Interscope Records
Interscope Records, founded 1989: jazz artists and albums on the label.
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. Based in Santa Monica, California, it is a division of the Interscope Capitol Labels Group. Interscope was founded in 1990 by Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field as a $20 million joint venture with Warner Music Group's Atlantic Records. It differed from most record labels by letting A&R staff control decisions and allowing artists and producers full creative control. Interscope's first hit records arrived in under a year, and it achieved profitability in 1993. Iovine was CEO and chairman until 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick. In 1992, Interscope acquired the exclusive rights to market and distribute releases from hardcore hip hop label Death Row Records, a decision that ultimately put the label at the center of the mid-1990s gangsta rap controversy.
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Interscope Records was founded by film producer Ted Field (through Interscope Communications, Inc.) and record producer Jimmy Iovine in 1989 as a small alternative label. In 1990, Warner Music Group purchased a 50% stake in Interscope Records to market and distribute their music products through Atlantic Records, a division of Warner Music, which, at the time, was a part of Time Warner.
In 1992, Marion "Suge" Knight's infamous "gangsta rap" label Death Row Records (2) joined the Interscope family. Death Row's first release was Dr. Dre's The Chronic album in December of 1992. November 1993 would see the biggest release for Interscope/Death Row, as Snoop Dogg released his debut album, Doggystyle, which went on to sell 3 million copies within several months of release.
In 1995, Warner Music Group (then known as WEA International) sold back its interest in Interscope Records. In 1996, MCA, Inc. (later to become Universal Music Group, the world's biggest record company) purchased Interscope Records and would see most of its future releases distributed through them.
In August of 1997, Interscope had completely separated itself from the once highly successful Death Row Record
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