Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Records.
==History==
Nonesuch was founded in early 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce "fine records at the same price as a trade paperback",Holzman, Jac; Daws, Gavan (1998). Follow the Music. FirstMedia Books. p. 97. which would be half the price of a normal LP. To achieve this, he licensed European recordings of classical music as it would be too expensive to record new material. Originally the label concentrated heavily on chamber and baroque music, often with unique repertory, and typically sold at less-than-premium prices. Upon its formation, Nonesuch operated as a subsidiary label of Elektra Records. In 1970, Holzman sold Elektra and Nonesuch to Kinney National Company, which became Warner Communications and later part of Time Warner's Warner Music Group.
In the late 1960s, the Explorer Series made the label a pioneer in the field of world music before the term had even been coined. The series, which Nonesuch released from 1967 to 1984, consisted of field recordings made primarily in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe."Nonesuch to Release First 4-LP Pkg". Billboard. Vol. 79, no. 32. Aug 12, 1967. p. 48. 
In 1977, a few of the recordings were chosen for the Voyager Golden Record, and sent into outer space aboard the Voyager spacecraft. In 2008, one of the first Explorer Series albums, Music from the Morning of the World (1967), comprising early field recordings that the British musicologist David Lewiston had made in Bali in 1966, was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.https://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/registry/nrpb-masterlist.html
David Bither, is currently the owner of Nonesuch Records and former XL Recordings was hired as senior vice president in September 2016.http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6770210/david-bither-co-president-nonesuch-recordshttp://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7510273/nonesuch-records-kris-chen-senior-vice-president-svp
==Channel==
Nonesuch Records created their channel on March 22nd, 2006. They didn't upload their first video until October, 19th, 2007. Their most popular video has over 5 million views, with the video being Laurie Anderson's song O Superman.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
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