ROYALTY RECORDS INC.
BIO/DESCRIPTION
Royalty Records,established in 1974, is a nationally recognized record label and distributor for both Canadian and international recording artists and labels. Since its creation, the Edmonton based label has focused mainly on country music, and now represents recordings by such current Canadian artists as Hey Romeo,Tenille, The Orchard, George Fox, Chris Cummings, Chris Buck Band, Blackie Jackett Jr.
Royalty Records also represents the recordings of Canadian legends such as Bev Munro, Jimmy Arthur Ordge, Joyce Smith, R. Harlan Smith and Chris Nielsen.
The Royalty Records catalog also includes a variety of other genres of music. old-time, dance and polka music is represented by five albums from the internationally acclaimed The Emeralds (of Bird Dance fame), polka icons Frankie Yankovic / Walter Ostanek, Brian Sklar’s Western Senators, and Gaby Haas’ catalogue, as well as jazz, big band and solo piano by Canadian great Tommy Banks (former Senator Tom Banks) and Showdown’s ever-popular Rodeo Song.
As a full-service label, Royalty combines its distribution expertise with marketing, promotion, licensing, manufacturing, publishing, and music rights administration services, provided by a qualified group of music-minded people.
Thus encompassing 8 time nominee for CCMA Record Company Person of the Year and 7 time CCMA nominee for Record Label of the year and 9 time CCMA nominee for Publishing Company of the Year. And the winner of 2013 WCMA Independent Record Label of the Year.
industry role: Record Company
genre: Country