title: R&amp;J Records
Step One Records
Big Machine Records
Average Joes Entertainment
Dischord Records
Era Records
Jay Park
Recorded In Hollywood
Streamsound Records
Fearless (Taylor Swift album)
sentences: R&J Records is an American independent record label specializing in country music.
 It was founded in May 2011 by James Stroud and Rick Carter.
 Stroud is a record producer and former president of Giant Records and DreamWorks Records.
 In 2008, Stroud had launched Stroudavarious Records and signed many artists to that label.
 Most Stroudavarious artists' contracts were moved to the new label, whereas some other previous artists signed with Stroudavarious have moved to other record labels.
Step One Records was an independent American record label established in February 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee.
 The label was founded by singer-songwriter and producer Ray Pennington with Curtis Potter, the former of whom had produced for Waylon Jennings.
 At the time of the label's foundation, it was one of the few independent country music labels to have significant chart success, most notably in 1991, when the label released Clinton Gregory's "(If It Weren't for Country Music) I'd Go Crazy", the only independently released single on the "Billboard" country charts at the time of its release.
 The label lasted into the mid 1990s, having Top 40 success again in 1996 with Western Flyer's "What Will You Do With M-E?"
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 Other artists signed to the label included The Geezinslaws, Ray Price, Faron Young, and Pennington himself.
 The label closed in 1998 and the catalog is owned by Gusto Music.
Big Machine Records, LLC is an independent American record label specializing in country and pop artists.
 Big Machine is based on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee, and is distributed by Universal Music Group (UMG).
 The label was launched in September 2005 by former DreamWorks Records executive, Scott Borchetta, and initially became a joint venture between Borchetta and country singer Toby Keith.
 As of November 2014, the music company consists of 88 employees—in the areas of music publishing, management, and merchandising—and four office buildings.
 The business also oversees numerous imprints, including Valory Music, that are under Big Machine Label Group.
Average Joes Entertainment Group is an American record label specializing in country music, alternative country, and country rap.
 The label was founded in 2008 by country rap artist Colt Ford and producer Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins.
 Ford has released four albums for the label, three of which have reached the top 10 of the country albums charts including 2012's chart topping #1 "Declaration Of Independence".
Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk rock music of the D.C.-area music scene.
 The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release "Minor Disturbance" by The Teen Idles.
 Along with other independent American labels such as Twin/Tone, Touch and Go Records, and SST Records, Dischord helped to spearhead the nationwide network of underground bands that formed the 1980s indie-rock scene.
 These labels presided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominated the American underground scene to the more diverse styles of alternative rock that were emerging.
Era Records was an independent American record label located in Hollywood, California.
 It was founded by Herb Newman and Lou Bedell in 1955 as a pop, country and western and jazz label.
 Era had a #1 hit in 1956 with Gogi Grant's "The Wayward Wind", written by Newman.
 In 1959 Bedell sold his interest in the label to Newman.
 Artists who experienced hits on Era include Ketty Lester ("Love Letters"), Larry Verne ("Mr. Custer"), Donnie Brooks ("Mission Bell"), Dorsey Burnette ("Tall Oak Tree"), Art & Dotty Todd ("Chanson D' Amour") and The Castells ("So This Is Love").
 Era distributed other labels including Monogram, Gregmark and Eden.
 From 1969 to 1971, Era was associated with Happy Tiger, which reissued and distributed some of Era's oldies.
 In 1972, Newman added the RTV label, which released the MU album.
 In the mid-1970s Newman sold the Era label and catalog to K-tel.
 In 1993, K-tel began reissuing some of the early Era material using the original Era label and logo.
Jay Park (Korean name: Park Jae-beom, Hangul: 박재범, Hanja: 朴載範; born April 25, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, record producer, model, choreographer, entrepreneur and actor.
 He is a member of the Seattle-based b-boy crew, Art of Movement (AOM), and founder and Co-CEO of the independent hip hop record label AOMG & his New Global Label H1GHR MUSIC.
 He also signed with the record label Roc Nation, becoming the first Asian-American to do so.
 As Park grew up as a b-boy and dancer, he has become known for these skills, as well as his charismatic performances and stage presence.
 Park was described as a "born entertainer" by Korean pop singer Patti Kim, and "The New York Times" quoted the president of digital music distributor DFSB Kollective describing Park as "not just an artist, but also his own PR agent, fan club president, and TV network."
 Park also branched out into entrepreneurship where he became the founder and CEO of the AOMG, a Korean independent record label specializing in hip hop.
Recorded In Hollywood was an independent American record label specializing in rhythm and blues, active from the late 1940s to the end of the 1950s, which issued several sides by artists significant to the genre.
 John Dolphin operated the label out of his record shop, before selling it to Starday's Don Pierce.
 Pierce changed the name to Hollywood Records and began releasing re-issues.
Streamsound Records was an independent American record label specializing in country music artists.
 It was launched by Byron Gallimore (producer of Tim McGraw, Sugarland, Faith Hill) and Jim Wilkes in 2012.
Fearless is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.
 The album was released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records.
 As with her first album, "Taylor Swift", Swift wrote or co-wrote all thirteen tracks on "Fearless".
 Most of the songs were written as the singer promoted her first album as the opening act for numerous country artists.
 Due to the unavailability of collaborators on the road, eight songs were written by Swift.
 Other songs were co-written with Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich.
 Swift also made her debut as a record producer, co-producing all songs on the album with Nathan Chapman.

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 R&J Records is an American independent record label specializing in country music.
 It was founded in May 2011 by James Stroud and Rick Carter.
 Stroud is a record producer and former president of Giant Records and DreamWorks Records.
 In 2008, Stroud had launched Stroudavarious Records and signed many artists to that label.
 Most Stroudavarious artists' contracts were moved to the new label, whereas some other previous artists signed with Stroudavarious have moved to other record labels. 

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 Big Machine Records, LLC is an independent American record label specializing in country and pop artists.
 Big Machine is based on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee, and is distributed by Universal Music Group (UMG).
 The label was launched in September 2005 by former DreamWorks Records executive, Scott Borchetta, and initially became a joint venture between Borchetta and country singer Toby Keith.
 As of November 2014, the music company consists of 88 employees—in the areas of music publishing, management, and merchandising—and four office buildings.
 The business also oversees numerous imprints, including Valory Music, that are under Big Machine Label Group. 

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 Average Joes Entertainment Group is an American record label specializing in country music, alternative country, and country rap.
 The label was founded in 2008 by country rap artist Colt Ford and producer Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins.
 Ford has released four albums for the label, three of which have reached the top 10 of the country albums charts including 2012's chart topping #1 "Declaration Of Independence". 

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 Era Records was an independent American record label located in Hollywood, California.
 It was founded by Herb Newman and Lou Bedell in 1955 as a pop, country and western and jazz label.
 Era had a #1 hit in 1956 with Gogi Grant's "The Wayward Wind", written by Newman.
 In 1959 Bedell sold his interest in the label to Newman.
 Artists who experienced hits on Era include Ketty Lester ("Love Letters"), Larry Verne ("Mr. Custer"), Donnie Brooks ("Mission Bell"), Dorsey Burnette ("Tall Oak Tree"), Art & Dotty Todd ("Chanson D' Amour") and The Castells ("So This Is Love").
 Era distributed other labels including Monogram, Gregmark and Eden.
 From 1969 to 1971, Era was associated with Happy Tiger, which reissued and distributed some of Era's oldies.
 In 1972, Newman added the RTV label, which released the MU album.
 In the mid-1970s Newman sold the Era label and catalog to K-tel.
 In 1993, K-tel began reissuing some of the early Era material using the original Era label and logo. 

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 Jay Park (Korean name: Park Jae-beom, Hangul: 박재범, Hanja: 朴載範; born April 25, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, record producer, model, choreographer, entrepreneur and actor.
 He is a member of the Seattle-based b-boy crew, Art of Movement (AOM), and founder and Co-CEO of the independent hip hop record label AOMG & his New Global Label H1GHR MUSIC.
 He also signed with the record label Roc Nation, becoming the first Asian-American to do so.
 As Park grew up as a b-boy and dancer, he has become known for these skills, as well as his charismatic performances and stage presence.
 Park was described as a "born entertainer" by Korean pop singer Patti Kim, and "The New York Times" quoted the president of digital music distributor DFSB Kollective describing Park as "not just an artist, but also his own PR agent, fan club president, and TV network."
 Park also branched out into entrepreneurship where he became the founder and CEO of the AOMG, a Korean independent record label specializing in hip hop. 

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 Recorded In Hollywood was an independent American record label specializing in rhythm and blues, active from the late 1940s to the end of the 1950s, which issued several sides by artists significant to the genre.
 John Dolphin operated the label out of his record shop, before selling it to Starday's Don Pierce.
 Pierce changed the name to Hollywood Records and began releasing re-issues. 

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 Streamsound Records was an independent American record label specializing in country music artists.
 It was launched by Byron Gallimore (producer of Tim McGraw, Sugarland, Faith Hill) and Jim Wilkes in 2012. 

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 Fearless is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.
 The album was released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records.
 As with her first album, "Taylor Swift", Swift wrote or co-wrote all thirteen tracks on "Fearless".
 Most of the songs were written as the singer promoted her first album as the opening act for numerous country artists.
 Due to the unavailability of collaborators on the road, eight songs were written by Swift.
 Other songs were co-written with Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich.
 Swift also made her debut as a record producer, co-producing all songs on the album with Nathan Chapman. 

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Answer: Taylor Swift