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La Giant Records è stata una etichetta discografica statunitense lanciata nel 1990 come una joint venture tra la Warner Bros. Records ed il produttore esecutivo Irving Azoff. Questo nome viene utilizzato come etichetta di proprietà della Warner Music Sweden, una filiale svedese del Warner Music Group .
Official website. www .giantrecords .se. Giant Records was launched in 1990 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Records and record executive Irving Azoff. Currently, this name is used as a Swedish label owned by Warner Music Sweden, a Swedish branch of Warner Music Group .
- Founding
- 1958–1963: Formation and Early Years
- Warner/Reprise 1963–1967
- 1967–1969: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
- 1969–1972: Kinney Takeover
- 1970–1979: The Ostin Era
- 1980–1988
- 1989–2004: The Time Warner Era
- 2004–2019: Warner Music Group
- 2019–Present: Warner Records
At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros. Pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. In 1928, the studio acquired several smaller music publishing firms which included M. Witmark & Sons, Harms Inc., and a partial interest in New World Music Corp., and merged them ...
Warner Bros. returned to the record business on March 19, 1958, with the establishment of its own recording division, Warner Bros. Records. By this time, the established Hollywoodstudios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance—the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a m...
In August 1963, Warner Bros. made a "rescue takeover" of Frank Sinatra's ailing Reprise Recordsas part of a deal to acquire Sinatra's services as a recording artist and as an actor for Warner Bros. Pictures. The total deal was valued at around US$10 million, and it gave Sinatra a one-third share in the combined record company and a seat on the Warn...
In November 1966 the entire Warner group was taken over by and merged with Seven Arts Productions, a New York-based company owned by Eliot Hyman. Seven Arts specialized in syndicating old movies and cartoons to TV, and had independently produced a number of significant feature films for other studios, including Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, as well as ...
In 1969, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was taken over by the Kinney National Company, headed by New York businessman Steve J. Ross, who would successfully lead the Warner group of companies until his death in 1992. The US$400 million deal created a new conglomerate that combined the Warner film, television, recording, and music publishing divisions with ...
Beginning back in 1967 with the signing of the Grateful Dead, Warner Bros. Records and its affiliate labels steadily built up a diverse and prestigious lineup of rock and pop artists through the 1970s, and earning a strong reputation as an "artists first" record company. Under the guidance of Edward West, vice-president of Warner Bros. Records Inc ...
The 1980s was a period of unprecedented success for Warner Bros. Records. The golden decade began with the success of singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, whose self-titled debut album went to No. 6 in the US and produced four charting singles, including the No. 1 hit "Sailing". He also won five major categories at the 1981 Grammy Awards, becoming ...
In 1989 Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications and merged the two enterprises to create Time Warnerin a deal valued at US$14 billion. After a long period of relative stability that was notable in the cutthroat American music industry, the death of Steve Ross in late 1992 marked the start of a period of major upheaval at Warner Bros. Records. R.E....
In 2003, amid management disputes, sagging share prices and rising alarm about the impact of digital file sharing, Time Warner decided to unload its music operations. In March 2004, Time Warner's music assets were acquired by a private equity group headed by Thomas H. Lee Partners, Lexa Partners (led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., who put up US$150 million...
On May 28, 2019, the label announced that it had changed its name to Warner Records, and unveiled a new logo—replacing the Warner Bros. shield with a wordmark and black circle (both partially cut off at the bottom). WMG explained that the new logo was meant to resemble the Earth, a record, and the Sun, and had "artful simplicity and impactful typog...
Label Code: LC 6211 / LC 06211. One of the myriad of major-label-backed independents that emerged in the early 1990s, Giant Records was founded in 1990 by manager Irving Azoff and was Warner Bros.’s replacement for Geffen Records, which had been bought by MCA earlier that year.
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Giant Records was launched in 1990 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Records and record executive Irving Azoff. Currently, this name is used as a Swedish label owned by Warner Music Sweden, a Swedish branch of Warner Music Group. In 1990, Giant became a subsidiary label for Warner Music Group.
Giant Records may refer to: Giant Records (Warner), a joint venture record label. Giant Records (independent), an independent record label. Category: Disambiguation pages.
Se stai cercando l'omonima etichetta discografica italiana, vedi . La Warner Records (in precedenza Warner Bros. Records) è un' etichetta discografica statunitense. Con l' Elektra Records e l' Atlantic Records faceva parte del gruppo WEA (dalle iniziali delle tre etichette), ora Warner Music Group .
