V2 Records (or V2 Music and V2 Benelux; V2 being an abbreviation for Virgin 2) is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007, sold...
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film V2 Records, a record label founded by Richard Branson V2 Radio, a radio station set up as a local successor to the UKRD Group station in Sussex V2.fi...
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Grandaddy. After V2 Records took over many of the artists, the remnants of Big Cat (UK) Records was sold in 2011. In 2018 Jungle Records purchased the residual...
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his V2 Records label to SSE for $15 million. Sheridan Square then merged all of its labels, including Artemis Records, into V2 North America. V2 North...
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1992). It now faces competition from Branson's new label: V2 Records. Branson sold Virgin Records to fund Virgin Atlantic which at that time was coming under...
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Steve Abbott (musician) (section V2 Records 1998–2002)
partner, Linda Obadiah, sold her 50% of Big Cat to Richard Branson's new V2 Records, Big Cat’s UK and US teams became the basis of the new company’s UK and...
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forty singles plus other featured appearances. As the first act signed to V2 Records, Stereophonics started officially releasing songs in 1996 with their first...
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needed] and sold it to Richard Branson's fledgling V2 Records. The label was shuttered in 2001. In 2006, V2 sold its American catalogue, including Gee Street...
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Chesnutt for Capitol Records. Two years later he played slide guitar on the V2 Records album, Deserter's Songs, by Mercury Rev. In 1996, he and Marky Ramone...
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Stereophonics (category V2 Records artists)
to get over 35 record companies in the UK interested in signing the Stereophonics. In May 1996,[citation needed] they signed with V2, the first artists...
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Sex Bomb (category V2 Records singles)
November 2021. Sex Bomb (UK CD1 liner notes). Tom Jones, Mousse T. Gut Records, V2 Records. 2000. CDGUT33.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite...
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press, including in a front cover article in NME. The band signed with V2 Records in July of that year. Their self-titled debut album appeared in October...
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2006 release. However, their label V2 Records instead changed it to January 2007 for a better publicity push. Then, V2 folded, and the band spent 5 months...
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band as a result of various disagreements with his bandmates. In 2003, V2 Records signed Epique to work with a band called Pre)Thing. They released their...
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Dave Matthews Band (category V2 Records artists)
vocals). After one independent live album, the band was signed by RCA Records and Griesar left the band to pursue as solo career. The band's 1994 debut...
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The White Stripes (category V2 Records artists)
the Record Industry. The band enjoyed its first significant success the following year with the major label re-release of the album on V2 Records. Its...
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The Black Keys (category V2 Records artists)
eventually leading to a record deal with major label Nonesuch Records in 2006. After self-producing and recording their first four records in makeshift studios...
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Tom Jones (singer) (category V2 Records artists)
with a voice as husky as it was pretty". He has sold over 100 million records, with 36 Top 40 hits in the UK and 19 in the US, including "It's Not Unusual"...
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Moby (category V2 Records artists)
Aaron A. Brooks. Following the dissolution of V2 Records in 2007, Moby signed a new deal with Mute Records to handle his American distribution. In 2007...
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The Any Day Now EP (section V2 Records)
was released through Elbow's first record label Ugly Man Records, as well as their second record label V2 Records. Both EPs each have a different track...
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Handbags and Gladrags (category V2 Records singles)
August 2021. Handbags and Gladrags (UK CD1 liner notes). Stereophonics. V2 Records. 2001. VVR5017753.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV...
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Would You...? (category V2 Records singles)
You...? (UK & Australian CD single liner notes). Touch and Go. V2 Records, Oval Records. 1998. VVR5003083.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in...
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Powell (Virgin Records) to Thorn EMI in 1992 and a few years later decided to launch a 'new Virgin Records'. This 'Virgin2' was set up as V2 Music in 1996...
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Whirlwind Heat (category V2 Records artists)
remaining trio recorded what would be the debut album not only for the band, but for White's label collaboration with V2 Records, Third Man Records. (White also...
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Madness (band) (category V2 Records artists)
release of the cover album The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 in August 2005 by V2 Records. During the sessions which produced the album, in mid-2005, guitarist...
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2004; it was re-issued as Out of a Dream on V2 Records in 2005. Federici performed on other artists' records as well, including those of Joan Armatrading...
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Lights Out (Sugarcult album) (category V2 Records albums)
album by American rock band Sugarcult, released on September 12, 2006 by V2 Records. On June 12, Lights Out was announced for release. "Do It Alone" was released...
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Grandaddy (redirect from Recorded Live Amongst Friends and Fidget)
several self-released records and cassettes, the band signed to Will Records in the US and later the V2 Records subsidiary Big Cat Records in the UK, going...
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Smoke & Mirrors (The Datsuns album) (category V2 Records albums)
Studio album by The Datsuns Released 2 October 2006 Genre Hard rock, garage rock revival Label V2 Records Producer The Datsuns The Datsuns chronology...
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About What You Know (category V2 Records albums)
Man Tate Released 29 January 2007 (2007-01-29) Recorded 2006 Genre Indie rock Length 36:32 Label V2 Records Producer Elliot James Little Man Tate chronology...
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