Sparrow Records: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 21:22 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the Sparrow Records US CD of Switchfoot's Nothing Is Sound (SPD 11383, UPC 094631138300), a barcode named by family/nothing-is-sound, plus a brand stub for Sparrow Records (owned_by company/emi . This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Sparrow Records <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sparrow Records
summary: American Christian music record label founded in 1976, part of EMI from 1992 and now of Universal Music Group's Capitol Christian Music Group.
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target      | market | from | until | ended | status  | source        | note                                                                          |
| -------- | ----------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/emi |        | 1992 |       |       | sourced | ^wiki-sparrow | Purchased by Thorn EMI in 1992; after the 1996 demerger part of the EMI Group |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                           | title                      | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator       | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-sparrow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_Records | Wikipedia: Sparrow Records | 2026-09-26 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           | Lead, history | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Sparrow Records is a Christian music record label founded in 1976 by Billy Ray Hearn, then A&R director at Myrrh Records; Barry McGuire was its first signing.[^wiki-sparrow] Thorn EMI bought the label in 1992, and it is now part of the Capitol Christian Music Group, a division of Universal Music Group; its artists have included Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman and Switchfoot.[^wiki-sparrow]
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