Columbia House

Direct-mailing distributor of major label releases for many music labels. Originally began as Columbia Record Club, which is still reflected by the legacy "CRC" code that is used by Columbia House on the releases they manufacture & distribute. Usually keeps the original label's cat# and adds the "C" prefix to it (on CD releases). Catalog #'s of both the original label and Columbia House usually appear on the CD's. To add Columbia House pressings to the database, please use TWO label and cat# fields; the first pair should be the original label and catalog number (assuming it's actually on the release), while the second pair should be Columbia House and its corresponding number. If only one number is present, enter it for both labels.

Note that Canadian releases with barcodes starting in "7 7749" are most likely Columbia House releases, and that there will most likely be a retail version of the same release with a different barcode.

Note: CDs with DIDY codes (not any other DID_ codes, though) were manufactured by the US division of DADC for Columbia House. Such codes should be mentioned in the Other Identifiers field only; they're not Columbia House catalog numbers. Click here for the forum thread about this topic.