Jive Records

Jive Records
Jive Records
Parent company	Sony Music Entertainment
Founded	1981
Founder	Clive Calder
Defunct	October 7, 2011
Status	Inactive;
Distributor(s)	Legacy Recordings (reissues)
Genre	Various
Country of origin	United States
Location	New York, Chicago

Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group. In the US, the label had offices in New York City and Chicago. Jive was best known for its successes with hip hop, R&B, and dance acts in the 1980s and 1990s, along with teen pop and boy bands during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Jive was acquired by Bertelsmann Music Group in 2002.^[2] In 2008, BMG itself was bought out by Sony Music Entertainment.^[3] Jive Records thereupon remained a unit wholly owned by Sony up until the label’s dissolution in 2011, when Jive was absorbed into RCA Records.

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^ Brandle, Lars; Christman, Ed; Spahr, Wolfgang (April 5, 2003). "BMG 2002 Profits Up; Zomba Cuts Begin". Billboard. p. 7.
^ Kreps, Daniel (October 2, 2008). "Sony Buys Out Bertelsmann, Ending Sony BMG". Rolling Stone.

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[:3-2] Brandle, Lars; Christman, Ed; Spahr, Wolfgang (April 5, 2003). "BMG 2002 Profits Up; Zomba Cuts Begin". Billboard. p. 7.

[3] Kreps, Daniel (October 2, 2008). "Sony Buys Out Bertelsmann, Ending Sony BMG". Rolling Stone.

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