Major Music company – Case study IMAGINE DRAGONS

Ownership structures

Imagine dragons are signed with Interscope Records which is a subsidiary of Vivendi S.A. and the parent company of Interscope Records is Universal Music Group.

They are also signed up with KidinaKorner where its distributors are Interscope Geffen A&M and Universal Music Distribution.

Interscope Geffen A&M is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, they are the distributors for KidinaKorner. But they have distributors as well. That distribute to the (UK) its called Polydor Limited and Universal Music Distribution.

About Imagine Dragons

Back in 2010 they were just a lounge act playing most nights in casinos and bars. But Train’s frontman fell sick just before the Bite of Las Vegas festival and they were contacted to fill in to preform in front of 26,000 people in one night compared to their normal average of 2,000 people weakly. Then they became more popular stated to play and small time venues until November 2011 they signed with Interscope Records and began working with a Grammy award winning producer Alex da Kid.

In 2012 they released a few EP (singles) followed by their debut studio album ‘Night visons’ which launched them international success. With the life cycle of 2012 to the early months of 2014 With a sold out tour that spanned from early 2013 and ended in mid 2014. In very late December they released singles of there new hit album ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ then the full album with a bonus CD in February 2015.

Production process

From both full albums and EP’s they are all written by themselves but produced and recorded by both them and Alexander Grant ‘Alex da Kid’

Label input

The labels them selves had no input with the whole pre production and most of post production. The only input the labels had was KidinaKorner where it coincided with the band in producing and recording the songs. Then both KidinaKorner and Interscope distributed.