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Concord Music Group was founded in 2004 when Concord Records acquired Fantasy, Inc. and the two companies combined. It was based in Beverly Hills, California, and distributed its recordings worldwide through Universal Music Group.
In its founding year of 2004, CMG partnered with Starbucks to release Genius Loves Company, a Ray Charles album that won eight Grammy Awards including Album of the Year. Esperanza Spalding won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 2011, the first time that honor went to a Concord Records act. At the 2013 Grammy ceremony, CMG artists collectively took eight awards, the most of any label group that year.
Concord Music Group's holdings included Prestige, Milestone, Riverside, Specialty, Stax, Fantasy, Telarc, Rounder Records, Hear Music, and Loma Vista Recordings. By 2012, these were organized into four operating units: the Fantasy Label Group, Rounder Label Group, Concord-Telarc Label Group, and Prestige Group.
CMG announced the re-launch of the soul label Stax on the 18th of December, 2006. Rights to the Stax name had been held by Fantasy before CMG absorbed that company. Isaac Hayes and Angie Stone were among the first artists signed to the relaunched label.
Concord Music Group merged with Bicycle Music Company in April 2015 to form Concord Bicycle Music. The newly combined company immediately acquired Vanguard Records and Sugar Hill Records from the Welk Music Group.
Hear Music was a record label jointly founded by Concord Music Group and Starbucks in March 2007. Paul McCartney's album Memory Almost Full was its first major release, arriving in June 2007. The label went on to release albums by Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Alanis Morissette, Carly Simon, and John Mellencamp.