Kidinakorner | |
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Parent company | Interscope Geffen A&M |
Founded | 2011 |
Founder | Alexander Grant |
Distributor(s) | Interscope Capitol Labels Group (United States) Universal Music Group (International) |
Genre | Various |
Country of origin | United States |
Location | Los Angeles, California |
Kidinakorner (stylized as KIDinaKORNER) is an American record company founded in 2011 by British music producer and songwriter Alexander "Alex da Kid" Grant. The company houses a record label, music publishing, commercial production and a marketing agency. The company is home to some prominent acts in the music industry, including Imagine Dragons and X Ambassadors.
In 2010, Alexander "Alex da Kid" Grant founded Wonderland Entertainment, a publishing and production company. [1] On August 10, 2010, it was revealed he had signed American singer-songwriter Skylar Grey, to a publishing deal. [2] [3] [4] On June 1, 2011, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, announced Grant signed a joint venture deal to launch his label imprint, KIDinaKORNER. [5] [6] The announcement came after Grant produced three of 2010's biggest singles, namely "Airplanes," "Love the Way You Lie," and "Coming Home," as well as 2011's "I Need a Doctor." On June 14, 2011, KIDinaKORNER released Skylar Grey's debut single, titled "Dance Without You," via digital distribution. [7]
In November 2011, Grant signed American rock band Imagine Dragons and in 2012, released their debut album, Night Visions . [8] [9] Night Visions, included the Diamond-certified single "Radioactive", which spent a record-setting 87 weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. [10] In January 2013, British singer-songwriter Jamie N Commons, signed a record deal with KIDinaKORNER/Interscope. [11] [12] In 2015, KIDinaKORNER released X Ambassadors debut, VHS, which was certified gold by the RIAA. In 2016, Alex da Kid released his debut single "Not Easy" featuring X Ambassadors, Elle King & Wiz Khalifa.
On the 19th of July, Skylar Grey announced that she had left Interscope/KidinaKorner.
After partnering with brands like Jeep, Target, and Budweiser, KIDinaKORNER entered into joint venture with WPP, one of the largest marketing and communications companies in the world, to build marketing campaigns centered around music.
Act | Year signed | Releases under the label |
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Skylar Grey | 2010 | 4 |
Imagine Dragons | 2011 | 9 |
Jamie N Commons | 2013 | 3 |
X Ambassadors | 5 |
Artist | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||||||||
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US | AUS | CAN | GER | IRL | NZ | SWE | SWI | UK | ||||
Skylar Grey | The Buried Sessions of Skylar Grey
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Imagine Dragons | Continued Silence
| 40 | — | — | — | 86 | — | 20 | — | — | ||
Night Visions | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 2 | |||
Hear Me
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
The Archive EP
| 134 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
Jamie N Commons | Rumble and Sway
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
X Ambassadors | Love Songs Drug Songs
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Imagine Dragons | iTunes Session
| 56 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Skylar Grey | Don't Look Down
| 8 | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
iTunes Session
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
X Ambassadors | The Reason
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Imagine Dragons | Smoke + Mirrors
| 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 3 | 1 |
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X Ambassadors | VHS
| 7 | — | 2 | 56 | — | — | — | — | 41 | ||
Jamie N Commons | Jamie N Commons
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Skylar Grey | Natural Causes
| 68 | — | 68 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Imagine Dragons | Evolve
| 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Origins
| 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
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X Ambassadors | Orion
| 125 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Jamie N Commons | Fever Dreams
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Imagine Dragons | Mercury – Act 1
| 9 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 26 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 7 |
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X Ambassadors | The Beautiful Liar
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Holly Brook Hafermann, known professionally as Skylar Grey, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. In 2004, Grey signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group and a recording contract with Linkin Park's Machine Shop Recordings under the name Holly Brook. Her debut studio album, Like Blood Like Honey (2006), served as her only release with the label.
Daniel Coulter Reynolds is an American singer. He is the lead vocalist and a founding member of the pop rock band Imagine Dragons, which formed in 2008. He is a recipient of the Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award.
The following is a list of albums released by Interscope Records.
Michael Francis Gonzalez, also known by his stage name Mike Del Rio, is a musical artist, producer, and songwriter from New York, NY now based in Los Angeles, CA. He is the co creator and lead member of the alternative group POWERS along with songwriter, vocalist and instrumentalist Crista Ru signed to Republic Records. As a record producer, Del Rio's eclectic style and musicality has led him to work with an array of artist such as Kylie Minogue, Selena Gomez, Eminem, Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Cheryl Cole, The Knocks, Skylar Grey, Jamie N Commons, Mylene Farmer and X Ambassadors. Most recently Del Rio executive produced recording artist LP latest album Lost on You containing the global hit title track "Lost on You". He is signed to Alex Da Kid's publishing company KidinaKorner distributed through Universal Music Group.
Alexander Junior Grant, professionally known as Alex da Kid or by.ALEXANDER, is a British music producer from Wood Green, London. He has gained recognition for producing several hit singles for artists of multiple music genres, such as Dr. Dre, Nicki Minaj, B.o.B, Eminem, Matthew Koma ("Stars"), Diddy, Imagine Dragons and Cheryl.
The discography of Skylar Grey, an American singer-songwriter, consists of four studio albums, seven extended plays (EPs), 21 singles and 14 music videos. Grey was signed to Machine Shop Recordings under the name Holly Brook. She released her debut album Like Blood Like Honey in 2006, but was released from her contract after it did not perform commercially. She began working under the name Skylar Grey in 2010, co-writing the three versions of "Love the Way You Lie" with Alex da Kid, who signed her to his Wonderland Music label. Grey later left KIDinaKORNER/Interscope records and is currently an independent artist.
Don't Look Down is the second studio album by American recording artist Skylar Grey. It was released on July 5, 2013 by KidinaKorner and Interscope Records. The album's production was primarily handled by Alex da Kid and J.R. Rotem, along with Eminem, who served as an executive producer on the album. The album features guest appearances from Big Sean, Eminem, Travis Barker and Angel Haze.
It's Time is the fourth extended play (EP) by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons, released on March 12, 2011. It was recorded inside of Studio X at the Palms Hotel and Casino during the autumn of 2010. All songs were written and produced by Imagine Dragons and mixed by Grammy-nominated engineer Mark Needham.
Continued Silence EP is the fifth EP by American rock band Imagine Dragons, released on February 14, 2012 by KIDinaKORNER and Interscope Records. It was recorded at Westlake Recording Studios. All songs were written by Imagine Dragons and produced by Alex Da Kid, with mixing by engineer Manny Marroquin and engineer Rich Costey. The EP was mastered by mastering engineer Joe LaPorta. All of the songs on Continued Silence were featured on the band's debut album Night Visions except for "My Fault" and "Round and Round", which were later included on deluxe editions of Night Visions. Previous purchases of songs from the EP counted towards Night Visions and decreased its price.
Night Visions is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. It was released on September 4, 2012, through Kidinakorner and Interscope Records. The album was primarily produced by the band themselves, as well as English hip-hop producer Alex da Kid and Brandon Darner of The Envy Corps and formerly of the metal band Slipknot. According to frontman Dan Reynolds, the album took three years to finish, with six of the album's tracks being previously released on multiple EPs. Musically, Night Visions exhibits influences of folk, hip hop and pop.
"C'mon Let Me Ride" is a song by American singer Skylar Grey, released December 11, 2012 as the first single from her major-label debut album Don't Look Down (2013). The song, produced by frequent collaborator and longtime producer Alex da Kid and Mike Del Rio, features a guest appearance from American rapper Eminem, who also mixed the record. The song was released to contemporary hit radio in January 2013.
"On Top of the World" is a song by the American rock band Imagine Dragons first appearing on their major-label debut extended play Continued Silence (2012). The song also appears on their first full-length album Night Visions (2012). "On Top of the World" was released digitally as a single on March 18, 2013.
The Archive is the seventh overall and first promotional EP by American rock band Imagine Dragons, released for a limited time on February 12, 2013 on the United States iTunes Store through KIDinaKORNER and Interscope. The EP was released as a forerunner EP to sell tracks from the then-upcoming deluxe edition of the band's debut studio album Night Visions before it was released in the United States.
James Nicholas Commons is a British singer and songwriter, based in New Cross, London.
iTunes Session is the eighth overall and first live EP by American rock band Imagine Dragons released on May 28, 2013 through KIDinaKORNER and Interscope.
"Jungle" is a song by American rock band X Ambassadors and British blues rock singer Jamie N Commons. It was released as a single on 18 December 2013 by KIDinaKORNER and Interscope. The track appeared on X Ambassadors' 2014 EP The Reason and their 2015 studio album VHS.
Candice Pillay is a South African singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. She is best known for writing songs for artists including Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Calvin Harris, Christina Aguilera, Dr. Dre, Eminem, ScHoolboy Q, Why Don't We, Rita Ora, Sevyn Streeter, Logan Paul and Tinie Tempah.
Cannonball is a single released by American singer and songwriter, Skylar Grey. The song was written by Grey, Sam Harris, Noah Feldshuh, Casey Harris, Adam Levin and Alex da Kid, produced by the latter, and features the band X Ambassadors. "Cannonball" is on FIFA 16 soundtrack, and was announced by The Independent. It received official digital release on September 25, 2015 "Cannonball" will support the US collaborative tour between Grey and X Ambassadors. The song sold around 25,000 digital copies in the United States.
Natural Causes is the third studio album by American recording artist Skylar Grey. It is her second album since her stage name change from Holly Brook to Skylar Grey. It was released on September 23, 2016, by KidinaKorner and Interscope Records.