Recored labels

Def jam recordings is a record label that is dominantly focussed on hip hop and urban music. The company is owned by Universal Music Group proving that it is one of the biggest companies in the music industry as it is a worldwide company because it is sponsoring acts in America, UK, and Japan. The company was founded in 1984 by Rick Rubin who works with not only people from the hip hop genre but he had previously worked with artists from other genres like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Aerosmith and other bands proving that he has had a lot of experience in leading up to working in the company and helping promote hip hop. Def Jam had done work with many influential artists in the hip hop genre such as Jay-Z and N-Dubz who are both very influential  artists in the development of this genre in the build up of events to making it such a popular genre. Showing that they worked with such previous big names would encourage new artists to sign with them, for example, Dappy and Ne-Yo who are currently very big right now and are very successful at his current time showing that they are probably one of the biggest companies in the current music industries.

Atlantic records is a company that is now very much associated with the hip hop genre but has adapted with the change in music because it was first founded in 1947 but began by mainly sponsoring blues/jazz music because that was the most popular genre of music at that present time. The parent company of the record label is Warner music group which is also a big worldwide company because Warner is a big sponsor of many films as well so it is a well known company worldwide meaning that it is very popular and successful. The company was founded by Ahmet Ertegun in 1947 who then died in 2006 at 84 years old; the company is now dominantly owned by Herb Abramson. The company had worked with big artists in the development of the hip hop genre with Dr Dre being the biggest figure they worked with during the development of the hip hop genre when it was up and coming to be what it is today. They now work with many big modern day artists in the hip hop genre like 3O3!H, Gnarls Barkley, Bruno Mars and Plan B being the biggest current people working for Atlantic records being from the hip hop genre. Having big manes such as these on their record label shows that they are a big successful company who are managing to sign big names and promote them all well.

G-unit records was founded in 2003 and the founder of the company was 50 cent. 50 cent was and still is a very big name in the hip hop genre and managed to help with it becoming such a big successful genre. The parent company is Interscope which is a very large successful company worldwide which shows that although this company was only founded 8 years it is very successful because of the other parent company of it. It is based in America and appeals to dominantly artists of the hip hop genre, for example,50 cent and Lloyd Banks  have all released songs through the company that were well released and successful. They are a growing company and are signing more and more names that are from the hip hop genre making the company bigger and more and more successful.