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Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group. In the US , the label had offices in New York City and Chicago .
Jive House - Short-lived house label formed in the mid-nineties by Jive Records. Jive Records - Founded in 1981, focusing on hip-hop and R&B music. Jive Label Group - When BMG sold its half of the Sony BMG merger back to Sony in late 2008, Zomba Label Group began to be rebranded as Jive Label Group.
Clive Ian Calder (born 13 December 1946) is a South African-British billionaire record executive and businessman primarily known for co-founding the Zomba Group with Ralph Simon, and its subsidiary Jive Records. As of October 2021, Calder has an estimated net worth of US$5.5 billion. [1]
During Shaquille O’Neal’s ascent to professional basketball legend status, he was also a rapper with a multimillion-dollar record deal. In the 1990s, the four-time NBA championship ring holder ...
The duo was a great success for Jive, helping make rap music more accessible. Jive continued to support rap artists into the nineties, with the aforementioned groups and the signing of new acts. KRS-One, the primary force behind Boogie Down Productions, released a string of solo albums with Jive beginning with Return of the Boom Bap in 1993. [15]
JIVE Records was moved under RCA Music Group, minus those artists who were moved to Epic. [7] Some of JIVE's urban artists such as Usher moved to RCA, while other JIVE pop artists, including Britney Spears and Pink, stayed under JIVE as the label moved under the RCA Music Group. [8] [9] Peter Edge is CEO of the company. [10]
RCA/Jive Label Group (sometimes stylized as RCA/JIVE Label Group) was an American record label group, owned by Sony Music Entertainment and representing the merger of the RCA Music Group and JIVE Label Group. The umbrella group was formed in 2007 under the name BMG Label Group, was rebranded as RCA/Jive Label Group in 2009.
This buyout led to labels formerly under BMG ownership, including Arista, Jive, LaFace and J Records into former BMG and currently Sony's co-flagship record label, RCA Records, in 2011 and led to the relaunch of BMG as BMG Rights Management. Arista Records would later be revived in 2018.