PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the...
42 KB (4,352 words) - 18:41, 9 July 2024
PolyGram was sold to Seagram, which owned Universal Pictures and Universal Music Group (UMG), for $10 billion. Seagram sold off some of PolyGram's assets...
47 KB (2,580 words) - 07:32, 23 June 2024
known as MCA Music Publishing until it merged with PolyGram in 1998 when Seagram acquired PolyGram for $10.4 billion. PolyGram's music business was merged...
14 KB (1,190 words) - 17:57, 27 February 2024
Verve Records (redirect from Verve Music Group (PolyGram))
owners of PolyGram had earlier acquired. Verve Records became the Verve Music Group after PolyGram was merged with Seagram's Universal Music Group in 1999...
14 KB (1,487 words) - 19:31, 12 May 2024
Island Records (redirect from Island/PolyGram Records)
Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989...
39 KB (4,682 words) - 19:28, 6 July 2024
Kiss discography (section Music videos)
certifications – Kiss". Music Canada. "Kent Music Report No 341 – 5 January 1981 > Platinum and Gold Albums 1980". Kent Music Report. Retrieved December...
56 KB (1,828 words) - 12:44, 15 July 2024
by Gramophon-Philips Group (PolyGram) in 1971. It has been known as Universal Music México since 1999, following PolyGram's merger with UMG through the...
5 KB (491 words) - 03:45, 29 April 2024
Alain Levy (section PolyGram France 1984-1988)
United States divisions of PolyGram including PolyGram Music Group, PolyGram Video, PolyMedia, PolyGram Special Markets, PolyGram Merchandising, Independent...
9 KB (1,111 words) - 22:22, 14 May 2024
Tears for Fears discography (category Pop music group discographies)
Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 6, no. 45. 11 November 1989. p. VIII. Elemental: "Top 10 Sales in Europe" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 10, no. 28...
39 KB (1,678 words) - 12:36, 26 June 2024
UMG Philippines (redirect from MCA Music Inc. (Philippines))
rights to Polygram; and Chuaying was its first CEO. In 1998, PolyGram N.V. was purchased by Seagram's and was merged into MCA Inc., and PolyGram Music Group...
18 KB (1,249 words) - 10:29, 2 July 2024
The Style Council discography (category Pop music group discographies)
Council head PolyGram releases" (PDF). Music Week. 23 November 1985. p. 36. Retrieved 26 October 2021. "Channel 5 puts on the style" (PDF). Music Week. 25...
22 KB (393 words) - 22:35, 22 June 2024
The Cure discography (category Rock music group discographies)
Geffen Records. They have also released twelve video albums and forty-four music videos. Formed in 1976, the Cure grew out of a band known as Malice. Malice...
57 KB (1,991 words) - 18:19, 8 June 2024
Genesis discography (category Rock music group discographies)
School, where they drew on contemporary pop, soul, classical and church music influences to write their own songs. They attracted the interest of former...
48 KB (1,550 words) - 01:40, 13 July 2024
Universal Music Group. In May 1998, Seagram purchased PolyGram and merged it with Universal Music Group in early 1999. Seagram was eventually sold to French...
110 KB (8,931 words) - 02:18, 12 July 2024
PolyGram. Label was closed in 1998 when PolyGram, within its Polish subsidiary was brought by Seagram and Universal Music Group was formed. PolyGram Polska...
4 KB (329 words) - 02:40, 29 January 2021
Lucian Grainge (category British music industry executives)
Two years later he became an A&R director for MCA Records. He set up PolyGram Music Publishing in 1986 and joined Polydor as general manager of A&R and...
31 KB (2,696 words) - 06:57, 22 June 2024
A Night in London (category Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers)
Knopfler released on VHS tape and Laserdisc in 1996 by PolyGram Music and on DVD in 2003 by Universal Music. The setlist includes songs from Knopfler's first...
3 KB (253 words) - 03:01, 14 June 2024
Philips Records (redirect from PolyGram Classics & Jazz)
After the sale of PolyGram to Vivendi/Seagram, all PolyGram-labels - including Philips and Decca - became part of the Universal Music Group. The Philips...
20 KB (2,532 words) - 21:21, 23 June 2024
"Big Six": Sony Music and BMG had not yet merged, and PolyGram had not yet been absorbed into Universal Music Group. After the PolyGram-Universal merger...
85 KB (8,526 words) - 03:37, 15 June 2024
Kathy Mattea discography (category Country music discographies)
singles, 27 music videos and has made 19 additional album appearances. Under PolyGram and Mercury Records, Mattea's first two albums were releases: her eponymous...
36 KB (1,458 words) - 14:16, 3 July 2024
The Fat Boys (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
Brrr, Watch 'Em! (MCA Home Video) 1988 - 3×3 (PolyGram Music Video) Steve Huey. "The Fat Boys". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-12-05. Hunt, Dennis (October 2...
40 KB (3,348 words) - 08:28, 7 July 2024
Priscilla Chan (singer) (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
Cantopop scene in 2013, when she signed to Universal Music Hong Kong again with the relaunch of the PolyGram label in Hong Kong. Chan then successively released...
106 KB (10,354 words) - 06:01, 30 June 2024
POLYGRAM BUYS RUSSIAN ENTERTAINMENT GROUP - The New York Times". Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2024. "Universal Music Russia...
5 KB (345 words) - 23:16, 1 July 2024
Trust and Live Aid. In 1996 he accepted the post of chairman and CEO at PolyGram Music and Film. He was also appointed chairman and CEO of the newly created...
2 KB (242 words) - 14:55, 18 December 2023
Camel discography (category Rock music group discographies)
British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 23 June 2022. Type Camel in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. "Music Week" (PDF). p. 49....
13 KB (167 words) - 16:48, 24 June 2024
Blancmange discography (category Pop music group discographies)
Spectrum, Sony, PolyGram Music Video Formats: VHS, Betamax, LaserDisc Hello Good Evening Released: November 1984 Label: PolyGram Music Video Formats: VHS...
22 KB (482 words) - 14:34, 22 April 2024
Dru Hill (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
copies by May 1999. After PolyGram (parent company of Island) was acquired by Seagram on December 10, 1998, thus PolyGram's music division was merged with...
30 KB (3,161 words) - 20:07, 27 June 2024
Stone Cold Rhymin' (category Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers)
Music Awards. All tracks composed by Marvin Young, Matt Dike, and Michael Ross except where otherwise noted. All tracks published by PolyGram Music except...
8 KB (614 words) - 11:18, 16 May 2024
Martin Kierszenbaum (category Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers)
Dog. The band existed 1985–1994. Kierszenbaum then got a job at the PolyGram Music Group mailroom. During 1989-1991 he worked as an international publicity...
9 KB (931 words) - 00:32, 28 March 2024
Jean-Michel Jarre (redirect from Interior Music)
BBC, retrieved 26 May 2009 Rendez-Vous Houston – A City in Concert, PolyGram Music Video, 1989 Paris La Défense – A City in Concert, Genesis, 1992 Concert...
99 KB (9,132 words) - 04:04, 8 July 2024