{"id":86406,"date":"2021-01-27T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&p=86406"},"modified":"2021-01-27T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:42:12","slug":"epic-records","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/sony\/sony-music-group\/sony-music-entertainment\/epic-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Epic Records is a record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment and headquartered in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Epic was founded in 1953 by the Columbia Records division of CBS. Epic began with a specialism for marketing jazz, pop, and classical music, but later branched out into pop, hip-hop, R&B and other genres.<\/p>\n

Artists whose recordings appear in Epic’s catalog include Michael Jackson, Wham! and George Michael, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Sade, Luther Vandross, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rage Against the Machine, and Oasis.<\/p>\n

More recently, Epic has signed artists including TLC, Toni Braxton, Outkast, Future, Yo Gotti, Meghan Trainor, DJ Khaled, 21 Savage, and Travis Scott.<\/p>\n

L.A Reid ran Epic Records as CEO from 2011 to 2017.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Following Reid’s departure, Sylvia Rhone took leadership of the label as President \u2013 a position she had held since 2014.<\/p>\n

In April 2019, Sony announced<\/a> that Rhone had been promoted to Chairman & CEO of Epic Records.<\/p>\n

Rhone commented at the time: \u201cI am excited to continue my amazing journey at Epic Records supported by Rob Stringer\u2019s vision and leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything we do is a testament to our incredible artists who set the bar of the entire Epic culture, inspiring our dedicated executive team every day and enriching the legacy of this great label.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Epic Records’ catalog includes recordings by Michael Jackson, Travis Scott, Oasis, and Luther Vandross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34758,"parent":83824,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-86406","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/86406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/86406\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/83824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}