# Koala Music

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{{Short description|Russian record label}}
{{Expand Russian|lang=null|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox record label
| name        = Koala Music
| founded     = {{start date and age|1999}}
| genre       = [Popular music](/source/Popular_music)
| country     = Russia
| location    = [Moscow](/source/Moscow)
}}
'''Koala Music''' (until 8 September 2022, known as '''Sony Music Russia''' or '''Sony Music Entertainment Russia'''; and until 18 September 2023, known as '''Kiss Koala''') is a Russian [record label](/source/record_label). Until in the fall of 2022, it was a division of [Sony Music Entertainment](/source/Sony_Music).

== History ==

=== 1999—2022: Sony Music Russia ===
The company opened its division in the Russian Federation on 1 December 1999.<ref name="Кисс Коала">{{Cite web |date=2022-09-08 |title=От Sony Music останется "Коала" |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5549427 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920173002/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5549427 |archive-date=2022-09-20 |access-date=2022-09-19 |website=[Коммерсантъ](/source/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8A) |language=ru}}</ref> In 2000, the company signed its first contract with Russian group [Bi-2](/source/Bi-2).

On 10 March 2022, after the [Russia's invasion of Ukraine](/source/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine), Sony Music Entertainment announced they would be suspending operations and releases in Russia, though Russian employees of [Sony Music Group](/source/Sony_Music_Group) would continue to receive salaries indefinitely.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-10 |title=Sony Music Group и Warner Music Group приостанавливают деятельность в России |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5251207 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811233638/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5251207 |archive-date=2022-08-11 |access-date=2022-09-19 |website=[Коммерсантъ](/source/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8A)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-10 |title=Вслед за Universal, из России уходит лейбл Sony Music. Warner выжидает |url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2022/03/10/70499501/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920173501/https://www.fontanka.ru/2022/03/10/70499501/ |archive-date=2022-09-20 |access-date=2022-09-19 |website=[Фонтанка.ру](/source/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0.%D1%80%D1%83) |language=ru}}</ref>

On 17 January 2023, the newspaper [Kommersant](/source/Kommersant) reported that former top managers of [Warner Music Russia](/source/Warner_Music_Group), who founded ООО "Мерит", a company associated with the Russian distributor S&P Digital, had purchased the label.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Лебедева |first=Валерия |date=2023-01-17 |title=Укрупненная музыкальная форма |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5772915 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116221424/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5772915 |archive-date=2023-01-16 |access-date=2023-02-27 |work=[Коммерсантъ](/source/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8A) |language=ru}}</ref>

== Current artists ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! style="background:#ffeca7; color:#2a323b" |Artist
! style="background:#ffeca7; color:#2a323b" |Real Name
|-
|[Sergey Lazarev](/source/Sergey_Lazarev)
|Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev 
|-
|[Alsou](/source/Alsou)
|Alsou Ralifovna Abramova
|-
|[GeeGun](/source/GeeGun)
|Denis Aleksandrovich Ustimenko
|-
|[Ramil’](/source/Ramil')
|Ramil Aleksandrovich Alimov 
|-
|VAVAN
|Vladimir Yurievich Selivanov
|-
|CMH
|Ruslan Sergeevich Tushentsov 
|-
|OG Buda
|Grigoriy Alekseevich Lyakhov 
|-
|Big Russian Boss
|Igor Alekseevich Seravin 
|-
|Young P&H
|Stanislav Dmitrievich Konchenkov
|-
|VESNA305
|Yuriy Andreevich Nikolaenko
|-
|Olehan
|Oleg Sergeevich Trempoltsev
|-
|Soska 69
|Nancy Olegovna Sosa
|-
|ALISHA
|Aaliya Adzharatu Lyudmila Ismailovna Kone
|-
|Кишлак
|Maksim Sergeevich Fisenko
|-
|Минин
|Mikhail Karenovich Kardashian
|-
|9mice
|Sergei Dmitriev 
|-
|Raikaho
|Viktor Likarenko
|-
|nyan.mp3
|Sergei Sergeevich Nalyotov 
|-
|FRIENDLY THUG 52 NGG
|Aleksandr Dmitrievich Romanov
|-
|Voskresenskii
|Evgeny Sergeevich Ostrovskiy
|-
|WhyBaby?
|(No Information)
|-
|dabbackwood
|(No Information)
|-
|Ицык Цыпер
|Igor Aleksandrovich Tsiba
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

Category:Record labels established in 1999
Category:Russian record labels

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