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A record label or record company is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Often, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution,

marketing, promotion, and enforcement of copyright for sound recordings and music videos.

• Interscope Records• Sony Music Entertainment• RCA Records• Virgin Records• EMI Records• Universal Music Group• Island Records

• SBK Records• Parlophone Records• Food Records• Glassnote Records• Columbia Records• Bright Antenna Records• 14th Floor Records

Some examples of indie bands and their record labels:

Sony Music Entertainment (abbreviated as SME and also referred to as Sony Music) is an American label and company owned by Sony through Sony Entertainment. The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation.

They have been a record label for indie bands such as:-Causes-Foo Fighters-Foster the people-Kasabian-Kings Of Leon

-Kodaline-The Script-The Vaccines

Virgin Records is a major record label first founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell and musician Tom Newman in

1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI in 1992. Currently wholly owned by Universal Music Group after its purchase of EMI in 2012, UMG absorbed

Virgin's British operations, Virgin Records, Ltd., to create Virgin EMI Records in March 2013, which in

turn absorbed Mercury Records' UK operations.They have been a record label for indie bands such as

Bastille and Prides.

I think that the record label that I would choose to market and distribute my track,

band and album for the indie band that I have chosen is Sony Entertainment. This is

because they have worked with a range of different indie bands and they are well known

so they know who to attract the target audience and it also gives my band an edge as they would be associated with the well

known bands that they already are a record label for. This means some of their audience

may listen to my band. Sony are well established and well known which will give

my band a platform.