Ignition Records

{{Short description|British record label}}

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Ignition Records is a British, London based independent record company, owned by Marcus Russell{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/europ/contactsandpeople/profiles/russellm.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192559/http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/europ/contactsandpeople/profiles/russellm.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-10-29 |title=Marcus Russell's profile |access-date=2020-05-01}} and Alec McKinlay{{Cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/37492|title=Oasis gear up for release with new record deal | News | NME.COM|website=NME|date=20 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620125301/http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/37492|access-date=31 August 2020|archive-date=2008-06-20}} of Ignition Management. The company has been releasing music on a regular basis since the late 1990s, although its inaugural release came in September 1984 with Latin Quarter's hit single, "Radio Africa".{{Cite web|title=Latin Quarter {{!}} Radio Africa|url=https://www.latinquartermusic.com/song/radio-africa/|access-date=2020-06-03|website=Latinquartermusic.com|language=en-US}} The label is distributed by The Orchard.{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/oasis-label-signs-distribution-deal-with-sony-s-the-orchard/081418|title = Oasis' label signs distribution deal with Sony's the Orchard}}

Throughout the last two decades it has signed and released music by both emerging and established artists e.g. Courteeners.

The company also provides comprehensive label services to various established artists to release on their own label imprints e.g. Stereophonics.

Ignition Records is also the primary label services and marketing operation for Big Brother Recordings (Oasis) and Sour Mash Records (Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds), which are also based at Ignition Records headquarters in Marylebone, London, England.