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Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records (a division of CBS, Inc. ), and had a significant market presence in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
The Jazztone Society was the first independent mail-order jazz record club in the United States. Columbia's Record Club, Columbia House, which included a jazz division, was the second. Jazz at the Philharmonic, established in 1955 and launched the following year by Norman Granz, was the third. [8]
In 1991, Sony partnered with Time-Warner in a joint venture that enabled Columbia House to market both companies' music and video offerings. In 2002 the enterprise was sold to an investment group, [ 30 ] and three years later was acquired by BMG Direct Marketing (an outgrowth of RCA Direct Marketing, successor to the RCA Victor Record Club ...
Throughout the 1990s, corporate CD clubs like Columbia House and the BMG Music Service dumped millions upon millions of compact discs on a consumer public ready to replace their vinyl collections ...
In 2009, during the re-consolidation of Sony Music, Columbia was partnered with its Epic Records sister to form the Columbia/Epic Label Group [79] under which it operated as an imprint. In July 2011, as part of further corporate restructuring, Epic was split from the Columbia/Epic Group as Epic took in multiple artists from Jive Records.
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Rock music legend John Mellencamp is coming to Columbia for a concert, promoters said Monday.. Mellencamp, who first became well known under the stage name John Cougar, will bring his “Live And ...
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