Mascot Label Group | |
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Founded | 1989 |
Status | Active |
Distributor(s) | FUGA |
Genre | Rock, Metal, Blues, Prog & Guitar |
Country of origin | Netherlands |
Official website | mascotlabelgroup.com |
Mascot Label Group is an independently owned record label. Founded in 1989 in The Netherlands under the name Mascot Records, the company was renamed Mascot-Provogue in 1999 and since 2010 has been known as the Mascot Label Group. The company is based in the Netherlands and has offices in New York, Cologne, Stockholm, Milan, Paris and London. It was distributed by ADA and Warner Music Group until 2022; it is now digitally distributed by FUGA internationally and physically distributed by AMPED in the United States. [1] Mascot Label Group is the parent company of the following labels: Mascot Records, Provogue Records, Music Theories Recordings, Cool Green Recordings, The Funk Garage, and The Players Club.
Mascot Label Group distributes Favored Nations internationally and partially distributes Surfdog Records outside North America.
Mascot Label Group is a label member of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) [2] and STOMP.
GRAMMY AWARDS (US/GLOBAL)
CHART SUCCESSES (US/GLOBAL)
BLUES MUSIC AWARDS (US/GLOBAL)
BLUES BLAST MUSIC AWARDS (US)
A2IM/LIBERA AWARDS (US/GLOBAL)
Beth Hart is an American musician from Los Angeles, California. She rose to fame with the release of her 1999 single "LA Song " from her second album Screamin' for My Supper. The single was a number one hit in New Zealand, as well as reaching the top 5 of the US Adult Contemporary and Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 charts.
Joseph Leonard Bonamassa is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He started his career at age twelve, when he opened for B.B. King. Since 2000, Bonamassa has released fifteen solo albums through his independent record label J&R Adventures, of which eleven have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Blues chart.
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