Parent company PIAS Official website www.pias.com Country of origin United Kingdom | Location London Founded 2005 Parent organization Play It Again Sam | |
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Albums Kin, Concrete Love, Bounty, Anna, Beat the Devil's Tattoo | ||
PIAS Cooperative, formerly Cooperative Music, often referred to as Co-Op, is a group of indie labels based in the UK but that have offices around the world, owned by [PIAS]. In 2015, labels part of [PIAS] Cooperative are Bella Union, Moshi Moshi, Heavenly, Brille, ATO Records, DFA Records, Infectious Records, Sunday Best, Transgressive Records, Wichita Recordings, 1965 Records, 37 Adventures, Lucky Number.
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Through their partner labels Cooperative music work with artists like iamamiwhoami, Phoenix, Bloc Party, The Knife, Fleet Foxes, Prinzhorn Dance School, Citizens!, Interpol, The Black Keys and Mumford & Sons.
History
In April 2005, Cooperative Music was set up by the V2 Music Group as a transnational marketing and distribution operation which licenses independent labels, as opposed to individual artist companies which is the standard industry practice, for release in Europe, Australia and Japan. This in-house licensing division has an exclusive international marketing team with representation in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Australia and Japan.
In February 2013 [PIAS] acquired Co-Op from Universal Music Group. http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/confirmed-universal-sells-co-op/053773
Partner labels
Offices
[PIAS]‘s local operations around the world
With 16 offices around the world, [PIAS] has a presence in every major music market worldwide: