About
Company that grew from Steve Gottlieb's Tee Vee Toons record label and its surprise success with the original [i]Television's Greatest Hits[/i] album. TVT would release seven more volumes in the popular TV theme song compilation series in addition to 30+ movie and TV soundtrack albums. TVT also expanded into signing artists as diverse as Shona Laing, Nine Inch Nails, Jimmy Page, Ying Yang Twins, Lil Jon, Aphex Twin, KMFDM and Snoop Dogg. TVT acquired Wax Trax! Records in 1992, putting it at the forefront of the industrial music scene. It also created music publishing and distribution units. After costly legal disputes involving Ja Rule (over contractual obligations) and Slip-N-Slide Records over the rights to early material by Pitbull, the label filed for bankruptcy in 2008. TVT's assets, excluding the music publishing unit (which Gottlieb still owns), were awarded to UK-based digital music distributor The Orchard by a New York bankruptcy judge in June 2008.
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Sub-labels
TVT Soundtrax
Soundtrack label of TVT Records.
Blunt Recordings
TeeVee Toons, Inc
Also appears as "Tee Vee Toons Inc." Originally a label created in 1985 by Harvard Law graduate and based out of his New York apartment to release the [i]Television's Greatest H...
TVT Records (UK)
TVT Europe GmbH
Wax Trax! Records, Inc.
The record company responsible for labels as [l=Wax Trax! Records] & [l=Play It Again Sam Records USA]. May also appear as Wax Trax! Records Inc. or Wax Trax Records Inc.
TVT Classics
The Sullivan Years
Crunk Hits
Compilation released by [l758] Consisting of 4 volumes. There are differences between the US and EU releases. The EU versions contain different tracklists with mostly mainstream / softer tracks.
Contact
TVT Records 23 East 4th Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY, 10003 USA Tel.: +1 (212) 979.6410 Fax: +1 (212) 979.6489 Email: soundtrax@tvtrecords.com