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Key facts
- Parent company
- Warner Music Group
- Founded
- October 1947 ; 78 years ago ( 1947-10 )
- Founder
- Ahmet Ertegun , Herb Abramson
- Distributors
- Atlantic Music Group (United States) Warner Music Group (International) Rhino Entertainment Company (Reissues)
- Genre
- Various
- Country of origin
- United States
- Location
- New York City , U.S.
- Official website
- atlanticrecords .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recordings in January 1948, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Led Zeppelin, and Yes.
In 2004, Atlantic and its sister label Elektra were merged into the Atlantic Music Group. Craig Kallman is the chairman of Atlantic. Ahmet Ertegun served as founding chairman until his death on December 14, 2006, at age 83.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atlantic Records” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.