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At this time, Bertelsmann Music Group acquired a minority share of the label and began to distribute its records directly. [12] Weiss became chief executive of Jive Records that year. [13] Jive opened branches in Chicago and had also become a premier label in the genres of hip hop and R&B with the success of acts like D-Nice, E-40, UGK, A Tribe ...
By early 2008, the BMG Label Group was said to consist of RCA Records, Jive Records, J Records, LaFace, Arista, Volcano Entertainment, Verity, GospoCentric and Fo Yo Soul. [3] [4] In April 2008, Jive head Barry Weiss was promoted to chairman and CEO of the whole BMG Label Group, a position he still held since the groups rebranding.
Dance Jive - Dance label active in the early 2000s. EBUL - Record label owned by Pete Waterman Entertainment Ltd. and Jive. The label was largely used to release material by Steps. [101] Jive Afrika - Created in 1984 for release of South African material (most prominently, Hugh Masekela). Jive House - Formed in the mid-nineties for house music.
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Neil R. Portnow is an American music industry executive who served as the chairman and CEO of The Recording Academy and MusiCares from 2002 to 2019. Prior to that, Portnow was the vice-president of the West Coast division of Jive Records and Arista Records.
In 2009 the group was renamed as RCA/Jive Label Group under Sony Music, and in October 2011, Jive Records, as well as the whole Jive brand, was discontinued, with their most successful artists being moved to RCA Records and partly to Epic Records. [9] In May 2018, The Washington Post reporter Geoff Edgers wrote "The Star Treatment", a lengthy ...
Battery Records was an American record label that served as the dance sublabel of Jive Records, and was active for a short time during the mid-1990s.The label was mostly known for releasing music by the Swedish Eurodance group Rednex in North America, namely its novelty hit "Cotton Eye Joe", as well as Insane Clown Posse's third studio album, Riddle Box.
This is a list of artists who have once recorded for Jive Records. Listed in parentheses are names of Jive-affiliated labels, if applicable, under which the artist recorded. Contents: