Entertainment One Music


eOne's Music and Live division spans records, publishing, management and live events. The division distributes its own digital content, with physical distribution handled by ADA in the U.S. and German indie SPV GmbH in Europe.
Entertainment One Music has 125 employees with offices around the world and has a roster of over 150 artists. Its rights library includes more than 80,000 hours of film and television content, approximately 40,000 music tracks and includes the labels Dualtone, Last Gang, Light Records and Death Row. With the acquisition of Round Room Entertainment, the company includes live entertainment production as part of its portfolio.
The eOne music division's management group represents over 70 artists including Alice Ivy, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Fred Again, Tegan and Sara, Kaytranada, Jax Jones, The Black Madonna, Lights and Arkells.

Company history

eOne formed its music division in February 2004 as Koch Records to serve as the North American umbrella for Koch Entertainment. It signed country, classical and rock acts including Ringo Starr, Joan Baez, Chris Brubeck, Bob James, and an exclusive distribution with Suge Knight's Death Row Records. In the 2000s, the company began to sign more hip hop acts.
Koch was renamed E1 Music in 2009. It acquired IndieBlu Music, parent of Artemis Records, in 2010.
With the name change in 2010 to Entertainment One Music, it relaunched its country division, eOne Nashville.
In January 2016, eOne acquired the music company Dualtone Records.
In March 2016, eOne announced Christopher Taylor as the new Global President of eOne Music, bringing his music label Last Gang to the eOne roster. Since his arrival at eOne, Taylor has been selected as "Indie Power Player" by Billboard for three consecutive years in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
In November 2016, eOne announced Ted May as the new Director of eOne Music in the UK to establish the first music division outside of North America.
eOne Music Canada is manages the Standstills, 54-40, Mozart, Rival Sons and Matt Dusk. eOne Music UK manages artists such as Riton and Kah-Lo and Big Zuu.
In 2016, Billboard ranked Entertainment One the #2 indie label in the U.S.. Lumineers had 2 #1 songs on AAA radio and Alternative Radio and the group's gold album Ophelia debuted at #1 on the Top 200. eOne also had the #1 rap album with The Game.
In 2016, management firms Hardlivings and Nerve joined eOne's management division.
In March 2018, eOne Music acquired Round Room Live.
In 2019, Tegan and Sara management firm Amelia Artists joined the eOne management division. Later in 2019, Latin management and marketing team Entotal joined eOne's management division.