The label's first release was ( Super Numeri member ) Pop Levi's single " Blue Honey " in September 2006, and was followed by Pop Levi's debut album The Return To Form Black Magick Party in February 2007.

" KRS-101 ( the label's first release ) was in fact a split 7 " spoken-word record with Kathleen Hanna and Slim Moon ; other " Wordcore " releases followed.

The label's first releases were traditional " hot " jazz and boogie woogie, and the label's first hit was a performance of " Summertime " by soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, which Bechet had been unable to record for the established companies.

" Organist Jimmy Smith was signed in 1956, and performed on the label's first 12 " LP album of new recordings.

In 1982 Minneapolis hardcore group Hüsker Dü became the label's first non-West Coast signing.

A lavish media party was also held at Chislehurst Caves in Kent, England on 31 October 1974, to celebrate the label's first UK release by the Pretty Things, Silk Torpedo ( the first US release for Swan Song was the self-titled debut album from Bad Company in June 1974 ).

The label's first release was a various artists compilation entitled The Everlastin ' Living Jesus Music Concert, in 1971.

Its first release for the label was Bad Religion's 1981 self-titled EP, followed by their debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse ?, which was also the label's first full-length release.

The label's first LP was Throbbing Gristle's debut LP The Second Annual Report which was limited to 786 copies.

Alexakis produced the label's first release, the 2002 album Volume by Flipp.

* Revella Hughes, soprano featured on one of the label's first releases

She had the label's first commercially successful records, and remained their best seller.

Monument Records ' first release in October 1958, was also the label's first hit.

The label's first EP was Lowe's 1977 four-track release Bowi, apparently named in response to David Bowie's contemporaneous LP Low.

Piccadilly's release of Brown's " Crazy Mixed Up Kid " in April 1961 was the label's first single.

In August 2005, Roadrunner Records reissued their self-titled first album as part of the label's 25th anniversary celebration.

The first version featured an orange golf shirt on the cover and was produced by My Records ( owned by Joey Cape from Lagwagon ) as the label's debut album.

The label's first full-length release was Negative FX's self-titled album, which was recorded in 1982.

The first bands performing the Founded in the 1960s, Love Records was one of the first domestic record labels dedicated to Finnish rock music, even though the label's roster also included jazz and political songs.

Notable later releases included Free Kitten and Bis while the commercial success of Cornershop from 1997 rewarded the label's long-term support.

" Poneman explained the label's success:

Gaye was one of many who shaped the sound and success of Motown Records in the 1960s, becoming that label's top-selling solo artist of that decade with a string of hits including " How Sweet It Is ( To Be Loved By You )", " Ain't That Peculiar ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.

Neither of their singles reached mainstream success and the group eventually settled as background session vocalists for the label's star acts, including Chuck Berry, Etta James and Diddley.

The album's lone single, " It's Only Love " failed to chart, but many blame the album's poor success on the record label's lack of promotion.

Ignoring their record label's advice and vowing to " fight or fall ," the group's next album, 2112, ultimately paved the way for lasting commercial success despite opening with a 20-and-a-half-minute conceptual title track.

However, he was overwhelmed by Epitaph's new popularity ( including the unexpected success of the label's then-current acts The Offspring and Rancid ) and decided to quit Bad Religion once again in 1994.

By the late 1990s, despite its reputation for dealing heavily in hip-hop, Jive signed pop acts Backstreet Boys, ' N Sync, and Britney Spears — all of whom achieved massive success as the 2000s dawned, and would become the three best-selling acts in the label's history.

The Geffen label's meteoric rise to prominence within the year proved a bittersweet success.

Initially specializing in electronic music genres such as alternative dance and industrial, the label also became a powerful player in pop and rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the mainstream success of artists such as The Grapes of Wrath and the label's best-known artist, Sarah McLachlan.

They were signed to Death Row Records in their early careers and were key to the label's success.

Additionally, the success of the single directly led to 415 Records signing a deal with Columbia Records, which elevated the indie label's roster to major-label status.

Some of the label's releases garnered some regional success in New Orleans, Louisiana, but the label was little known to the national rap scene.

's Chopper City in the Ghetto, and Lil Wayne's Tha Block Is Hot also saw great chart success and furthered the label's reputation.

The label's success continued into the 21st century.

The gig at King Tut's was a huge success and was seen by established Glasgow rockers Aereogramme, then signed to Chemikal Underground Records, who brought the duo to the label's attention.

Newhart provided the label's next major commercial breakthrough — in May 1960, three months after the success of " Cathy's Clown ", Newhart's debut album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart went straight to # 1 in the U. S., staying at the top for fourteen weeks, charting for more than two years and selling more than 600, 000 copies.

Their second album Communiqué ( 1979 ) made the Top 20 in many countries and earned another gold record award in the U. S. WBR also enjoyed renewed success with comedy recordings in this period, transferring Richard Pryor from Reprise and signing rising star Steve Martin, whose second Warner album A Wild and Crazy Guy ( 1978 ) became one of the label's biggest comedy hits — it reached # 2 on the pop album chart, won the 1979 Grammy for ' Best Comedy Album ', and Martin's novelty single " King Tut " was a US Top 20 hit.

Regarding its production and promotion, the label's senior director of marketing Connie Baer said that she wanted to raise Walker's profile as an artist, as both she and Johnson thought that he did not have the same level of recognition as other artists with similar album sales and chart success.

The label's next release the Avalanches's Since I Left You ( 2000 ) was a huge critical success, earning the group nine ARIA Award nominations.

French was her record label's biggest artist but due to them achieving limited success with their other acts they went into liquidation.

After the relative success of the ARTISTdirect family of music-related websites, co-founder and then-CEO Marc Geiger decided to start an actual record label, leading to the creation of the Ineffable imprint with Berg in 2002, with Germano as the label's first signing.

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon was the label's biggest success in this period when it was re-issued on LP in the Original Master Recording series in 1979.

The album's success in Canada led to a record contract with Arista Nashville, becoming one of the label's flagship artists.