Apollo Recordings was a British

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established in 2006 by Matt Jagger. It was an imprint of Universal-Island Records, part of the

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corporation. Their first release "

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" by Meck featuring

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was a number one hit on the

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in February 2006. Apollo was run in conjunction with the

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imprint, but both were closed down by Universal in 2007.

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