For other uses, see Island Records (disambiguation).
Island Records
Parent company
Universal Music Group
Founded
4 July 1959; 64 years ago (1959-07-04)
Founder
Chris Blackwell Graeme Goodall Leslie Kong
Distributor(s)
Self-distributed (US) EMI/Island UK (UK) Universal Music Group (international) Island Def Jam (France) Island Philippines (Philippines) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (most of Island Pictures film library)
Genre
Various
Location
United States
United Kingdom
Official website
islandrecords.com
Island Records is a Jamaican multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica,[1] and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.
Island Records operates four international divisions: Island US, Island UK, Island Australia, and Island France (known as Vertigo France until 2014). Current key people include Island US president Darcus Beese, [2] and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to its significant legacy, Island remains one of UMG's pre-eminent record labels.
^Perrone, Pierre (1 May 2009). "Island: The record label that changed the world". The Independent. UK. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
^"Island Records President Darcus Beese Awarded OBE". The Voice. 17 November 2014. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
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