Editing Innocent Records

{{Short description|UK record label}}
{{For|the independent Australian label|Innocent Records (Australia)}}
{{One source|date=May 2007}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2013}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Innocent Records
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| parent      = [[EMI]]
| founded     = 1997
| founder     = [[Hugh Goldsmith]]
| status      =
| defunct     = 2007
| distributor = 
| genre       = [[Pop music|Pop]]
| country     = United Kingdom
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'''Innocent Records''' was a [[Pop music|pop]] [[record label]] created to cater to for [[EMI]]'s<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emimusic.com/about/history/1930-1949/ |title=1930–1949 – EMI Music |access-date=11 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606062844/http://www.emimusic.com/about/history/1930-1949/ |archive-date=6 June 2011 }}</ref> [[Virgin Records]] more pop oriented acts. Following the success of the [[Spice Girls]], Virgin Records decided to delve into the pop market. In doing so they poached [[Hugh Goldsmith]] from [[RCA Records]] (famous for steering [[Take That]]'s initial flagging sales, to a multi-platinum act). They let him launch his own Virgin Records offshoot. His first signing was [[Billie Piper]], followed by [[Martine McCutcheon]], along with several dance acts. The label continued to thrive well into the mid-2000s with [[Atomic Kitten]] and [[Blue (English group)|Blue]] achieving Platinum sales.

In early 2005, Goldsmith returned to [[Sony BMG]] (parent company of [[RCA Records]]) to set up [[Brightside Records]]. Not long after Goldsmith's departure, Innocent Records was shifted from Virgin Records to the newly formed [[Angel Music Group]], EMI's newly created commercial division, which also handles [[EMI Classics]]. For a time in the mid-2000s Angel Music Group also licensed [[Hollywood Records]] for the UK.

Innocent Records' most notable success during this period was Blue's [[Simon Webbe]]'s double platinum solo album ''[[Sanctuary (Simon Webbe album)|Sanctuary]]''. The Innocent Records imprint seemed to have vanished by the late 2000s (decade) being replaced by the revived [[Charisma Records]] label, itself disappeared after limited success with pop acts such as [[Alphabeat]].

== Former artists==
* [[Atomic Kitten]] (1999–2004)
* [[Blue (English group)|Blue]] (2001–2005)
* [[Billie Piper]] (1998–2001)
* [[Geri Halliwell]] (2004–2005) (shifted from [[EMI]])
* [[Speedway (band)|Speedway]] (2002–2004)
* [[Martine McCutcheon]] (1999–2003)
* [[Duncan James]] ([[Solo (music)|Solo]]) (2004–2007)
* [[Simon Webbe]] ([[Solo (music)|Solo]]) (2005–2007)
* [[Javine Hylton]] (2003–2004)
* [[VS (band)|VS]] (2004–2005)

== See also ==
* [[List of record labels]]

==References==
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[[Category:British record labels]]
[[Category:EMI]]
[[Category:Virgin Records]]
[[Category:Pop record labels]]
[[Category:Record labels established in 1997]]
[[Category:Record labels disestablished in 2007]]
[[Category:1997 establishments in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:2007 disestablishments in the United Kingdom]]


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