{{Short description|Record label}} {{infobox record label | bgcolor = #000000 | name = {{color|white|OctoScope Music, LLC}} | image = [[File:A&M Octone Records logo.svg|200px|class=skin-invert]] | parent = [[Universal Music Group]] | founder = [[James Diener]] David Boxenbaum | founded = {{start date and age|2000}} (as Octone Records)<br>{{start date and age|2007}} (as A&M Octone Records) | status = Defunct | defunct = {{start date and age|2014}} | distributor = [[Interscope Geffen A&M Records|Interscope Geffen A&M]] <small>(United States)</small><br />[[Polydor Records|Polydor]] <small>(United Kingdom)</small><br />Universal Music Group <small>(international)</small><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.universalmusic.com/labels|title=Labels - Universal Music|work=universalmusic.com}}</ref> | genre = Various | country = United States | location = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] }}
'''A&M Octone Records''' was an American [[record label]] owned as a joint venture between [[James Diener]] and [[Universal Music Group]]. A full-service artist development label, it was founded in 2007 as a merger between Octone and [[Interscope Geffen A&M Records|Interscope Geffen A&M]]'s defunct [[A&M Records]] label. For its six years of existence, A&M Octone operated music publishing, merchandising, and touring entities, in addition to specializing in recorded music.
In September 2013, Octone initiated its buy/sell rights in the joint venture, resulting in Interscope Geffen A&M purchasing Octone's 50% interest in A&M Octone, with [[Interscope Records|Interscope]] absorbing and restructuring its artist roster in 2014.<ref name="billboard.com">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/5748123/interscope-geffen-am-acquires-remaining-share-of-amoctone-records|title=Interscope Geffen A&M Acquires Remaining Share of A&M/Octone Records|magazine=Billboard}}</ref>
==Overview==
===History=== Launched in 2000, Octone Records was founded by CEO/President [[James Diener]] and distributed through [[Bertelsmann Music Group]] (known as [[Sony BMG]] from 2004 to 2008, now [[Sony Music]]). After successful signing, release, marketing and promotion on Octone, artists were given the option of upstreaming to [[RCA Music Group]], via a joint-venture between the two companies. Upon launch, Diener and Octone Records were also well known in the music industry for their entrepreneurial private-equity financing model.<ref>{{cite web | last = Nancy | first = Hass | title = Sounds Like Money | work = Portfolio | date = April 16, 2007 | url = http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/03/29/Sounds-Like-Money | access-date = February 8, 2010 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100318020928/http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/03/29/Sounds-Like-Money| archive-date= 18 March 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
In February 2007, [[Interscope-Geffen-A&M]] partnered with Octone Records to relaunch the A&M label, headed by James Diener and called A&M/Octone Records with worldwide distribution handled by parent Universal Music Group. The existing Octone roster was transferred to the A&M/Octone label and all new artist signings were made under the A&M/Octone joint venture.<ref>{{cite magazine | last = Todd | first = Martens | title = Interscope Geffen A&M Shifting To Octone | magazine = Billboard | date = February 20, 2007 | url = http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i00c30daf8fb3b8f13ac1a1dbdc1e2cb2 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070223092231/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i00c30daf8fb3b8f13ac1a1dbdc1e2cb2 | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 23, 2007 | access-date = February 8, 2010}}</ref>
The legal name of the A&M/Octone label was "OctoScope Music, LLC" (d.b.a. A&M/Octone Records), the name derives from the merger of the labels Octone and Interscope. OctoScope Music, LLC was the copyright holder on all A&M/Octone releases. A&M/Octone Records operated from 2007 until 2014.
===Executive staff=== * [[James Diener]], CEO/president * David Boxenbaum, general manager/chief operating officer * Ben Berkman, EVP/head of promotion * Rome Thomas, senior vice president sales & artist development * Nina Webb, head of marketing * Roi Hernandez, head of creative services & electronic A&R * Yu-Ting Lin, vice president A&R admin & label operations
==Former recording artists == * [[Maroon 5]] * [[K'Naan]] * [[Flyleaf (band)|Flyleaf]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newreleasetuesday.com/article.php?article_id=1300|title=Flyleaf's Kristen May: Ready to Begin (Again)|work=newreleasetuesday.com}}</ref> * [[Hollywood Undead]] * [[Kat Graham]] * [[The Hives]] * [[The Knocks]] * [[Bombay Bicycle Club]] * Hunter Hunted * [[Drop City Yacht Club]] * [[Kevin Hammond (singer-songwriter)|Kevin Hammond]] * Duncan * [[Churchill (band)|Churchill]] * [[As Fast As]] * [[Dropping Daylight]] * [[Paper Tongues]] * [[Michael Tolcher]] * [[Miss Willie Brown]] * White Light Motorcade
==See also== * [[Geffen Records]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *A&M/Octone Records official website (site no longer active) *[http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/507082-PDF-ENG Octone Records] [[Harvard Business School]] case study *[https://www.latimes.com/features/la-mag-june072009-james-diener,0,5031505.story June 2009 Los Angeles Times] interview *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100116051505/http://money.cnn.com/video/fortune/2010/01/12/f_octone_record_music.fortune January 2010 CNN/Money] video profile *[http://www.nyreport.com/articles/73035/octone March 2010 NY Enterprise Report] cover story * [https://www.wsj.com/video/walkabout-ny-downtown-club-history-101/E8F0B9C0-CB3C-43A5-9F22-A075E1EDBFCB.html September 2010 Wall Street Journal "Walkabout NY" Interview] * [https://hbr.org/product/a-m-octone-records-all-rights-or-nothing/an/511031-PDF-ENG?Ntt=james%2520diener A&M/Octone Records - Harvard Business School Case Study Part II] * [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/150/waving-the-flag.html?page=0%2C6 November 2010 Fast Company on A&M/Octone Records, K'Naan & Coca Cola] * [http://www.brandchannel.com/home/post/2011/01/27/Music-Brands-Coke-Knaan-2010-FIFA-World-Cup-Campaign.aspx January 2011 MIDEM Convention panel in Cannes, Frances w/James Diener discussing K'Naan/Coca Cola World Cup campaign & A&M/Octone artist development]
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