A&M Octone Records

After successful signing, release, marketing and promotion on Octone, artists were given the option of upstreaming to RCA Music Group, via a joint-venture between the two companies.Upon launch, Diener and Octone Records were also well known in the music industry for their entrepreneurial private-equity financing model.[3] In February 2007, Interscope-Geffen-A&M partnered with Octone Records to relaunch the A&M label, headed by James Diener and called A&M/Octone Records with worldwide distribution handled by parent Universal Music Group.The existing Octone roster was transferred to the A&M/Octone label and all new artist signings were made under the A&M/Octone joint venture.A&M/Octone Records), the name derives from the merger of the labels Octone and Interscope.
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