Her Royal Majesty's Records (HRMR) is a Canadian

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founded in

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, British Columbia in 1995 by

Bif Naked Beth Nicole Torbert (born June 15, 1971) is a Canadian singer best known by her stage name Bif Naked. Between 1996 and 2016, she was among the top 150 selling Canadian artists in Canada. She charted #1 on Billboard Canada for the single Spacema ...

and Peter Karroll and managed by Peter Karroll. Originally HRM Records was created as Bif Naked's

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after Plum Records became defunct after the release of Bif Naked's 1994 self-titled release. Peter Karroll licensed Bif's songs to many major labels and did co-venture music projects including mixing and recording tracks for Films and Television. Peter Karroll co-wrote, produced and mixed many successful tracks including Platinum and Gold selling albums and singles with Bif Naked. In 2005 Peter Karroll merged the music label with Calvin Ayre's ''Bodog Entertainment''ʼs record label; ''Bodog Music''. HRM Records was the backbone of the Bodog entertainment juggernaut and combined with the World Wrestling Entertainment, LLC's Artist Management company TKO Entertainment Corp that financed and directed the Bodog Entertainment entity in producin over 150

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shows in the U.S. and licensed in many countries. As well live events on

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and music television programing on the Fuse Network all contributed to the overall success of Bodog Entertainment. In 2008, the entertainment companies were unmerged and Peter Karroll moved forward more albums with Bif Naked and the American rap/hip hop rapper icon DMX. During the Bodog Era, Peter signed and released the Legendary Hip Hop group the

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. With thousands of live events were produced with the Artists from HRMR/Bodog with them touring extensively on major festivals and

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such as

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at Rock Am Park,

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. Bif Naked's largest attendance in the headline position was 2011 in Cloverdale, B.C. where she performed in front of 110,000 estimated audience. It has released albums via Worldwide Distribution deals with

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's Distribution network,

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and

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Artist roster

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/ acoustic (certified multi platinum & gold) * Britt Black - alternative/rock * Dead Celebrity Status - rap/hip-hop *The Heck - rock *Hydro and Syndicate Villain - rap/hip-hop *

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* Nazanin -

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*Wu-Tang Clan - hip-hop (certified multi-platinum) * Out of Your Mouth - hard rock/heavy metal *Soma City Ward -

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- rock * The Vincent Black Shadow -

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/acoustic rock/electronica *Jaydee Bixby - country rock *Mr. Crippin (Chris Crippin) *DMX (rapper), DMX - rap/hip hop (certified multi-platinum)

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