WEB Entertainment

{{Short description|Detroit-based record label}}

{{infobox record label

| image = WEB Entertainment Logo.jpg

| founder = Bass Brothers

| founded = {{start date and age|1992}}

| defunct = {{end date and age|2013}}

| status = Defunct

| genre = {{hlist|Hip hop|power pop}}

| country = United States

| location = Detroit, Michigan

| name = WEB Entertainment

}}

WEB Entertainment was a Detroit-based record label run by the Bass Brothers. It is best known for producing both of Eminem's independent albums, Infinite and the Slim Shady EP, before he signed to Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.{{Cite web|url=http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/people-got-the-power/Content?oid=2193595|title=People got the power|last=staff|first=Metro Times music|website=Detroit Metro Times|access-date=2017-02-10|archive-date=2017-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211081700/http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/people-got-the-power/Content?oid=2193595|url-status=live}}

WEB Entertainment has been credited on each one of Eminem's major-label albums up to The Marshall Mathers LP 2, and the Bass Brothers have continued to produce and co-produce most of his tracks up to The Eminem Show.{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/label/22082-Web-Entertainment|title=Web Entertainment|website=Discogs|access-date=2017-02-10|archive-date=2016-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427073138/https://www.discogs.com/label/22082-Web-Entertainment|url-status=live}}

Detroit-based horrorcore artist King Gordy released his debut album titled The Entity, via WEB Entertainment in 2003. In that same year, power-pop band The Romantics released their 61/49.

In 2010, WEB Entertainment released an EP by Detroit deaf rapper Sean Forbes called "I'm Deaf" in 2010 with a music video also called "I'm Deaf" which has received national praise from Mitch Albom in Parade Magazine.

Artists

= Former =

class="wikitable"
Act

!Years on
the label

!Releases
under the label

Eminem

|1992—2013

| style="text-align:center;"|10

King Gordy

|2001—2003

| style="text-align:center;"|1

The Romantics

| style="text-align:center;"|2003—2004

| style="text-align:center;"|1

Sean Forbes

| style="text-align:center;"|2010—2012

| style="text-align:center;"|1

Discography

class="wikitable sortable"

!Artist

!Album

!class="unsortable"|Details

rowspan="5"|Eminem

|Infinite

|

  • Released: November 12, 1996
  • Chart positions: —
Slim Shady EP

|

  • Released: December 10, 1997
  • Chart positions: —
The Slim Shady LP
(released with Aftermath)

|

  • Released: February 23, 1999
  • Chart positions: #2 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: 5× Platinum
The Marshall Mathers LP
(released with Aftermath)

|

  • Released: May 23, 2000
  • Chart positions: #1 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: Diamond
The Eminem Show
(released with Shady and Aftermath)

|

  • Released: May 26, 2002
  • Chart positions: #1 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: Diamond
King Gordy

|The Entity

|

  • Released: June 24, 2003
  • Chart positions: —
The Romantics

|61/49

|

  • Released: September 9, 2003
  • Chart positions: —
rowspan="4"|Eminem

|Encore
(released with Shady and Aftermath)

|

  • Released: November 12, 2004
  • Chart positions: #1 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: 5× Platinum
Curtain Call: The Hits
(released with Shady and Aftermath)

|

  • Released: December 6, 2005
  • Chart positions: #1 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: Diamond
Relapse
(released with Shady and Aftermath)

|

  • Released: May 15, 2009
  • Chart positions: #1 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: 3× Platinum
Recovery
(released with Shady and Aftermath)

|

  • Released: June 18, 2010
  • Chart positions: #1 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: 8× Platinum
Sean Forbes

|Perfect Imperfection

|

  • Released: September 4, 2012
  • Chart positions: —
Eminem

|The Marshall Mathers LP 2
(released with Shady and Aftermath)

|

  • Released: November 5, 2013
  • Chart positions: #1 U.S.
  • RIAA certification: 4× Platinum

See also

References

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