Hollywood Records:
Hollywood Records is a record label owned by the Walt Disney Company. It mainly focuses on pop music. The label was started in 1990 and initially distributed by Elektra Records in the US and Canada until 1995 when distribution switched to PolyGram (Universal Music Group]] in 1999). Hollywood Records also releases many film soundtracks from films made by Disney or Disney-owned film studios. it focus particularly on Disney channel characters; a lot of film trailers on Disney Channel are released by Hollywood, such as High School Musical. The label's first signing was the Party, a pop group composed of members of the 1989 revival of The Mickey Mouse Club.
Together with Lyric Street Records, Mammoth Records, and Walt Disney Records, it is, as of 2008, part of the Disney Music Group.
[edit] Hollywood Records artists
[edit] Former Hollywood Records artists
[edit] Hollywood Records In Europe & Australia
In the Europe and Australia, Hollywood Records currently releases acts such as Jesse McCartney, and Aly & AJ through the EMI label, however in the past it was distributed independently through Edel Records for Duran Duran's Pop Trash album and had a sub-label called Tr1be in the early 1990s.
[edit] Hollywood BASIC
 Hollywood BASIC [sic] was Hollywood’s short-lived hip-hop subsidiary, run by Dave Funkenklein, which existed from 1990 to 1995. It did not survive the distribution transition its parent made to PolyGram Records, and all of its recordings were deleted, save for those by Organized Konfusion, which were repressed under the new deal. It was the first label to record DJ Shadow, releasing his "Lesson 4" (a reference to Double Dee and Steinski) as the B-side of a 1991 single by Lifers' Group, a hip hop group composed of convicts serving sentences at the Rahway Prison in New Jersey. It also released his Legitimate Mix on the B-side of a single by the group Zimbabwe Legit in 1992.[1] Other notable releases came from Organized Confusion, whose challenging second album Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994) is widely acclaimed.[2] The label was also home to Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, although, following the shooting and killing of Charizma in 1993, the music the duo recorded for the label was not released. This would later inspire Peanut Butter Wolf to found Stones Throw Records in order to make this music available.[3]
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[edit] Hollywood Records Executive Bios
- SVP/General Manager - Abbey Konowitch
- Abbey Konowitch is currently General Manager of Hollywood Records. Before joining MCA, Konowitch was General Manager at Maverick Records. He was formerly associated with the artist Alanis Morissette. Before Abbey was formerly employed by cable network MTV as its Senior Vice President of Music & Talent. In his current role, Abbey has worked to create and cultivate a roster of pop and rock acts.
- SVP Of Promotion - Justin Fontaine
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[edit] References
- ^ Peter Shapiro, Rough Guide to Hip-Hop, 2nd ed., Rough Guides: London, 2000 (p. 102).
- ^ Peter Shapiro, Rough Guide to Hip-Hop, 2nd ed., Rough Guides: London, 2000 (p. 291).
- ^ Peter Shapiro, Rough Guide to Hip-Hop, 2nd ed., Rough Guides: London, 2000 (pp. 349–351).
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