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moved to Chrysalis as Director of New Music Marketing, advancing later to Senior Vice President. During the next two years Chrysalis broke Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Idol and Spandau Ballet in the United States, whilst Pat Benatar continued to find success on both the traditional and dance music
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Chrysalis Records relaunched itself as a front line label in February 2020, marking a return to releasing new music for the first time in over two decades. The first signing was in partnership with award winning independent label
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Two weeks after announcing its acquisition of Parlophone, Warner Music agreed to sell roughly 30 percent of its own catalogue to independent record labels.
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Chrysalis made history in 1979 by creating the first "music video album", a videocassette featuring a corresponding music video for each song on
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in a fully co-branded global release. As the first project released on Chrysalis' re-launched frontline label, Marling's album,
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Chrysalis Records has represented over 20,000 recordings comprising many British and other, chiefly American, rock and
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On 6 August 2021, the second album from Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay's project, Lump (styled in all caps), titled
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prior to the acquisition continued as General Manager, later becoming Director of Marketing of Chrysalis Records.
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in the United States, which led Chrysalis to an American distribution deal with Reprise's parent company,
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on physical, digital and streaming platforms in early 2023; those albums were originally released by
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Most non-North American catalogues, plus the rights to artists not originally signed to Chrysalis:
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was released under the Chrysalis Records label. It is a collection of songs by singer/songwriter
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announced that it would acquire many of EMI's European record labels, including Chrysalis and
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In 2018, the Cooltempo label was relaunched by Blue Raincoat Music with the release of the
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as part of the Chrysalis family, with Grainge staying on to run the label that he founded.
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Chrysalis Records was bought in May 2016 from WMG in a deal led by Blue Raincoat Music's
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50% of the Chrysalis Records label was sold in 1989, then the remaining half in 1991 to
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in the mid 1990s. Chrysalis Records was folded into EMI subsidiary and flagship label
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might have come into being anyway, you never know what might have happened, but
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couldn't even get their name right on the record". This was after the single "
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really came into being because Jethro Tull couldn't get a record deal and
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covered Australia and New Zealand. In 1973, it signed British rock band
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offered to divest several record labels, including EMI's Chrysalis and
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Ben Sisario, "Warner Music Group Buys EMI Assets for $ 765 Million".
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Warner music working with Impala Merlin to sell Parlophone assets
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In September 2020, Chrysalis signed the indie singer-songwriter
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After the 2016 purchase, Warner Music kept the rights to namely
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boss Robert Devereux was also part of the original consortium.
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that was founded in 1968. The name is both a reference to the
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Rest of the world: defunct, merged into Universal Music Group
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In the 1980s, Chrysalis was at the forefront of the British
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Official site for Chrysalis Records at Blue Raincoat Music
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In 1979, Chrysalis bought and distributed U.S. folk label
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In September 2012, after acquiring EMI's record labels,
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from the 1960s to 1990s. Artists on the roster include
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for distribution, based on the success of bands like
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UK and Europe: Independent record company, owned by
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https://www.blueraincoatmusic.com/chrysalisrecords/
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