Sonet

A Scandinavian label, founded in the mid-1950's. In addition to Scandinavia, the label had a local branch in the UK. The label was acquired by PolyGram in the early 1990's, and when Seagram bought PolyGram and merged it with MCA family of labels to form Universal Music Group, Sonet became the property of Universal.

Currently Sonet continues in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Companies related to the brand:
Sonet Grammofon AB (Sweden)
Sonet Music AB (Sweden, publishing)
Sonet Grammofon AS (Norway)
Sonet / Dansk Grammofon A/S (Denmark)
Oy Sonet Suomi Ab (Finland)
Oy Sonet-Polar Suomi Ab (Finland)
Sonet Production Ltd. (℗ ©) (UK)
Sonet Records & Publishing Ltd. (UK) > please don't use Sonet Records And Publishing Ltd.

The French releases were distributed and manufactured by Disques Vogue.
The German licensee was Intercord Tonträger GmbH, these releases are branded as Sonet releases. There are also license releases from the TELDEC companies and Metronome Records GmbH but they seem to be released rather on own imprints than on Sonet.

Labelcode: LC 0346 / LC 00346

This label contains releases on multinational markets. Do NOT create imprints for different countries.
Cover that information on new releases with the country field and with proper notes about the
release (i.e. releasing company, label code, ℗ & © note, BIEM).
Please denote the label design, cause there are some times releases with different labels / reissues.

Also note that the promotional copies and white labels often don't contain a label/logo at all, it's acceptable to submit these under the company printed on the release.

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