550 Music

Local rock band Eve's Plum was its first signing, among six more acts. Anthony became its president in 1994. Through the efforts of Alan McGee that year, it hosted Velvet Crush's debut album Teenage Symphonies to God (1994), with the single "Hold Me Up", after the band's earlier work with McGee's Creation Records. John Doelp was its vice president. "[W]e didn't try to go out and get the biggest stars", he recalled. But by 1995 the label had featured work by Celine Dion and Des'ree, among others. In 1997, he told Billboard magazine that they hadn't "gotten to the moon yet". 550's marketing strategy for Dion was global and collaboration-oriented. She praised their efforts, saying that collaborators were "knocking.. Because there are magnificent people surrounding me". The label commissioned producer David Foster, songwriter Linda Thompson, and co-writer Walter Afanasieff to create the Streisand–Dion duet "Tell Him". Epic began consolidating 550's business operations in 2000, as Tommy Mottola left Sony Music.

• Name — 550 Music • Parent — Sony Music • Founded — 1992 or 1993 • Defunct — 2000 • Status — Defunct • Distributor — Epic Records (in the United States) • Genre — Various • Country — U.S. • Location — New York City, New York • Url — epicrecords.com

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