Vale Music was a Spanish record label founded and chaired by Ricardo Campoy. Together with executives Narcís Rebollo and Gabriel Blanco, who came from Campoy's previous record label, Max Music.

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acquired the label in 2006, thus forming part of the world's largest music company. Its headquarters were in

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and was founded at the end of 1997. It became the largest record label in Spain. The Spanish company started its career specializing in 'dance' music and compilation albums such as ''Caribe'', ''Disco Estrella'', ''Todo Éxitos'' and ''Superventas'', besides being the record label of several television projects such as ''

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'', '' Gran Hermano'' and ''

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''. Some of their artists have had great success since they left Spain to conquer new markets in other countries, such as

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and

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(Latin America, Europe, United States, Asia) and to a lesser extent,

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and

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. They were also national successes singers such as Coyote Dax,

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and

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. The releases of Vale Music have generated worldwide sales of more than 14 million albums of individual artists and more than 7 million of compilation albums. The artists and repertoire are now under the label

Vale Music artists

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