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Phonag Records

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Parent company
  
TBA AG

Country of origin
  
Switzerland

Official website
  
phonag.ch

Parent organization
  
TBA AG

Genre
  
Various

Location
  
Glattbrugg

Founded
  
1990

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Albums
  
Tomorrow May Not Be Better, To Rock or Not to Be, Round 13, Day of Glory, Ewigi Liebi ‑ Das Musical

Phonag Records is a major record label in Switzerland based in Glattbrugg, Switzerland. It was founded in 1960 as Phonag Schallplatten AG later renamed Records AG. In 2007, Phonag Records AG was taken over by TBA AG with Phonag remaining an independent marketing and rep company under this new ownership.

It is best known for the label Helvetia. Phonag also distributes Swiss national labels Gadget, Zytglogge, Turicaphon and many international record labels. It has exclusive contracts with a number of Swiss artists such as Florian Ast und Francine Jordi, DJ Antoine, Bastian Baker, Remady and Mike Candys.

Besides album and singles releases, the company is into publishing through Globi Verlag. It also marketed electronic Atari game consoles including Pac-man etc., a series of Arkade compilations and later on VHS video cassettes.

According to IFPI Switzerland, it had also nearly two-thirds of the digital sales and downloads in Switzerland.

References

Phonag Records Wikipedia