History Creator / AristaRecords

* Music/{{Monica}}

* [[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Annie Lennox]]

* Series/ThePartridgeFamily (reissues)

* Series/SaturdayNightLive (a 1976 compilation of skits by the original cast)

In 2011, [[Creator/RCARecords RCA Music Group]], the Sony division that oversaw Arista, eliminated the label after a corporate restructuring and moved its roster to RCA, which was being run by none other than Clive Davis. While the name was still used by Arista Nashville and the [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] division, Arista France, that was the end of Arista as an American rock/pop label... until July 2018, when the Arista brand was revived under the leadership of former [[Creator/MercuryRecords Mercury]] and [[Creator/IslandRecords Island]] head David Massey. Clive Davis, still running RCA [[CoolOldGuy at 86]], gave Massey his blessing.

* Music/{{Caravan}}*

* Music/{{Caravan}}

* [[Music/LouisTomlinson]]

* [[Music/OneDirection Louis Tomlinson]]

* Music/TheMonkees[[note]]Inherited from Columbia Pictures' 1966-71 label Colgems, and distributed by Arista until 1994, when Rhino Entertainment Company bought the entire Monkees franchise[[/note]]

* Music/DavidBowie[[note]]Arista released ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'', ''Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia'' and ''Music/{{Outside}}'' in several countries[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:350:...and the second.]]

* Music/HallAndOates

Clive Davis, who had run Creator/ColumbiaRecords throughout TheSixties, had recently been ousted and was looking for a new job. Meanwhile, Creator/ColumbiaPictures[[note]]no relation to the label until Creator/{{Sony}} bought them both[[/note]] wanted to revitalize its ailing music division, Bell Records; while Bell's British branch was doing okay with GlamRock-based acts like the Bay City Rollers, in America their biggest assets were fading pop acts Series/ThePartridgeFamily (whose show had been canceled) and Tony Orlando and Dawn (who had [[ChannelHop switched labels]] to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Elektra]]). Davis was appointed head of Bell, changed its name to Arista[[note]]named after UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity's secondary school honor society, which Davis had belonged to[[/note]], and got to work. Davis and his staff dropped most of Bell's acts but helped turn three they did keep, Music/BarryManilow, Melissa Manchester, and the aforementioned Bay City Rollers, into hitmakers. Meanwhile, Arista established its credibility quickly; one of Davis' first signings was Music/PattiSmith, and well-known acts like Music/TheKinks, Music/TheAlanParsonsProject, Music/LouReed and Music/GilScottHeron soon joined the label.

* Music/LouisTomlinson