Relentless Records

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Relentless Records
Parent company
Sony Music UK
GenreVarious
Country of originUK
Official websitewww.relentlessrecs.com

Relentless Records is a record label currently headed by co-founder

Re-Rewind" and B-15 Project's "Girls Like Us", Relentless has also published albums by Joss Stone, KT Tunstall, Union of Knives and Cage the Elephant
.

Ownership

Relentless Records was formally registered as a company on 1 December 1999.

Virgin Records in 2003, the label was sold to it in 2009 (when Virgin was at that time a label of EMI Records).[3]

Affected by the November 2011 dissolution of EMI Group (the parent company of Virgin Records), Virgin's recorded music business was sold to Universal Music UK, a division of Universal Music Group. Propitiously, Jobanputra had departed EMI in April 2011, with a deal returning control of the Relentless name to him whilst leaving the label's roster signed to the major.[3]

In January 2012,

Sony Music in the UK, reuniting Jobanputra with his former EMI/Virgin colleague Nick Gatfield.[5][6]

Artists currently signed to Relentless Records

Notable artists signed under Relentless include:

Artists formerly signed to Relentless Records

Notable artists formerly signed under Relentless include:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Welcome to Relentless Records". Retrieved 13 November 2013. Relentless Records is a boutique and independently minded record label providing a home for distinctive, creative talent.
  2. ^ "RELENTLESS RECORDS LIMITED". Companies House. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  3. ^ a b Complete Music Update (13 January 2012). "Relentless Records joins Sony Music". CMU. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Relentless Records to Sony Music". Room 64. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  5. ^ Smirke, Richard (12 January 2012). "Sony To Resurrect Relentless Records Label". Billboard. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Sony resurrects Relentless Records". Music Week. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2013.

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