Edel Music

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Edel Music was founded in 1986 by Michael Haentjes in Germany as a mail order record company selling mostly soundtracks. With artists such as Scooter, Holly Johnson and many others, it became a very successful pop music label. Edel went to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 1998.

Over the years Edel purchased Eagle Rock Records, Facedown Records, Gang Go Music, Club Tools, Control Records and Belgian Play It Again Sam.

Edel main office is based in Hamburg but the edel network extends the label presence all over Europe with affiliates offices and labels and in the rest of the world with a strong network of distributors, edel is in fact still present in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, [[Denmark], France, UK.

In the most recent years edel released studio albums by Lisa Stansfield, Deep Purple, Gregorian, Chris Rea, Jerry Lee Lewis, Status Quo, Ali Campbell (UB40), Jon Lord, Glenn Hughes, Turbonegro and its roster is becoming among the strongest in the independent industry.

Edel Music is also well known for book publising (under the brand ear books) with books about cities (New York, Barcelona, Genova or Rome), history personalities (Che Guevara), Show Business Legends (Marilyn Monroe) and a series of music earbooks dedicated to top names like Police, Marvin Gaye, Steve Wonder, Thin Lizzy, The Jam and Chris Rea.

Edel Records subsidiary EARbooks released the mammoth last solo album project by Chris Rea. This record was nearly the largest album ever to reach the UK Top 75, however by the Sunday the record had dropped from its Top 75 midweek charts position.
Edel Music's (Germany) barcode starts with 4029758.

Edel was the company chosen by artist Prince in 1994 when he parted way from Warner Brothers. The company released in Europe the single The Most Beautiful Girl In The World which was Prince's very first UK #1 hit. They also released several Prince-produced albums such as The Beautiful Experience, NPG's Exodus, and Mayte's Child Of The Sun.

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