Wind-Up Records



Wind-up Records is a record label based in New York City. It was formed in 1997 by Alan and Diana Meltzer, former owners of CD One Stop, following their 1996 purchase of Grass Records. The label's releases are distributed by Sony Music Entertainment worldwide, excluding Canada, where the company operates Wind-up Entertainment Canada, Inc. and receives distribution from Warner Music Canada. Wind-up is currently the largest independently-owned record label in the world. The parent company Wind-up Entertainment also runs numerous publishing companies as well as a full-scale retail, online and tour merchandising company. The company's slogan is "Developing Career Artists."

Some of the successful acts on the label include Creed, Evanescence, Seether, Finger Eleven and People in Planes. The label has also re-released albums from bands previously associated with Grass Records: The Wrens and Commander Venus.

In September 2009, the label reached an agreement with EMI Music. The partnership will see EMI Music take over the marketing and distribution of artists such as Creed, Evanescence, Seether and Finger Eleven throughout the world outside North America. One of the first new releases under this arrangement was Creed's most recent album.

Artist roster
Accurate with respect to Wind-up's website as of May 20, 2010.:
 * Bayside
 * Cartel
 * Civil Twilight
 * Company of Thieves
 * Creed
 * Endless Hallway
 * Evanescence
 * Finger Eleven
 * Hawthorne Heights
 * It's Alive
 * Jeremy Fisher
 * Emily Osment
 * People in Planes
 * Pilot Speed
 * The Queen Killing Kings
 * Push Play
 * Seether
 * Scott Stapp
 * Stars of Track and Field
 * Thriving Ivory
 * Tickle Me Pink

Previous artists

 * 12 Stones
 * Alter Bridge
 * American Pearl
 * Atomship
 * Big Dismal
 * Boy Hits Car
 * Boysetsfire
 * Breaking Point
 * Cauterize]]
 * The Crash Motive
 * The Drowners
 * Drowning Pool
 * Eric Durrance
 * Dust for Life
 * Early States
 * Edgewater
 * The Exit
 * The Februarys
 * Bob Guiney
 * Megan McCauley
 * Ben Moody
 * Must
 * Papercut Massacre
 * [[Stefy
 * Stereo Fuse
 * Strata
 * Stretch Princess
 * Submersed
 * Trickside
 * Seven Wiser
 * The Wrens