Record Label Research

Having short listed certain songs that we would potentially like to produce a music video for, it felt wise to do some research into them, finding about their record labels.

Gabrielle Aplin 

Parlophone, record label for both of Gabrielle Aplin, This record label is is part of Warner Bro's Music Company(Since 2013, was previously self owned). This record label has been around since 1896. It is an English brand that has just recently expanded to the US, due to the ownership of Warner Bro's. This company has proved rather successful as in 1964 as the label had 7 singles reach number one and spent 40 out of 52 weeks at the top spot in the album charts.
Parlophone had worked with the likes of the Beatles for 9 of their records, Coldplay, Connor Maynard, Cilia Black, David Guetta, Pink Floyd, Queen, with the list continuing on and on.
Evaporate was released on 13th May 2013 on her album 'English Rain'.

Sia Furler 

Sia has been around since 1993, and has had a range of different record labels including Flavoured Records, Columbia, Universal International, Hear Music, Monkey Puzzle and her most recent label 

Inertia, Monkey Puzzle and RCA. 

RCA is an american record label part of Sony Music Entertainment. It releases multiple genres of music including pop, rock, hip-hop, R&B, blues and Jazz. It was founded in 1901, being  the second oldest record label company in the US, First is Columbia.

RCA is record labels for Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Cristina Aguilera, Foxes, Kelly Clarkson and multiple over artists. 

 

Chvrches

Virgin Records is Chvrches most recent record label for the album they released on the 25th September 2015. Virgin Records is an English Record Label founded by Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell and Tom Newman in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Spice Girls and many others. Wholly owned by Universal Music Group after its purchase of EMI in 2012, UMG absorbed its British operations to create Virgin EMI Records on March 2013, which absorbed Mercury Records UK. 

They have been labels for artists such as 30 Seconds To Mars, Atomic Kitten, Victoria Beckham, Daft Punk, Bastille, You Me at 6, and many more. 

 

Pvris 

Pvris are a reasonably new band, with the release of one album so far, which was with Rise records. They are an independent USA record label. It was founded in 1991 but after releasing 7 records, the label went on hiatus until 1999, where he released his first record in 2000. Rise Records' releases are distributed in the U.S. by Alternative Distribution Alliance, by ADA's parent company Warner Music Group in many European countries like Germany, United Kingdom and Italy, and comprises bands and solo artists

They also release records for artists such as Of mice and men, The devil wears prada, Crown the empire, Miss may I and multiple more rock artists.