Interscope Records

3,537,303 listeners (47,526,305 plays)

Share

17 shouts

Interscope Records is one of the best in the music industry. They boast artists such as Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Eminem, U2 & Black Eyed Peas. Interscope Records is hugely successful and a lot of their artists have gone multi-platinum.

Dr. Dre signed a deal with Interscope president, Jimmy Iovine to own his own record label (Aftermath Entertainment) which would parent under Interscope Records. Aftermath Record became hugely sucessful with their artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent, Eve & Busta Rhymes. After signing Eminem, Dr. Dre gave Eminem permission to start his own record label, Shady Records, which would be a joint company to Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainemnt.

Shady/Aftermath Records still lives on today as one of the greatest hip-hop labels. After signing 50 Cent to their label on a joint deal, Dr. Dre and Eminem were very optismistic. And they were right, 50 Cent sold 11 milion records of his debut album, ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. 50 Cent started his own G-Unit Records which would parent under Interscope Records.

Other Artists would create labels under Interscope including Timaland’s Mosley Music (Keri Hilson, One Republic, Chris Cornell…), Akon’s Kon Live (Lady GaGa, Kardinall Offishall…), DGC (The All-American Rejects, Black Tide, Papa Roach, Weezer…), etc…

In 2010 they discovered a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Brazil, Marcy Mars and they are distributing her music now. She is being compared to Bob Dylan on the site jango.com and receiving a lot of positive reviews about her originality.
Read more… Edit

Top Albums

See more

Weekly Top Tracks

1
11,433
2
9,246
3
5,516
4  
5,080
5
4,372
6
4,240
7
4,164
8
4,125
9
3,783
10
2,645
See more

Shouts

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).
See all 17 shouts

Listeners

See more

Events

See more

Recent Activity

Connected Groups

See more
“Tell Them About The Last.fm, Mummy.”

More Last.fm Sites: Blog | Music Manager | Build | Playground (Subscriber VIP zone) | Best of 2011

© 2012 Last.fm Ltd. All rights reserved. | Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | Updated Feb 11, 2009
Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Text may also be available under the GNU Free Documentation License.