Before LaFace Records and So So Def Recordings, there was Black Swan Records, a record company by Georgian Harry Pace that released music by Black artists for Black listeners.

On Desert Island Discs, the former Motown Records boss Berry Gordy selected the one track he couldn't live without, which had been a hit for his label in 1965.

Morgan Wallen and Sabrina Carpenter (the latter whose label Island Records is included in REPUBLIC’s market share along with Cash Money, Wallen’s labels Mercury and Big Loud and indie ...