Capitol Records

American record label

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2024 Capitol Records became part of UMG's Interscope Capitol Labels Group.
2024 Sony Music acquired the Pink Floyd catalogue worldwide for $400 million.
April 30 2022 Paul McCartney and Giles Martin oversaw the recording of string overdubs for 'Now and Then', the final Beatles song ever to be released, at Capitol Studios.
2021 Michelle Jubelirer was named the Chair & CEO of Capitol Records.
2019 Jeff Vaughn was named President of Capitol Records.
2019 Universal Audio releases officially licensed software emulations of Capitol Studios' four most popular echo chambers, digitally preserving their unique acoustic characteristics.
2018 Capitol's electronic division Astralwerks relaunched with a new team and moved its entire operations to Capitol's tower in Los Angeles.
2016 Capitol Studios celebrated its 60th anniversary.
2014 Katy Perry founded Metamorphosis Music (later renamed Unsub Records in 2016) as a label venture with Capitol. Capitol also rose to number two in market share and won four Grammy Awards for music by Beck and Sam Smith.
April 2013 Capitol Records successfully took legal action against ReDigi.com, with the court ruling that the online company violated copyright law by facilitating the creation of additional copies of digital music files.
2012 Universal Music Group acquired most of EMI's recorded music operations, gaining ownership of the Tower Records catalog through Capitol.
2012 Capitol Studios launched the '1 Mic 1 Take' series of stripped-down live performances produced exclusively at the studio.
2012 Studio A's control room was updated with a Neve 88RS recording console, with Paul McCartney's iTunes Live from Capitol Studios being the first project to use the new console.
2010 Paul McCartney recorded most of his 2012 album 'Kisses on the Bottom' at Capitol Studios.

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