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Record label - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (804 words) |
 | The name derives from the paper label at the center of a gramophone record (what is also known as a "phonograph record" in American English). |
 | Most major record labels are owned by a few large multinational companies (Big Four record labels) that make up the almost all of the global recording industry, although there is a recent resurgence in independent record labels. |
 | Such labels have a reputation for being fiercely uncompromising and especially unwilling to cooperate with the Big Five record labels at all. |
| Record label - definition of Record label in Encyclopedia (613 words) |
 | Most major record labels are owned by a few large multinational companies that make up the almost all of the global recording industry, although there is a recent resurgence in independent record labels. |
 | Often the record label's decisions are correct ones from a commercial perspective, but this typically frustrates the artist who feels that their artwork is being destroyed. |
 | The new century brings the phenomena of the open-source or open-content record label. |