PolyGram Records: version 1

Saved 2026-09-25 14:15 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: New page for Deutsche Grammophon CD 419 867-2 (UPC 028941986726), Karajan 1975 Mozart Requiem, from the wanted queue (named by family/mozart-requiem-karajan-1975). Identity from Deutsche Grammophon ca. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# PolyGram Records <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: PolyGram Records
summary: American record company of the PolyGram group, formed in 1972 from the US Polydor and Mercury/Philips companies and merged into Universal Music Group in 1999.
legal_name: PolyGram Records, Inc.
country: US
founded: 1972
dissolved: 1999
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target           | market | from | until | ended | status  | source       | note                                                                                                                                            |
| -------- | ---------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/polygram |        | 1972 | 1999  | true  | sourced | ^discogs-pri | Discogs describes the company as the American division of PolyGram, ended when Seagram bought PolyGram and merged it into Universal Music Group |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                                | country | source       | note                                       |
| ---- | ------ | -------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------ |
|      | office | 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 | US      | ^discogs-pri | Former contact address as Discogs gives it |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                       | type   | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| PolyGram Records, Inc.     | legal  |        |      |       |
| Polygram Records Inc. N.Y. | search |        |      |       |
| P.R.I.                     | search |        |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref         | url                                       | title                                                                      | accessed   | publisher | kind      | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-us  | https://api.discogs.com/releases/11467790 | Requiem (CD, Reissue, Remastered, Deutsche Grammophon 419 867-2, US, 1988) | 2026-09-25 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 11467790  |         |         |             |          |
| discogs-pri | https://api.discogs.com/labels/129352     | PolyGram Records, Inc. (label profile)                                     | 2026-09-25 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 129352    |         |         |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
PolyGram Records, Inc. was the American record company of the PolyGram group, created in 1972 by merging the US Polydor and Mercury/Philips companies, with offices at 810 Seventh Avenue in New York.[^discogs-pri] It marketed and manufactured US pressings of European PolyGram labels, among them the Deutsche Grammophon CD of Karajan's Mozart Requiem, 419 867-2.[^discogs-us] The company ended in 1999, after Seagram bought PolyGram and merged it into Universal Music Group.[^discogs-pri]
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