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Industry | Music & Entertainment |
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Founded | Menart Slovenia: 1994 Menart Croatia: 1997 |
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Products | Music & Entertainment |
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Menart Records is a Slovenian full-service record label with partner companies also in Croatia and Serbia.
Menart Records started in 1996 [1] in Slovenia only, founded by Boštjan Menart.
Menart Records is the exclusive Sony Music license for the territories of Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania.
As a domestic label, Menart has grown in Slovenia to the leading company in popular music – dominating sales and airplay charts with acts as Atomik Harmonik, [1] Dan D, Siddharta, Tabu, Jan Plestenjak, [1] Magnifico, Alya, [1] Saša Lendero, [1] Turbo Angels, Niet, Rebeka Dremelj and Kingston. Menart has established itself on the top of the Slovenian music industry. Besides releasing physical records, Menart has started in Slovenia the download site mZone.si (early 2008). On this site Slovenian and (on a limited scale) international customers can download domestic and foreign titles.
In Croatia Menart has worked in ten year the label to the top. Menart has established the following acts in the top of the Croatian popular music scene: The Beat Fleet, Colonia, [1] Hladno pivo, Edo Maajka, [1] Goran Karan, Karma, [1] Letu štuke, Luka Nižetić, [1] Matija Cvek, Pips, Chips & Videoclips, Lollobrigida Girls, Gustafi and many others.
Menart has also managed to release (through licensing partners) various acts outside of the former Yugoslavian territories:
Menart is an official distributor for Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Edel AG. [1]
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