| General info : | | Metronome (also Metronome Records) was a multinational record label founded in 1949 in Sweden by the brothers Lars and Anders Burman together with their friend Börje Ekberg to release jazz.
In 1950, Mats Bjerke, together with Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, opened an office in Denmark, Metronome Records A/S.
In 1954 Bjerke and Fabricious-Bjerre expanded to West Germany, founding Metronome Records GmbH.
In 1979 Metronome Records AB was sold to WEA.
The Danish company was abandoned in the 1980's.
German Metronome also distributed many other labels in the 1970s, including the Ohr group of labels: Ohr, Die Kosmischen Kuriere and Kosmische Musik, and also took over distribution of the MPS label in late 1976 after BASF folded. In 1983 Metronome Musik GmbH had become part of the PolyGram group of companies which in turn became the German division of Universal, with release duties handed over to Motor Musik GmbH.
The German company, then named Metronome Musik GmbH, became part of Polygram in the mid-1970s.
The current owner of the label in Germany is Universal, and in Sweden Warner Music Sweden AB. | |
| Websites | | () | |
| Contact info | | | |
| Source : | | https://www.78rpm.club/record-labels/metronome-records/ (www.78rpm.club/record-labels/metronome-records/) | |
| Source : | | https://www.discogs.com/label/5870-Metronome (www.discogs.com/label/5870-Metronome) | |
| Copied Wikipedia parts under license : | | | |