Millennium Records

Millennium Records is a defunct record label started by record producer Jimmy Ienner in 1976. The label was initially distributed by the independent Casablanca label, run by another record industry mainstay, Neil Bogart.

The label's best-selling artist was electronic music pioneer Meco, whose disco cover of John Williams' "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" cues from Star Wars was a number 1 hit in 1977. In 1978, Meco followed up with two more movie-inspired hits for the label: a number 25 hit "Theme From Close Encounters" and a number 35 hit "Themes From The Wizard of Oz".

In 1981, Don McLean had three hits on the Millennium label: "Crying" which peaked at number 5; a number 23 song, "Since I Don't Have You" and a number 36 song, "Castles in the Air".[1]

Between 1981 and 1982, the band Franke & the Knockouts had three top 100 hits on Millennium: "Sweetheart" at number 10, "You're My Girl" at number 27, and "Without You" at number 24.

The company switched distribution to RCA Records in 1979, continuing with the arrangement until the label shut down in 1983.

During its RCA-distributed years, a significant portion of its output was content licensed from Canadian record labels.

Millennium is noteworthy for having passed on signing Madonna in 1981.


Discography

References

  1. ↑ "Chart info from The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 7th Edition - Meco Pg 420 and Don McLean Pg 418"

See also


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