RED Distribution: version 1

Saved 2026-09-13 16:23 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Mötley Crüe – Saints of Los Angeles CD** (UPC 846070024023, ESM/MR 240) from the wanted list (the old page was titled "saints of los angeles"). **Identity check.** The lookup's MusicBrainz re. This is the current version.

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# RED Distribution <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: RED Distribution
disambiguation: Sony-owned US independent music distributor, merged into The Orchard in 2017
legal_name: RED Distribution, LLC
country: US
founded: 1979
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                           | market | from | until | ended | status  | source        | note                                                                                                |
| -------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-music-entertainment |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^wiki-orchard | Described as a Sony-owned sales and marketing division before its June 2017 merger into The Orchard |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                  | type  | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| RED Distribution, LLC                 | legal | en     |      |       |
| Relativity Entertainment Distribution | name  | en     |      |       |
| RED Music                             | name  | en     |      |       |
| Important Record Distributors         | name  | en     |      |       |
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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/1382614       | Discogs release 1382614: Mötley Crüe – Saints Of Los Angeles (CD, Album, US, 2008) | 2026-09-13 | Discogs   | catalogue   |           | 1382614   | Identifiers, labels, companies, credits, notes | CC0          |                        |          |
| wiki-orchard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RED_Distribution | Wikipedia: The Orchard (redirect from RED Distribution)                            | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           | RED Music section                              | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |          |
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## About <!--about-->
RED Distribution, LLC (Relativity Entertainment Distribution, later styled RED Music) was a Sony-owned sales and marketing division that distributed releases for more than sixty independent record labels.[^wiki-orchard] It was founded in 1979 as Important Record Distributors, a hard rock distributor that handled Metallica's first two LPs in the US, took the RED name in the 1990s, and was merged into The Orchard by Sony Music in June 2017.[^wiki-orchard] Discogs credits it as manufacturer and distributor of the US CD of Mötley Crüe's Saints of Los Angeles.[^discogs-us]
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