in 1974, Mike Curb (who was president) launched his own independent record label. It was...

Island Records

Multinational label Label Code: LC 0407 / LC 00407 Island Records (often using a logo that omits "Records") was named...

Virgin

Please note, many Virgin issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it i...

Berlin Classics

Edel's folder for classical music. This German label regularly reissues from the defunct East German ETERNA label archi...

UNIVERSAL JAPAN

Parlophone

Multinational label. Label Code: LC 0299 / LC 00299 Please note, many Parlophone issues also carry an EMI logo. This i...

Hyperion

An independent British classical music label, founded in 1980 by Edward Perry, now run by his son Simon Perry (5). For...

ARC Music

ARC Music was a rebranding of Eulenspiegel using the same logo and Labelcode: LC 5111 / LC 05111 (in fact the company LC...

Bear Family Records

German label Label Code: LC 5197 / LC 05197 Bear Family Records, founded in 1975 by Richard Weize, is a label speciali...

MDG

German classical label. Label Code: LC 6768 / LC 06768. Name derived from the associated record company Musikproduktio...

Wagram Music

French independent label and distributor, ranked among the top 10 independent European labels. Wagram Music covers all m...

Panton

Czechoslovak record label since 1967. Label Code: LC 1430 / LC 01430. Owned by the publishing house of modern Czech an...

Tyrolis

Metal Blade Records

Independent heavy metal label started in Los Angeles, CA on February 1, 1982 by Brian Slagel. Known for launching the c...

Tactus

Tactus Records (Italian Casa Discografica Tactus) is an Italian classical music recording label based in Bologna, Italy....

Sony

Multi-faceted brand that usually appears on releases as label (one of the logos pictured here), as distributor or publis...

Warner Classics

The Warner Classics imprint originated from the old Warner Classics International division of the Warner Music Group, be...

Signum Classics

British label Label Code: LC 15723