Record Label - Distribution of artist

Virgin Records/Capitol Music Group
-A British record label formed in 1972 by Richard Branson, Simon Draper and Nik Powell.
-Virgin Records distributed in the United States in 1973 and was distributed for 2 years, from 1973 -1975, by Atlantic. They used the name 'Caroline Records' for their distribution in the USA until 1977 and was used for some American editions of Virgin Records in the 1980's and 90's.
- In 1986 Virgin Records released an independent company called Virgin Records America to distribute music in America. They also released an independent Virgin Records Canada inc. in Canada three years before Virgin Records America.

Virgin Records was bought by Thorn EMI in 1992 for $1 billion.
Virgin Records was then merged with Capitol Records in 2007 to make Capitol Music Group due to a massive reconstructing of EMI Group Ltd.

Virgin Records have distributed a variety of genres of music especially punk-rock artists such as Human League and Sex Pistols. Ever since Thorn EMI bought Virgin the list has expanded to such genres and artists as The Chemical Brothers, Gorillaz, Paula Abdul and the Spice Girls. They have a mixture well-known genres such as pop, RnB and rock but they also have artists who sing less known genres such as ska.

Distribution of Band
The record label has distributed a selection of popular genres as well as some not as well-known. They have also distributed bands/artists from a similar type of genre of the band I am using.