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Univision Music Group is a
Latin music
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company in the United States. Founded in April 2001 by
Univision Communications
TelevisaUnivision (formerly known as Univision Communications) is a Mexican-American media company headquartered in New York and Mexico City, which owns the American Spanish language broadcast network Univision. 45% of the company is held by the ...
, the Univision Music Group included three
record label
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s: Univision Records,
Fonovisa Records
Fonovisa Records is an American Spanish language record label founded in 1984 by Guillermo Santiso as a subsidiary of Televisa. Its former name before being acquired by Televisa in 1984 was Profono Internacional, which was founded in 1978. Fonov ...
and
Disa Records
Disa Records is a privately owned record label based in San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico. Specializing in Spanish language recordings, the company's works are distributed in the United States by Universal Music Group.
Univision Mus ...
. In June 2001, Univision Music acquired a 50% interest in Mexico-based Disa Records, the second largest independent
Spanish language
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record label in the world, and Mexico's leading
independent label
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. More recently in April 2002, Univision acquired Fonovisa, the largest Latin independent label specializing in
Regional Mexican music
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.
Its headquarters were located in
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California; the company had planned to move its headquarters to Woodland Hills in 2002.
[Univision Music Group Completes Acquisition of Fonovisa Creating a Leading Latin Music Company in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico]
" Univision. Retrieved on March 30, 2010. Univision Music Group also had an extensive and growing publishing business as well as an exclusive distribution and licensing agreement with
Universal Music & Video Distribution
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for several of its labels in the U.S.,
Puerto Rico
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and Mexico. The music group was bought by Universal Music Group in February 2008 and absorbed into
Universal Music Latin Entertainment
Universal Music Latin Entertainment, a division of Universal Music Group, is a record company specialized in producing and distributing Latin music in Mexico, the United States, and Puerto Rico. UMLE includes famous Latin music labels such as Uni ...
.
Labels
Univision Records (2001-2008)
Launched mid
2001
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.
* In 2003, Jennifer Peña became the only female artist nominated for a
Grammy
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in the "
Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album"
Fonovisa Records
Acquired in
2002
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,
Fonovisa is the largest Regional Mexican label in the music industry and since 1984 has launched major Latin stars into international markets and mainstream America.
* Fonovisa's impressive roster of over 120 artists include
multi-platinum
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artists
Marco Antonio Solís
Marco Antonio Solís Sosa (born 29 December 1959) is a Mexican musician, singer, composer, and record producer.
Born and raised in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán, Solís began his musical career at the age of six, performing part of Los Hermanito ...
,
La Banda el Recodo
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, Conjunto Primavera,
Ana Bárbara
Altagracia Ugalde Mota (born January 10, 1971), better known as Ana Bárbara, is a Mexican singer, actress, television personality and model. She has become a prominent figure within Latin entertainment since her professional debut in 1994 and is ...
,
Los Temerarios
Los Temerarios are a Mexican Grupera band from Fresnillo, Zacatecas started in 1978 by brothers Adolfo Angel and Gustavo Angel and their cousin Fernando Angel. During their early years, they were known as ''Conjunto La Brisa''.
''Los Temerario ...
, and the legendary
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte (English: ''The Tigers of the North'') are a norteño band from San Jose, California. Originally founded in Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico, with sales of 60 million albums, the band is one of the most recognized groups in the g ...
.
In 2009 Fonovisa Records celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Disa Records
Disa Records
Disa Records is a privately owned record label based in San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico. Specializing in Spanish language recordings, the company's works are distributed in the United States by Universal Music Group.
Univision Mus ...
is the second largest Regional-Mexican label after Fonovisa. It was owned by the Chávez family of
Monterrey
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until June 2001, when Univision acquired 50% of Disa from the Chávez family. In November 2006 Univision acquired the other 50% of the label making it a subsidiary of Univision Music Group.
* Disa represents over 50 artists, including Palomo, Los Angeles Azules,
Grupo Bryndis
Grupo Bryndis is a Mexican Grupera band from Cerritos, San Luis Potosí, - though founded in Santa Paula, California in 1983 by Mauro Posadas, the band is a Latin Grammy Award winner. The band performs in the balada tecnocumbia, grupera genres.Ál ...
, Liberación, El Poder del Norte, and most recently, renowned Mexican actress and singer,
Aracely Arámbula
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Life and career
Early life
Aracely Arambula Jacques was born in Chihu ...
.
*In the second quarter of
2004
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Events January
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, Univision Music Group recording labels held the #1 position in the U.S. Latin music industry with an estimated 45% market 10.
*Univision Music Group recording labels consistently averaged 5 of the top 10
best-selling albums on
Billboard Magazine
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's weekly Latin charts in 2004.
*Univision Music labels accounted for approximately half of the regional Mexican music sold in the U.S. in the first half of 2004.
*In the first two quarters of 2004, Univision Music recording artists Jennifer Peña, Los Temerarios, Los Tigres del Norte, and Marco Antonio Solís topped Billboard's music charts debuting at #1 in
SoundScan
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sales.
*By the second quarter of 2004 several UMG artists, including include Marco Antonio Solís, Los Temerarios, Los Tigres del Norte, Conjunto Primavera, Jennifer Peña, Akwid,
Jae-P, and
Adán "Chalino" Sánchez, garnered
Gold
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and
Platinum
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Platinu ...
status for sales ranging from 100,000 to one million units.
See also
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List of record labels
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References
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Latin American music record labels
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Record labels established in 2001
Record labels disestablished in 2008
Universal Music Latin Entertainment
Former Univision Communications subsidiaries