EDEL MUSIC

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'Edel Music' was founded in 1986 by Michael Haentjes in Germany as a mail order record company selling mostly soundtracks. With artists such as Scooter, Holly Johnson and many others, it became a very successful pop music label. Edel went to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 1998.
Over the years Edel purchased Eagle Rock Records, Facedown Records, Gang Go Music, Club Tools, Control Records and Belgian Play It Again Sam. Edel is also present in Austria, Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, United States, Finland and Denmark (as Edel-Mega Records).
Edel Music are also well known for book publishing (under the brand ear books) and one of their best sellers is Carnival In Rio, Samba Samba Samba, containing 4 Brazilian music CD’s and 120 pages of high quality, spectacular carnival photographs taken by photographer Terry George.

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Edel Records subsidiary EARbooks released the mammoth last solo album project by Chris Rea. This record was nearly the largest album ever to reach the UK Top 75, however by the Sunday the record had dropped from its Top 75 midweek charts position.
Edel Music's (Germany) barcode starts with 4029758.
Edel was the company chosen by artist Prince in 1994 when he parted way from Warner Brothers. The company released in Europe the single'' The Most Beautiful Girl In The World'' which was Prince's very first UK #1 hit. They also released several Prince-produced albums such as ''The Beautiful Experience'', NPG's ''Exodus'', and Mayte's ''Child Of The Sun''.

See also

★ List of record labels

External link

★ Official site