Editing DGC Records (section)

{{short description|American record label}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = DGC Records
| image       = DGC_Records_logo,_1990.png
| image_size  = 180
| parent      = [[Universal Music Group]]
| founded     = {{start date and age|1990}} <br />
{{start date and age|2007}} (relaunch)
| founder     = [[David Geffen]]
| status      = Inactive
| distributor = [[Interscope Geffen A&M Records]]<br />(United States)<br />[[Polydor Records]]<br />(United Kingdom)
| genre       = Various; general focus on [[Rock music|rock]]
| country     = United States
| location    = [[Santa Monica, California]]
| url         = {{URL|www.dgcrecords.com}} {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
| defunct     = {{end date|1999}} (original)<br />
{{end date|2021}} (relaunch)
}}

'''DGC Records''' (an initialism for the '''David Geffen Company''') was an American [[record label]] that operated as a division of [[Interscope Geffen A&M Records]], which is owned by [[Universal Music Group]].

In 1999, after the [[PolyGram]] merger into UMG which created the Interscope Geffen A&M unit,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Philips |first=Chuck |date=1998-12-10 |title=Merger Puts Seagram at Top of Music Charts |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-10-fi-52395-story.html |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Strauss |first=Neil |date=1998-12-21 |title=A Major Merger Shakes Up the World of Rock |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/21/arts/a-major-merger-shakes-up-the-world-of-rock.html |access-date=2024-01-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> DGC was absorbed into [[Geffen Records]], but was later revived in 2007 before being merged into Geffen again in September 2021 following eight years of inactivity.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2023-10-10 |title=Interscope Records (biography section) |url=https://www.avid.wiki/Interscope_Records |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=Audiovisual Identity Database |language=en}}</ref>

The most famous group they signed was [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=Nirvana|title=Gold & Platinum|website=RIAA}}</ref>