Sony Records
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Sony Records is a record label courtesy of Columbia, Epic, American Recordings and Lattimore Beats. It has many divisions, including the preceding. As with other labels, other divisions may be region or genre-specific. Other divisions of Sony include Harmony Records.
This label first founded in 1988.
Sony Records is used in Japan by the local branch in place of Columbia, where that name is used by another company.
[edit] Artists
- Blood, Sweat and Tears (Columbia)
- Aerosmith (Columbia)
- Amerie (Columbia)
- The Ataris (Columbia)
- The Beastie Boys (Def American)
- Jeff Beck (Epic)
- Cheap Trick (Epic)
- Cheyenne Kimball (Epic)
- The Clash (Epic)
- Corrosion of Conformity (Columbia)
- LL Cool J (Def American)
- Crazy TDavis (Columbia)
- Dedric Lattimore (LattimoreBeats)
- Destiny's Child (Columbia)
- Bob Dylan (Columbia)
- Bryan Kearney (Columbia)
- Lucas Grabeel
- Glasses Malone (Columbia)
- Incubus (Epic)
- Jennifer Lopez (Epic)
- Shane Charles (To Be Confirmed)
- Billy Joel (Columbia)
- Journey (Columbia)
- Judas Priest (Columbia)
- lostprophets (Columbia)
- Manic Street Preachers (originally Columbia, later transferred to Epic)
- The Offspring (Columbia)
- Ozzy Osbourne (Epic)
- Our Lady Peace (Columbia)
- Pearl Jam (1991-2003 Epic) (2003-Present J Records)
- The Presidents of the United States of America (Columbia)
- Public Enemy (Columbia)
- Santana (Columbia)
- Joe Satriani (Epic)
- Jessica Simpson (originally Columbia, transferred to Epic)
- The Side Street Doormats (Epic)
- Shakira (Epic)
- Shut Up Stella (Epic)
- Silverchair (Epic)
- Slayer (Def American)
- Three 6 Mafia (Columbia/Hypnotize Minds)
- Will Smith (Columbia)
- System of a Down (Def American)
- Steve Vai (Epic)
- Stevie Ray Vaughan (Epic)
- Switchfoot (Columbia)
- Vendetta Red (Epic)
- Roger Waters (Columbia)
- Weather Report (Columbia)
- Jim Jones (Sony/Diplomats)
- DMX (Sony/Columbia/Ruff Ryders)
[edit] Divisions
- Sony urban music, used to sign-on artists in the Urban genre
