679 Artists
{{Short description|Record label owned by Warner Music Group}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2013}}
{{Infobox record label
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| parent = Warner Music Group
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| founder = Nick Worthington
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| distributor = Warner Music Group
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| country = England
| location = London, United Kingdom
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679 Artists (formally known as Sixsevenine and 679 Recordings) was a Warner Music Group-owned record label based in London, England.
It was started by Nick Worthington who after leaving XL Recordings in 2001, started the company with Warner Music Group, and holds the position of MD and A&R Director. It is named "679" as this was the address of the Pure Groove record shop on Holloway Road.
The label's first release was The Streets' debut, Original Pirate Material (which was named The Observer{{'}}s best album of the 2000s).
The label progressed with subsequent albums from artists including Death From Above 1979, The Futureheads, Kano, King Creosote and Mystery Jets, and also included the million-selling second Streets album, A Grand Don't Come for Free.
The label was acquired by Warner Music Group in 2008.[https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/warner-uk-adds-679-1314016/ Warner U.K. Adds 679]. Billboard, 21 January 2008.
In 2011, it released Plan B's The Defamation of Strickland Banks which has sold over one million copies.
The founder of 679 has recently formed a new record label called 37 Adventures.
Former artists
- Annie
- Cut Off Your Hands
- Dead Disco
- Death from Above 1979
- The Earlies
- Elro
- Fryars
- The Futureheads
- King Creosote
- Kano
- Little Boots
- Marina
- M. Craft
- MSTRKRFT
- Mystery Jets
- Oh My!
- Plan B
- The Polyphonic Spree
- The Rifles
- Run the Road
- The Secret Handshake
- Secret Machines
- Siren Sirens / Love Letters / Heroine Hearts
- Spark
- The Stills
- The Streets
- The Webb Brothers
- We Smoke Fags
- Wideboys
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100715082056/http://679artists.com/ Official website]
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Category:British record labels
Category:Electronic music record labels
Category:Indie rock record labels
Category:Record labels established in 2001
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