PIAS Cooperative

[PIAS] Cooperative
Parent company	PIAS Group
Founded	2005 (2005)
Defunct	2018; 5 years ago (2018)
Status	Absorbed into PIAS Group
Distributor(s)	PIAS Group
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Location	London

[PIAS] Cooperative, formerly Cooperative Music, often referred to as Co-Op, was a group of indie labels based in the UK but that have offices around the world, owned by [PIAS].

Through their partner labels [PIAS] Cooperative worked with artists such as iamamiwhoami, Phoenix, Bloc Party, The Knife, Fleet Foxes, Prinzhorn Dance School, Citizens!, Interpol, The Black Keys and Mumford & Sons.

History

In April 2005, Cooperative Music was set up by the V2 Music Group as a transnational marketing and distribution operation which licenses independent labels, as opposed to individual artist companies which is the standard industry practice, for release in Europe, Australia and Japan. This in-house licensing division has an exclusive international marketing team with representation in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Australia and Japan.

In February 2013 [PIAS] acquired Co-Op from Universal Music Group.^[1]

In 2018, PIAS Cooperative was absorbed into PIAS Group, PIAS Cooperative brand is used in its sales on PIAS website.

Former Partner labels

• 37 Adventures
• Acid Jazz Records
• ATO Records
• Bella Union
• DFA Records
• Heavenly Recordings
• Mute Records
• Phantasy
• Point Of Departure
• Research
• Transgressive Records
• Wichita Recordings
• V2 Records

References

External links

• Cooperative Music publishing catalog at MusicBrainz
• PIAS Cooperative discography at Discogs

This page was last edited on 15 October 2023, at 15:18