Columbia Record Company
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| Parent company | Sony Music |
| Founded | 1887 (as Columbia Phonograph Company) (subsidiary of the North American Phonograph Company until 1894) |
| Distributor(s) | Sony Music Entertainment Legacy Recordings (reissues) |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | New York City |
| Official website | www |
Columbia Records is an American major record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment through Sony Entertainment, both are subsidiaries of Sony Corporation of America, the United States division of Sony Corporation. It was founded in 1887 from an earlier enterprise named the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company.
From 1961 to 1990, Columbia's recordings were released outside the U.S. and Canada under the name CBS Records to avoid being confused with the Columbia Graphophone Company in the UK. Columbia is one of Sony Music's three flagship record labels with RCA and Epic.
Musicians who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Beyoncé, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Shakira, Susan Boyle, David Bowie, Mariah Carey, Neil Diamond, Celine Dion, Bob Dylan, Earth, Wind & Fire, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and Pharrell Williams.
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