History Creator / ColumbiaRecords

* Music/WeatherReport

* Creator/GeneRoddenberry[[note]]In 1976, Columbia released ''Inside Star Trek'', a spoken word album about ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in which Roddenberry interviews Creator/WilliamShatner, Creator/DeForestKelley, Mark Lenard, and Creator/IsaacAsimov[[/note]]

Columbia's been owned by various companies, most notably Creator/{{CBS}} (1938-88) and Creator/SonyMusicEntertainment (1988-present); despite the name, it had no connection with Creator/ColumbiaPictures until the Sony deal brought both companies under common ownership. [[note]]It's actually named for UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, where the company started.[[/note]]

* Music/XscapeGroup

* Music/NineInchNails+

* Music/{{Haim}}+

* Music/{{Adele}}+ (plus Latin America)

* Music/{{Hozier}}+

Columbia Records is not only one of the leading names in the music industry, it's also the UrExample of a record label--it's existed since ''[[LongRunners 1887]]''.[[note]]If you want to get technical, it began life as a record label in 1889, one year after the founding of Edison Records; however, the establishment that ''became'' Columbia started in 1887, and while Edison Records went bankrupt within 40 years, Columbia is still trucking on today.[[/note]] It was the first company to switch from wax cylinders to shellac discs. Later, its technicians created long-playing records, also known as [=LPs=]; that is, the album as a 10" or 12" disc rather than a literal album, with a bunch of 78s all in one package. After a format war with its main rival Creator/RCARecords in the late 1940s and its 7-inch 45 rpm format, the LP remained the dominant format for music albums until the 1980s, when it was supplanted by the cassette and UsefulNotes/CompactDisc. In turn, Columbia would open the first CD pressing plant in the world, CSR Compact Disc, to manufacture discs for the format's launch in 1982 as part of a partnership in Japan with co-inventor Creator/{{Sony}} that stretched back to 1968; all 50 titles in the launch lineup were by artists signed to Columbia and the Creator/EpicRecords sublabel. The CD would also become the dominant format for physical music releases until the advent of (legal) digital music distribution in the 2000s.

* Music/{{Solange}}

** Music/{{Solange}}