{"id":98282,"date":"2021-01-27T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98282"},"modified":"2021-01-27T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:51:43","slug":"secretly-group-3","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/secretly-group-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretly Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretly Group is one of the world&#8217;s biggest independent music companies.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, founded in 1996, owns record labels such as Secretly Canadian, Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, and The Numero Group. It is also home to Ghostly International.<\/p>\n<p>Secretly Canadian was founded by Chris Swanson, Ben Swanson, Eric Weddle, and Jonathan Cargill.<\/p>\n<p>Jagjaguwar, also founded in 1996, merged operations with Secretly Canadian in 1999. Jagjaguwar was founded by now-Secretly group co-owner, Darius Van Arman.<\/p>\n<p>Dead Oceans was founded in 2007 by the owners of Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian with Austin-based Phil Waldorf.<\/p>\n<p>The Numero Group was established by Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier, and Ken Shipley in 2003. It became a part of Secretly Group in 2013 when company partners Ben Swanson, Chris Swanson and Darius Van Arman bought a stake in the reissue specialist and brought it into the Secretly family.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2018, via a merger, Brooklyn-based label Ghostly International also <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/ghostly-international-is-now-a-secretly-label\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">became part<\/a> of the Secretly Group.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Secretly Group is the parent to Secretly Publishing, and Secretly Distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Secretly Group is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in Brooklyn, London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, and Berlin.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>Secretly Group label rosters<\/h6>\n<p>Secretly Group&#8217;s individual frontline record labels each boast a distinct and successful roster of artists:<\/p>\n<ul><li>Secretly Canadian&#8217;s roster includes artists such as Anohni, Jens Lekman, Whitney, The War On Drugs, and the catalog of Jason Molina.<\/li><li>Jagjaguwar&#8217;s roster includes Grammy-winner Bon Iver, as well as Dinosaur Jr., Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.<\/li><li>Dead Oceans is home to artists such as Mitski, Phoebe Bridgers, Kevin Morby, Phosphorescent, Slowdive and The Tallest Man On Earth.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretly Group was formed via the merger of Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar in 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":67728,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98282","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98282","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\/98282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}