Jive Records

American record label
Organization record_label Q27184
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Jive Records

Summary

Jive Records is a record label[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,410 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Jive Records is in the country of United States[3].
  • Jive Records's instance of is recorded as record label[4].
  • Jive Records's founder is recorded as Clive Calder[5].
  • Jive Records's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[6].
  • Jive Records's discography is recorded as Jive Records catalog[7].
  • Jive Records's Commons category is recorded as Jive Records[8].
  • Jive Records comprises GRETA[9].
  • 1977 marks the founding of Jive Records[10].
  • Jive Records was dissolved in 2011[11].
  • Jive Records's parent organization or unit is recorded as Zomba Group of Companies[12].
  • Jive Records's parent organization or unit is recorded as Sony Music[13].
  • Jive Records's official website is recorded as http://www.jiverecords.com[14].
  • Jive Records's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Jive Records[15].
  • Jive Records's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Jive'}[16].
  • Jive Records's different from is recorded as Jive[17].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Production[18]

  • Country: US[19]

  • Began / founded: 1981[20]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2011-10-07[21]

  • Genre(s): dance-pop, dirty south, east coast hip hop, electropop, hip hop, pop, southern hip hop, west coast hip hop[22]

  • Community tags: american, américain, dance-pop, dirty south, east coast hip hop, electropop, hip hop, pop, southern hip hop, usa, west coast hip hop[23]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 79245298-c0ba-4eba-aecc-3dfe8eeb689f[24]

Body

Founding

Jive Records's founder is recorded as Clive Calder[5]. 1977 marks the founding of it[10].

Identity

Jive Records's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Jive'}[16].

Operations

Jive Records's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[6]. Parent organizations include Zomba Group of Companies[12], a record label[25], in United States[26], founded in 1981[27], headquartered in New York City[28] and Sony Music[13], a business[29], in United States[30], founded in 2009[31], headquartered in New York City[32].

Dissolution

Jive Records was dissolved in 2011[11].

Why It Matters

Jive Records ranks in the top 4% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,410 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . sonymusic.de. sonymusic.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [19] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [20] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [22] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [23] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [24] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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