Mercury Records

Mercury Records
Parent companyUniversal Music Group
Founded1945 (1945)
Founder
  • Irving Green
  • Berle Adams
  • Arthur Talmadge
  • Ray Greenberg
StatusActive
Distributor(s)
  • Republic (United States)
  • EMI (United Kingdom, Japan)
  • Island Def Jam/Barclay (France)
  • Island (pre-2014 catalog)
GenreVarious
Country of originUnited States
LocationChicago, Illinois, (1945–1980)
New York City (1980–present)
Official website

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury.[1] Mercury Records released rock, funk, R&B, doo wop, soul, blues, pop, rock and roll, and jazz records. In the United States, it is operated through Republic Records; in the United Kingdom and Japan (as Mercury Tokyo in the latter country), it is distributed by EMI Records.

  1. ^ "Smash Album Discography". Bsnpubs.com. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
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