Jive Records
Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group. In the US, the label had offices in New York City and Chicago. Jive was best known for its successes with hip hop, R&B, and dance acts in the 1980s and 1990s, along with teen pop and boy bands during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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| Parent company | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Founded | 1981[1] |
| Founder | Clive Calder |
| Defunct | October 7, 2011 |
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| Distributor(s) | Legacy Recordings (reissues) |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | New York, Chicago |
| Official website | www |
Jive was acquired by Bertelsmann Music Group in 2002.[2] In 2008, BMG itself was bought out by Sony Music Entertainment.[3] Jive Records thereupon remained a unit wholly owned by Sony up until the label’s dissolution in 2011, when Jive was absorbed into RCA Records.