V2 Records (or V2 Music; V2 being an abbreviation for Virgin 2) is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007, sold to PIAS in...
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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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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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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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Martyn LeNoble (category Atlantic Records artists)
Monsters (2004, Mute Records) Keith Caputo – A Fondness for Hometown Scars (2008, Suburban Records) Soulsavers – Broken (2009, V2 Records) Mark Lanegan Band...
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Steve Abbott (musician) (section V2 Records 1998–2002)
when released by Universal Japan. Abbott joined Richard Branson's new V2 Records as Head of International, helping to set the company up worldwide, moving...
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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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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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Virgin Music Group (category American record labels)
Virgin Music Spain Virgin Music Sweden Virgin Music UK Virgin Music US V2 Records Jacqueline Saturn (2021-present) Artists signed to Virgin Music Group:...
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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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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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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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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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Dave Matthews Band (category V2 Records artists)
"Steven Miller records Dave Matthews Band". Archived from the original on December 9, 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2007. "Nas' New Record Features LeRoi...
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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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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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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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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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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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Ky-Mani Marley (category Gee Street Records artists)
became the subject of a bidding war.[when?] He signed with Gee Street/V2 Records in 1997 where he completed a collaboration with label mate P.M. Dawn on...
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Elbow (band) (category V2 Records artists)
needed] Elbow's debut album Asleep in the Back was released in May 2001 on V2 Records. The album was written over the course of six years, and contains six...
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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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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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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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Michael Hutchence (category V2 Records artists)
INXS from 1977 until his death in 1997. The band sold over 50 million records worldwide, making them one of Australia's highest selling music acts of...
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The Knife (category V2 Records artists)
siblings Karin and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records. They gained a large international following in response to...
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Crazy Town member Rust Epique. Signed to V2 Records, the group released one demo and one major-label record, which came out after the lead singer's death...
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the Decca label, Linfair Records also distributes V2 Records' releases and some independent labels. However, Linfair Records' releases outside Taiwan...
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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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