Columbia Records

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music company record label

Columbia Records is a major American record label, one of the oldest in the world, known for signing and releasing music by many influential and commercially successful artists across diverse genres.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	music company → record label →
country	United States →
distribution	global →
formerName	Columbia Phonograph Company →
formerOwner	CBS → Columbia Broadcasting System →
foundedAs	Columbia Phonograph Company →
genre	R&B → classical music → country music → hip hop music → jazz → pop music → rock music →
hasImprint	Columbia Masterworks (historical classical imprint) → Columbia Nashville → Columbia Records UK →
headquartersLocation	New York → New York City → United States →
inception	1887 →
industry	music industry →
language	English →
logo	Columbia Records walking eye logo →
marketPosition	one of the major American record labels → one of the oldest record labels in the world →
notableArtist	AC/DC → Adele → Aerosmith → Aretha Franklin → Barbra Streisand → Beyoncé → Billy Joel → Bob Dylan → Bruce Springsteen → Harry Styles → Johnny Cash → Journey → Leonard Cohen → Miles Davis → Santana → Simon & Garfunkel → The Chainsmokers → Tony Bennett → Tyler, the Creator →
notableRelease	Born to Run → Bridge over Troubled Water → Highway 61 Revisited → Kind of Blue → Thriller (original U.S. LP pressing via Epic’s parent company) →
ownedBy	Sony Group Corporation →
parentCompany	Sony Music Entertainment →
partOf	Sony Music Entertainment →
predecessor	Columbia Graphophone Company →
product	music videos → recorded music →
significantEvent	became part of Sony Music Entertainment after Sony’s acquisition of CBS Records → transitioned from shellac and vinyl records to CDs and digital formats →

Referenced by (230)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
4 → A Legendary Christmas → AC/DC → Adele → Aerosmith → Aim High → Alice in Chains → All Along the Watchtower → All I Want for Christmas Is You → All of Me → Alright → Always Be My Baby → Arcade Fire → B'Day → Be (Intro) → Bessie Smith → Beyoncé → Beyond the Horizon → Bigger Love → Billie Holiday → Blink-182 → Blonde on Blonde → Blood on the Tracks → Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain → Bob Dylan → Born in the U.S.A. → Born to Run → Bring Me Love → Bringing It All Back Home → Bush → Butterfly → Carl Perkins → Carole King → Celine Dion → Charlotte Church → Chicago Symphony Orchestra → Chloe x Halle → Common → Consequence → Cowboy Carter → Crazy in Love → Cuff It → Dangerously in Love → Darkness and Light → Darkness on the Edge of Town → Desire → Destiny's Child → Devils & Dust → Dreams → Drunk in Love → Duke Ellington → Each Day Gets Better → Earl Hines → Ebony and Ivory → Emotions → Everybody Knows → Evolver → Fantasy → Fletcher Henderson → Forever Begins → Formation → Frank Sinatra → George Michael → Get Lifted → Get Lifted → Gladys Knight → Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. → Halo (song) → Harry Styles → Heartland → Herbie Hancock → Hero (song) → High Hopes → Highway 61 Revisited → Hold On Longer → How Could It Be → Hozier → Human Touch → Hurricane (Bob Dylan song) → I Am... Sasha Fierce → I Can Change → I Know Better → I'm Your Man → Ian and Sylvia → Illmatic → In the Now → Irreplaceable → It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back → Jermaine Dupri → John Roger Stephens → Johnny Cash → Jonas Brothers → Journey → Kind of Blue → King Oliver → Kings of Leon → Knockin' on Heaven's Door → La Vie en rose → Lauryn Hill → Lea Michele → Leonard Cohen → Letter to You → Licensed to Ill → Like a Rolling Stone → Live It Up → Louis Armstrong → Louis Armstrong → Louis Armstrong → Love Me Now → Love and Theft → Love in the Future → Lucky Town → Luther Vandross → Made to Love → Magic → Mahalia Jackson → Manic Street Preachers → Mariah Carey → Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. → Marvin Gaye → Max Weinberg → Miles Davis → Modern Times → Mr. Tambourine Man → Music Box → My Heart Will Go On → Nas → Nashville Skyline → Nebraska → Neil Diamond → No Malice → Number One → On the Road Again → Once Again → One Sweet Day → Open Your Eyes → Ordinary People → P.D.A. (We Just Don’t Care) → Party All the Time → Peter Tosh → Pharrell Williams → Public Enemy → Radio (LL Cool J album) → Rainbow (album) → Raphael Saadiq → Rebbie Jackson → Red Headed Stranger → Refuge (When It’s Cold Outside) → Renaissance → Rosemary Clooney → Run the World (Girls) → Save Room → She Don’t Have to Know → Simon & Garfunkel → Slow Dance → Slow Jamz → So High → Solange Knowles → Sons of the Pioneers → Spirit on the Water → Springsteen on Broadway → Stay With You → Subterranean Homesick Blues → Tangled Up in Blue → The Chainsmokers → The Clancy Brothers → The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan → The Ghost of Tom Joad → The Highwaymen → The Internet → The Levee's Gonna Break → The New Christy Minstrels → The Rising → The Stooges → The Times They Are a-Changin' → Thunder Road → Thunder on the Mountain → Time Out of Mind → Tino Rossi ("Columbia Records (France)") → Tomorrow (John Legend song) → Tony Bennett → Tug of War → Tunnel of Love → Used to Love U → Vision of Love → Wayne Shorter → We Are the World → We Loved It → We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions → Western Stars → What If I Told You? (Interlude) → When the Deal Goes Down → Who Do We Think We Are → Wild → Working on a Dream → Workingman's Blues #2 → Wrecking Ball → Wynton Marsalis → Yo-Yo Ma ("CBS Masterworks") → You & I (Nobody in the World) →	recordLabel
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Dreamgirls version) → Blowin' in the Wind → Erroll Garner → Glory → Honey → Lemonade → Mariah Carey (album) → Streets of Philadelphia → The River →	label
Clive Davis → John H. Hammond Jr. → John H. Hammond Jr. →	employer
Columbia Records ("Columbia Nashville") → Columbia Records ("Columbia Records UK") →	hasImprint
Bigger Love → Blood on the Tracks →	publisher
Let’s Get Lifted (Intro) →	associatedAct
E Street Band →	collaboratesWith
Renaissance →	distributedBy
Okeh Records →	distribution
Epic Records →	foundedBy
Legacy Recordings →	handlesCatalogOf
Can’t Be My Lover →	isOnLabel
Columbia Records ("Columbia Records walking eye logo") →	logo
Aretha Franklin ("Columbia Records artists") →	memberOf
Nashville sound ("Columbia Records Nashville") →	notableLabel
Okeh Records →	parentOrganization
Bob Dylan and The Band →	recordedWith
The Man That Got Away →	recordLabelForSingle
Sony Music Entertainment →	subsidiary