Island Urban Music
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| Parent company | Universal Music Group |
| Founded | 1959 |
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| Distributor(s) | Self-distributed (United States) Virgin EMI Records/Island Records UK (United Kingdom) Universal Music Group (International) |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | Jamaica |
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Island Records is a British record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG). It was founded by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong in Jamaica in 1959. Blackwell sold the label to PolyGram in 1989. Both Island and another label recently acquired by PolyGram, A&M Records, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island in particular having exerted a major influence on the progressive UK music scene in the early 1970s.
Three Island labels exist in the world: Island UK, Island US, and Island Australia, with the main label operating out of London. Notable artists on the UK roster include Ariana Grande, Leona Lewis, U2, Mumford & Sons, Amy Winehouse, Ben Howard, Florence + The Machine, Sigrid, John Newman, Hozier, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Disclosure, AlunaGeorge, Keane, Annie Lennox, JP Cooper and PJ Harvey.
Current key people of Island Records include Island president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to the label's significant legacy, Island remains one of UMG's pre-eminent record labels. In a 50-year anniversary documentary, Island Records artist Melissa Etheridge stated: "If you want to look at world music, music of the last fifty years that changed the world, you need look no further than Island Records."
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