About Columbia Record Company
Columbia Records is a premier recording label, which is under the
ownership of Sony Music Entertainment,
Columbia Records is one of the oldest and premier recording label
which gave birth to many famous and worldwide known artists. It is owned by
Sony Music Entertainment, which is operating under the Columbia Music Group. It
is oldest brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to
traduce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records
went on to release records by an array of notable singers s, and bands. From
1961 to 1990, its recordings were released outside the U.S. and Canada on the
CBS Records label (for Columbia Broadcasting System, its parent from 1938 to
1988) before adopting the Columbia name in most of the world.
It didn’t gain its success immediately as was originally the local
company run by Edward Easton, distributing and selling Edison phonographs and
phonograph cylinders in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Delaware, and derives
its name from the District of Columbia, which was its headquarters. During the
whole of its period of existence it has been bought and sold many times and
eventually is now owned by Sony Music Entertainment
It is one of Sony Music's three flagship record labels with the
others being Epic Records and RCA Records.
Until 1989, Columbia Records had no connection to Columbia
Pictures, which used various other names for record labels they owned,
including Colpix and later Arista; rather, it was connected to CBS, which stood
for Columbia Broadcasting System, a broadcasting media company which purchased
Columbia Records in the late 1930s, and which had been co-founded in 1927 by
Columbia Records itself. Though Arista was sold to BMG, it would later become a
sister label to Columbia Records through Sony Music; both are connected to
Columbia Pictures through Sony Corporation of America, worldwide parent of both
the music and motion picture arms of Sony.
To sum it all up, Clumbia pictures have been and is
still considered to be one of the most successful record labels which is
operating famous and worldwide known artists and bands which include:
