Concord Music Group, Inc.

Record Company.

The Concord Music Group (CMG) was formed in November 2004 with the merger of Concord Records and Fantasy Records. It is a privately held company based in Beverly Hills, California. Distribution is largely by the Universal Group since 2006. Any release with a long numerical cat # (often led by several zeroes and then either 25 or 86/88 numbers) or a Universal reference is 2006 or later.

Owner of the Rounder, Vanguard, post-Atlantic Stax, Prestige, Riverside, Vee-Jay, Specialty, Telarc, Volt, Fantasy, Takoma, Kicking Mule, Hightone and Bandit catalogs and/or labels, among others.

Corporate chronology:
CA company number: 1015871
Incorporated: 22 January 1981 as 'Fantasy/Prestige/Milestone/Stax, Inc.'
First name change: 8 July 1981 to
Second name change: 3 December 2004 - this page (24 November 2004 for Delaware legal entity)