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Record labels of Australia and New Zealand
Record labels of Australia and New Zealand operate in markets dominated by three majors holding 97% of Australian chart share in 2023, alongside independents like Mushroom and Flying Nun.
Record labels of Canada
Record labels of Canada are the companies that sign, produce, and distribute recorded music in Canada, split between foreign multinational subsidiaries and independents organized along provincial and linguistic lines.
Record labels of Eastern Europe, Russia and the Baltics
The record labels of Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Baltics are the recording companies of the former Eastern bloc, dominated by state monopolies like Melodiya until 1989.
Record labels of France and the Benelux and Southern European countries
Record labels of France and the Benelux and Southern European countries are companies producing, marketing, and distributing recorded music across France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece.
Record labels of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Record labels of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland form a landscape of three major labels with national subsidiaries plus a dense layer of small and medium-sized independent labels.
Record labels of Latin America and the Caribbean
An overview of record labels of Latin America and the Caribbean, from Casa Edison in Brazil, founded in 1900, to national labels across the region.
Record labels of Scandinavia and the Nordic countries
Record labels of Scandinavia and the Nordic countries are the recording companies based in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, marked by growing independent labels alongside downsizing major-label local operations.
Record labels of the United States
Record labels of the United States include the Big 3 majors, Universal, Sony, and Warner Music Group, and thousands of independents concentrated in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Memphis.
Record producer
Record producer: the person overseeing a recording's creative direction, performances, and delivery, from song selection and arrangement to mixing oversight; distinct from the recording engineer, historically a label employee and since the 1970s often an independent free agent.
Record Store Day
Record Store Day (RSD) is an annual event on the third Saturday of April, founded in 2007 and first held April 19, 2008, celebrating independent record stores with exclusive limited-edition vinyl releases, plus a November RSD Black Friday edition.
Recorded Music NZ
Recorded Music NZ (Recorded Music New Zealand Limited) is New Zealand's industry body for recording artists and labels: it licenses recordings via OneMusic with APRA AMCOS, compiles the Official Aotearoa Music Charts, runs the Aotearoa Music Awards, and distributed just over $12m in 2025.
Recorder (musical instrument)
The recorder, or Flauto dolce, is a woodwind instrument with a fixed fipple mouthpiece. It was a primary Baroque solo instrument and is now common in schools.
Recording Industry Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), US recorded-music trade association founded 1952, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Runs Gold & Platinum certifications, anti-piracy litigation, SoundExchange royalty administration, and 2026 GenAI labeling program.
Recording Industry of South Africa
Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA/RISA), formerly ASAMI, is South Africa's IFPI-recognized record industry trade association. It runs the SAMAs, Official SA Charts, Gold/Platinum certification, and ISRC issuance.
Recovery (Aaron Carter album)
Recovery is a 2024 posthumous album by American singer Aaron Carter, collecting previously unheard music assembled by his family after his death in November 2022.
Recovery (Eminem album)
Recovery (2010) is Eminem's seventh studio album, originally planned as Relapse 2, released June 18, 2010 on Shady/Aftermath/Interscope; 17 tracks, singles Not Afraid, Love the Way You Lie, No Love, Space Bound; best-selling album of 2010.
Red (band)
Red (stylized RED) is an American rock band formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2002, known for blending nu-metal and alternative rock with classical and orchestral elements.
Red (King Crimson album)
Red (1974) is King Crimson's seventh studio album, released 6 October 1974 on Island, recorded by Fripp, Wetton, and Bruford at Olympic Studios with guests McDonald and Collins; it peaked at UK number 45 and closed the band's 1970s era.
Red (Taylor Swift album)
Red (2012), Taylor Swift's fourth studio album on Big Machine Records, sold 1.2 million copies in week one and bridged country and pop via Max Martin and Shellback, preceding 1989 and the 2021 re-recording Red (Taylor's Version).
Red (Taylor's Version)
Red (Taylor's Version) is Taylor Swift's 2021 Republic Records re-recording of her 2012 album Red, second in the Taylor's Version project: 30 tracks, nine vault songs, and the 10-minute All Too Well.
Red Axes
Red Axes is an Israeli electronic duo from Tel Aviv formed by Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi in 2010, known for guitar-led house, disco, and techno.
Red Bull Batalla de los Gallos
Red Bull Batalla de los Gallos (Red Bull Batalla, BDLG) is Red Bull's Spanish-language freestyle rap competition, founded in 2005 with its first international final in Puerto Rico, won by Argentina's Frescolate; national finals feed a 16-MC knockout world final.
Red Bull Music Academy 2017
Red Bull Music Academy 2017 was the gap year between academy terms, when RBMA partnered with Berlin's CTM Festival on lectures and club nights in February 2017.
Red Fang
Red Fang is an American stoner rock and metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2005, known for albums like Murder the Mountains (2011) and Arrows (2021) and videos such as "Prehistoric Dog" and "Wires".
Red Garland
Red Garland (William McKinley Garland Jr., 1923–1984), Dallas-born jazz pianist famed for block-chord voicings, pianist of Miles Davis's first great quintet (1955–58) and leader of A Garland of Red.
Red Headed Stranger
Red Headed Stranger, Willie Nelson's 18th studio album (May 1975, Columbia), is a spare outlaw-country concept album about a fugitive preacher; recorded for $4,000, it went double platinum and gave Nelson his first country number one single.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Los Angeles funk rock band formed in 1983, known for slap bass, rap vocals, and punk energy; Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) breakthrough, Rock Hall inductees 2012, 12 studio albums.
Red Hot Chili Peppers discography
Red Hot Chili Peppers discography: 13 studio albums (1984-2022) by the American funk rock band, from the 1984 debut to Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen; first US number one with Stadium Arcadium (2006).
Red Leather (musician)
Red Leather is an anonymous American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Reno, Nevada, based in Los Angeles, who hides his face under a red fringed Stetson. Known for RENO (2023) and TAHOE (2026) on EMPIRE, and songs about addiction and recovery.
Red Oak Opera House
The Red Oak Opera House in Red Oak, Iowa, names two venues: a second-floor hall used from about 1881 to 1909 and the Beardsley Opera House of 1909.