Saturday, 5 October 2013

Island Records - Research

Island Records is the label that signed John Newman when he was 20 years old. The record label was founded by Chris Blackwell and Graeme Goodall in Jamaica in 1959 and it was based in the UK and is now owned by Universal Music Group. The company is set up in many different countries such as America, UK and Australia. They are a huge record label who have also signed artists such as:
- Jessie J
- Dizzee Rascal
- Rizzle Kicks
- Disclosure
- Bombay Bicycle Club
- Drake
- Avicii
- Ben Howard
- Dappy
- Mumford And Sons
- Nicki Minaj
- The Wanted
This is such a massive range of different artist who are all extremely well known across the globe. This makes the record label have a huge reputation and shows that they are incredibly good at what they do.

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