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A&M Octone Records was an American record label owned as a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Octone Records. A full-service artist development label, it was founded in 2007 as a merger between Octone and Interscope Geffen A&M 's defunct A&M Records label.
This is a list of artists who recorded for A&M Records. Listed in parentheses are the names of A&M-affiliated labels for which the artist recorded. Contents:
A&M/Octone Records was a New York-based record label, which operated through the Universal Music Group. The label represents a merger of Universal Music's A&M Records label with Octone. Headquartered in New York City, A&M/Octone Records was home to Maroon 5, Flyleaf and Hollywood Undead.
2007: Universal merges A&M with Octone Records and places Octone's management in charge of combined label as A&M/Octone Records (except in Japan and the UK). 2013: A&M/Octone is absorbed by Interscope.
- 1998–99: Universal Music Merger and Unit Foundation
- A&M and DGC Records Folding, Lawsuit and Staff Layoffs
- 2000–03: Recovery and Dominance
- Label Mergers and Absorptions
- 2008–13: Extended Success, 19 Entertainment Partnership and A&M/Octone Folding
- Jimmy Iovine's Departure, Dreamville Partnership and John Janick Takeover
- 2014–20: Commercial Re-Emergence and Geffen Relaunch
- 2020–21: Covid Impact, Recovery, DGC Records Merger and Alamo Deal Fallout
- 2022–23: Billboard Commercial Dominance
On December 10, 1998, Canadian distillery and conglomerate Seagram completed its seven-month $10.6 billion plan to acquire PolyGram. Shortly after, Seagram merged PolyGram with Universal Pictures; its music division was merged with recording labels under the music faction of MCA Inc. The expensive merger created what is today, the biggest major mus...
As a result of the merger, on January 22, three weeks after the PolyGram-UMG merger, both A&M Records and Geffen division DGC Records went dormant with a certainty of artists drafted to either Geffen or Interscope, while a significant percentage of artists and/or bands were dropped from A&M and Geffen. With Geffen now existing as the only active la...
As independent labels, A&M and Geffen were revered, having had achieved substantial commercial and artistic success. Both had been sold by their founders, however, and suffered from budget restraints and unproductive band signings over the previous years. At the time of the merger, neither labels had hit singles upon the top forties of Billboard ch...
Throughout 2003, many sister labels were either acquired by UMG and later merged or folded into IGA. The first was MCA Records, which had been occupant since its 1934 foundation under the Decca Records banner. MCA's final album release was rapper Common's fifth studio album, Electric Circus, which was released in December 2002; the album's lukewarm...
IGA struck more success with pop singer Lady Gaga through her single, "Poker Face", which released in 2008. In 2010, IGA and 19 Entertainment announced a strategic alliance to develop, distribute and globally market records by American Idol finalists and winning contestants. A year later, in May 2011, Ron Fair was one of the few executives related ...
Jimmy Iovine served as chairman and CEO of IGA until May 2014. He was succeeded by Fueled by Ramen co-founder John Janick, who had been a part of IGA as president and COO since 2012. This was during this period that a company reorganization concerning parent Universal Music Group was happening, of which not only Iovine departed from IGA, but its si...
Interscope Geffen A&M began to see more dominance with Lana Del Rey, whose sophomore studio album, Ultraviolence, managed to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 upon release that July. Then, in 2015, Kendrick Lamar, who had previously released Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, on October 23, 2012, helped the unit score another number one album with To P...
In 2020, IGA and UMG saw a 4.5% decrease in music and concert sales, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. UMG CEO Lucian Grainge contracted the disease and had to be quarantined. Then, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protest of the police-related killing of Breonna Taylor, Interscope artist DaBaby helped to save the unit from financial straits with...
In 2022, IGA sustained three number one albums, Mainstream Sellout by Machine Gun Kelly, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar and Born Pink by Blackpink.However, several staff member departures increased, including A&R Caroline Diaz, who had been a part of Interscope/Geffen team since 2019; she formed her own label, Great Day Records. As...
Less than eight years later, A&M was relaunched as A&M Octone Records, before being absorbed by Interscope again in 2013. Popular A&M Records songs All for a Reason
A&M Records (via Interscope Records) The once independent, New York City based Octone Records was launched in 2000 by James Diener, David Boxenbaum and Ben Berkman while the label's CEO and President, James Diener, was working at the RCA Group's J Records .
