Editing Monument Records (section)

{{Short description|American record label}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Monument Records
| image       = Monument_Records_logo_2017.jpg
| image_size  = 180px
| parent      = [[Sony Music Entertainment]]
| founded     = {{start date and age|1958}}
| founder     = [[Fred Foster]]<br />Buddy Deane<br/>Jack Kirby
| status      = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" -->
| distributor = 
| genre       = Various
| country     = U.S.
| location    = <!-- headquarters city and state -->
| url         = {{URL|monument-records.com}}
| fate        = <!-- explain the reason of the closing-->
}}
'''Monument Records''' is an American record label co-founded in 1958 by [[Fred Foster]]. Originally founded in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], D.C., the label moved to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] in 1960, and experienced success over the next two decades with a number of artists including [[Roy Orbison]], [[Dolly Parton]], [[Willie Nelson]], [[Ray Stevens]], [[Kris Kristofferson]], [[Charlie McCoy]], [[Boots Randolph]], [[Jeannie Seely]], and others.

After financial struggles and bankruptcy, [[Sony Music|CBS Records]] acquired the Monument catalog in the 1980s. CBS successor [[Sony Music]] reactivated the label in 1997 as a country label and relaunched it in 2017.<ref name="billboard.com">{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7669714/monument-records-sony-music-label|title=Sony Music's Monument Records Revived By Jason Owen, Shane McAnally|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 26, 2017}}</ref>