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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 Concert Hall Society was founded in 1946 by Samuel and David Josefowitz to produce classical music records, distributing them through a mail-order club. In 1951 Greystone Press inaugurated the American Recording Society, a classical music record club based on the company's book club model.
Britannia Music Club (1969–2007) was a British mail-order company owned by PolyGram which sponsored the Brit Awards.The company was acquired by Universal Pictures as part of PolyGram in 1998, and closed in 2007.
They followed the same model of offering LP recordings of popular classical works at discounted prices, which they achieved by selling direct to members by mail order and by sourcing older recordings under licence. Reports suggested that record clubs helped to stimulate interest in classical music and increase sales overall. [8]
Early 10" jazz title World Record Club disc in original universal printed fablothene sleeve.. The World Record Club Ltd. was the name of a company in the United Kingdom which issued long-playing records and reel-to-reel tapes, mainly of classical music and jazz, through a membership mail-order system during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Metallica's self-titled album is the highest selling record under Nielsen SoundScan, selling over 17 million copies. This is a list of best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era.