Playground Music Scandinavia

Infobox record label
name = Playground Music Scandinavia


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founded = 1999
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genre = Various
country = Sweden
location = Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
url = [http://www.playgroundmusic.com playgroundmusic.com]

Playground Music Scandinavia AB (or just Playground Music, abbreviated to PGM) is a Scandinavian based record label founded in 1999.

The Company was founded in 1999 by a group of independent record companies: edel, Mute, Beggars, PIAS together with CEO Jonas Sjöström and COO Torgny Sjöö. The biggest international hit to date is The Rasmus with 1,5 million albums and 1 million singles sold world wide. Playground Music has offices in Stockholm, Malmö, Copenhagen, Oslo and Tampere. In 2006 the company acquired Diesel Music AB with such artist as Eagle Eye Cherry, Koop, Lisa Nilsson and Mauro Scocco. In 200X the company acquired Edel/Mega AS with the recordings of such artsts as Ace Of Base, Savage Rose and DAD. The core business of the company is to represent other record labels in the Scandinavian market. For example Beggars with White Stripes and The Prodigy, Domino with Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand, Imperial with José Gonzáles and Juju with Timbuktu. Today the company is owned by edel, Beggars, Jonas Sjöström, Torgny Sjöö and Fredrik Rundqvist.

elected artist

These are a few of the artists who are signed to Playground Music.

* The Rasmus
* Ace of Base
* Snook
* Private Line
* The Concretes
* Advance Patrol
* Slow Train Soul
* Finn Kalvik

These are a few of the artists who are distributed by Playground Music.

* Timbuktu (Scandinavia)
* Turbonegro (Sweden)
* Alice Cooper (Scandinavia)

ee also

* (Category)
* List of record labels

External links

* [http://www.playgroundmusic.com/ Official site]