{{Short description|American record label}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox record label | name = Better Noise Music | image = 200px|class=skin-invert | image_bg = | founded = 2006 as Eleven Seven Music | founder = Allen Kovac | parent = Better Noise Entertainment | distributor = FUGA (Downtown Music Holdings) (worldwide)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/allen-kovacs-better-noise-signs-global-marketing-and-distribution-deal-with-fuga/|title=Allen Kovac's Better Noise signs global marketing and distribution deal with FUGA|date=December 11, 2019|website=Music Business Worldwide}}</ref> | genre = {{flatlist| * Hard rock * heavy metal * indie rock * alternative rock }} | country = United States | location = New York City, New York, Los Angeles, California, Nashville, Tennessee; Miami, Florida, Toronto, Canada; London, England; Berlin, Germany; Sydney, Australia | url = {{URL|betternoise.com}} }}
'''Better Noise Music'''<ref name="Variety">{{cite news |author=Variety Staff |title= Eleven Seven Label Group Rebrands As Better Noise |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/allen-kovac-eleven-seven-label-group-rebrand-new-name-better-noise-1203389035/| work=Variety |date=October 30, 2019 }}</ref> is an American record label founded in 2006 by Allen Kovac, CEO of 10th Street Entertainment. The label was previously known as '''Eleven Seven Label Group''' with Eleven Seven, Five Seven and Better Noise Records as imprints. They are an artist development label, developing new bands in the rock music genre.<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine |last1=Reesman |first1=Bryan |title=Eleven Seven Music's Role In Saving Rock: 'We Realized the Major Labels Were Giving Up on It' |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7617731/eleven-seven-music-motley-crue-buckcherry-hellyeah |accessdate=January 12, 2019 |magazine=Billboard |date=December 13, 2016}}</ref> The label recently announced an expanded alliance with FUGA<ref name="Complete Music Update">{{cite news |last1=Cooke |first1=Chris |title=Better Noise Ramps Up Its Alliance with Fuga |url=http://completemusicupdate.com/article/better-noise-ramps-up-its-alliance-with-fuga/ |work=Complete Music Update |date=December 13, 2019 |archive-date=August 4, 2023 |access-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804185630/https://completemusicupdate.com/article/better-noise-ramps-up-its-alliance-with-fuga/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was named 2019 Active Rock Label of the Year for the second consecutive year.<ref name="All Access">{{cite news |last1=Staff |first1=All Access |title= Better Noise Music Nabs #1 Mediabase Rock Label For Second Year | url= https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/192151/better-noise-music-nabs-1-mediabase-active-rock-la |work=All Access |date=December 10, 2019 }}</ref> In early 2020, Kovac launched sister company, Better Noise Films.<ref name="The Hollywood Reporter">{{cite news |last1=Vlessing |first1=Eitan |title= Music Producer Allen Kovac Launches Better Noise Films | url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-producer-allen-kovac-launches-better-noise-films-1290505 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=April 16, 2020 }}</ref>
The Eleven Seven Music label was the home of recording artists Papa Roach, and others.<ref name="Billboard"/>
==History== thumb|right|Eleven Seven Label Group ''Eleven Seven Label Group'' was founded in 2006 by Allen Kovac, CEO of 10th Street Entertainment, as the American parent company of a group of rock and alternative rock record labels. It is seen as a successor to Kovac's earlier label, Beyond Music, which existed between 1998 and 2002.<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |last=Martens |first=Todd |date=November 25, 2006 |title=The Buck Doesn't Stop Here |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQ4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=beyond+music&pg=PA49 |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |volume=118 |issue=47 |page=49 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref>
Eleven Seven Label Group was named ''Billboard'' magazine's Rock Label of the Year in 2010.<ref name="Music Row">{{cite news |last1=Nicholson |first1=Jessica |title=Hard Rock Label Eleven Seven Music Launches Nashville Venture With Flagship Artist Cory Marks |url=https://musicrow.com/2018/09/hard-rock-label-eleven-seven-music-launches-nashville-venture-with-flagship-artist-cory-marks/ |access-date=28 March 2019 |work=Music Row magazine |date=September 27, 2018}}</ref>
In 2009, Eleven Seven Label Group created an alternative/indie sub-label called Five Seven Music for alternative rock bands<ref>{{cite web |title=Eleven Seven Creates Five Seven For Alternative Acts |url=https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/56301/eleven-seven-creates-five-seven-for-alternative-ac |website=allaccess.com |access-date=12 January 2019}}</ref> such as Just Loud, Bleeker, Romes and Dirty Heads. The latter had three Top five ''Billboard'' alternative chart albums.<ref name="Billboard" /> Better Noise Records, another home for hard rock acts, was founded in 2015 as part of Eleven Seven.<ref name="Music Business Worldwide">{{cite news |title=DAN WAITE NAMED MD OF ELEVEN SEVEN LABEL GROUP IN EUROPE |url=https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/dan-waite-named-md-eleven-seven-label-group-europe/ |access-date=12 January 2019 |work=Music Business Worldwide |date=June 20, 2017}}</ref>
Eleven Seven expanded its base from New York City and Los Angeles, with the opening of international offices<ref name="Billboard" /> in Toronto, Canada and London, England in 2012, Sydney, Australia and Berlin, Germany in 2019, Paris, France in 2020 and Nashville, Miami in 2021.<ref name="BB 2">{{cite news |last1=Sutherland |first1=Mark |title=Dan Waite joins Eleven Seven Label Group as MD of E7LG-Europe |url=https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/dan-waite-joins-eleven-seven-label-group-as-md-of-e7lg-europe/069058 |access-date=4 November 2020 |work=Musicweek |date=July 19, 2017}}</ref> The company entered into a global partnership with Marshall Records in 2018 in order to bring Marshall artists to North and South America via Eleven Seven's distribution system.<ref name="Music Week">{{cite news |last1=Paine |first1=Andre |title='It's a great opportunity to join a winning team': Marshall Records partners with Eleven Seven Label Group |url=http://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/it-s-a-great-opportunity-to-join-a-winning-team-marshall-records-partners-with-eleven-seven-label-group/072390 |access-date=12 January 2019 |work=Music Week |date=May 7, 2018}}</ref>
In October 2019, Eleven Seven Label Group rebranded all the labels under the umbrella (Eleven Seven, Five Seven and Better Noise) to the new name of ''Better Noise Music'', and all releases since have been released under the label Better Noise Music.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/record-labels/8541133/eleven-seven-rebrand-better-noise-music |title=Eleven Seven Label Group Rebrands as Better Noise Music: Exclusive |first=Chris |last=Payne |magazine=billboard |date=October 29, 2019 |access-date=December 14, 2019}}</ref> Two months later, it signed a global marketing and distribution deal with FUGA, the Netherlands-based subsidiary of AVL Digital Group (itself a subsidiary of Downtown).<ref name="MBW">{{cite web |url=https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/allen-kovacs-better-noise-signs-global-marketing-and-distribution-deal-with-fuga |title=Allen Kovac's Better Noise signs global marketing and distribution deal with FUGA |first=Murray |last=Stassen |website=Music Business Worldwide |date=December 11, 2019 |access-date=November 27, 2020}}</ref>
In May 2023, Allen Kovac became Chairman of Better Noise, moving up President Dan Waite to the CEO position, and Steve Kline from COO to President/COO.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/dan-waite-named-better-noise-music-ceo-steve-kline-becomes-president-company-founder-allen-kovac-is-now-chairman/|title=Dan Waite named Better Noise Music CEO, Steve Kline becomes President; company founder Allen Kovac is now Chairman|date=May 18, 2023|website=Music Business Worldwide}}</ref>
==Roster== === Current === {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * All Good Things * As Lions * Asking Alexandria * Atlas Genius * Awolnation * Bad Wolves * Bleeker * Cory Marks * Classless Act * Crossbone Skully * Deuce * Dirty Heads * Eva Under Fire * Finish Ticket * Finger Eleven * Fire from the Gods * Five Finger Death Punch * The Funeral Portrait * From Ashes to New * The Hu * Hyro the Hero * In This Moment * Nevrlands * Nothing More * The Rasmus * Rews <small>(Marshall Records distribution deal)</small> * Sabaton * Solence * The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus * Tempt * Danny Worsnop * Yellowcard {{div col end}}
=== Former === {{div col}} * Anavae * Apocalyptica * Art of Dying * Attica Riots * Bang Bang Romeo * Buckcherry *CAVO * Charm City Devils * Diamante * Escape the Fate * The Exies * Hellyeah * In Flames * Islander * Jason Hook * Marion Raven * Mötley Crüe <small>(as the distributor of Mötley Records)</small><ref name="discogs">{{cite web |title=Mötley Records |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/34282-M%C3%B6tley-Records |website=discogs.com |accessdate=January 12, 2019}}</ref> * My Secret Circus * Papa Roach * Pop Evil * Press to MECO (Marshall Records distribution) * Rews (Marshall Records distribution) * Romes * Sixx:A.M. * Trapt * Tommy Vext {{div col end}}
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.betternoise.com/}}
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