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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.
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.
Record companies saw lower royalties from sales through record clubs than from sales through stores and other means. In addition, that the clubs could give away up to one free record for every record sold resulted in about half as much revenue for record companies as they might get through other distribution channels. [ 33 ]
American indie record labels SST Records, Twin/Tone Records, Touch and Go Records, and Dischord Records presided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominated the American underground scene to the more diverse styles of alternative rock that were emerging. [7] Minnesota bands Hüsker Dü and The Replacements were indicative of this ...
Diariocritico's 100 Best Albums of the 80s: #85 [164] May 15, 1986 Raising Hell: Run-DMC: Hip hop; rap rock; Profile: The first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip hop record, and one of the greatest and most important albums in the history of hip hop music and culture. [296] [297] Accolades: May 19, 1986 () So: Peter Gabriel Pop [298] art pop; art ...
Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical" was the Billboard Hot 100's longest running number one of the decade.. Reflecting on changes in the music industry during the 1980s, Robert Christgau later wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990):
On July 14, 2022, YouTube made a special playlist and video celebrating the 317 music videos to have hit 1 billion views and joined the "Billion Views Club". [65] [66] On April 1, 2024, the communications app Discord incorporated a short trailer video into their in-app April Fools' Day prank regarding loot boxes. The video automatically looped ...
Club Nouveau (/ n uː v oʊ /) is an American R&B group formed by record producer/performer Jay King in 1986 in Sacramento, California, following the breakup of the Timex Social Club. [2] The group's name ( French for "Club New") was changed from its original incarnation, "Jet Set", to capitalize on the breakup.