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Key facts
- Parent company
- Universal Music Group , Previously , Philips (1961–1972), PolyGram (1972-1998)
- Founded
- 1945 ; 81 years ago ( 1945 )
- Founder
- Irving Green Berle Adams Arthur Talmadge Ray Greenberg
- Distributors
- Republic (United States) EMI (United Kingdom, Japan) Island Def Jam / Barclay (France) Island (pre-2014 catalog)
- Genre
- Various
- Country of origin
- United States
- Location
- Chicago , Illinois, (1945–1980), New York , New York (1980–present)
- Official website
- mercuryrecords .com mercurykx .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- record label
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- New York City
- Parent organization
- Universal Music Group
- Official website
- www.mercuryrecords.com
- Image
- Mercury Records logo (2022).png
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- inception
- 1945-00-00
- Commons category
- Mercury Records
- location of formation
- Chicago
- distributed by
- The Island Def Jam Music Group
- short name
- Mercury
- social media followers
- 54009
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Encyclopedic overview
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. Mercury Records released rock, funk, R&B, doo wop, soul, blues, pop, rock and roll, and jazz records. In the United States, it is operated through Republic Records; in the United Kingdom and Japan (as Mercury Tokyo in the latter country), it is distributed by EMI Records.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mercury Records” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.