• Registered: 2012-05-08

Topic: Having a hard time figuring out the correct label for a release

The band in question is Pineforest Crunch, a Swedish pop band.  I'm trying to add more info to what's already in the database since I own all of their albums, but I'm totally lost on this whole label thing.  I looked through the wiki and it helped a little, but I'm still not sure about this.

The band's (very outdated, but still accurate) website is here:

http://www.exergy-music.se/pfc/frameset/frameset.htm

So, their first album is "Make Believe" and that's the one I was just trying to edit.  It lists Polar Music as the label there.  Now, according to Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Music, Polar Music was sold to PolyGram several years before this album came out.  The sleeve on the CD itself lists (c) 1996 Polar/Polydor.  It also has LC 0309 which doesn't seem to fit the standard (I thought they were 5 numbers?)

Basically I have no clue if I want Polar Music, Polydor or PolyGram.  Can someone educate me on how this all works? :)

  • From: Trois-Rivières, Canada
  • Registered: 2010-09-18

Re: Having a hard time figuring out the correct label for a release

Polar is the label.
Polydor is the distributor.
Polygram is the parent label.

my guess anyway

Lotheric's Website

  • Registered: 2009-11-14

Re: Having a hard time figuring out the correct label for a release

Catalog numbers vary from label to label.  I've seen everything from 3 & 4 digit numbers to the entire barcode used as catalog numbers.

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  • From: Tartu, EE
  • Registered: 2010-11-24

Re: Having a hard time figuring out the correct label for a release

It's relatively common for label codes to skip the leading zero. That label code seems to be for Polydor, if Discogs is correct http://www.discogs.com/label/Polydor

  • Registered: 2012-05-08

Re: Having a hard time figuring out the correct label for a release

reosarevok wrote:

It's relatively common for label codes to skip the leading zero. That label code seems to be for Polydor, if Discogs is correct http://www.discogs.com/label/Polydor

Thanks, I should've realized that.  So it sounds like Polydor would be the answer here?

  • From: Tartu, EE
  • Registered: 2010-11-24

Re: Having a hard time figuring out the correct label for a release

I'd say use both Polar and Polydor (which is what discogs also did fwiw)

  • From: Trois-Rivières, Canada
  • Registered: 2010-09-18

Re: Having a hard time figuring out the correct label for a release

I'd do as reosarevok said myself. Polygram shouldn't be entered there though.

Lotheric's Website

  • From: Norfolk, England
  • Registered: 2006-10-03

Re: Having a hard time figuring out the correct label for a release

Polar would be the label.

Think of a label as a brand name, companies can buy and sell brand names, but the brand name remains the same. So it doesn't matter who owns it, Polar is still Polar.

LC 0309 is a label code, which is misleading as it really should be called a record company code, as most record companies use the same LC for all their labels.