Millennium Records

Millennium Records is a defunct record label run by record producer Jimmy Ienner from 1976 to 1983. During its RCA-distributed years, a significant portion of its output was content licensed from Canadian record labels.^[1][2][3][4]

Hits[]

The label's best-selling artist was electronic music pioneer Meco, whose disco cover of John Williams' "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" cues from Star Wars was a number 1 hit in 1977.^{[citation needed]} In 1978, Meco followed up with two more movie-inspired hits for the label: a number 25 hit "Theme From Close Encounters" and a number 35 hit "Themes From The Wizard of Oz".^{[citation needed]}

In 1981, Don McLean had three hits on the Millennium label: "Crying" which peaked at number 5; a number 23 song, "Since I Don't Have You" and a number 36 song, "Castles in the Air".^[5]

Between 1981 and 1982, the band Franke & the Knockouts had three top 100 hits on Millennium: "Sweetheart" at number 10, "You're My Girl" at number 27, and "Without You" at number 24.^{[citation needed]}

Millennium is noteworthy for having passed on signing Madonna in 1981.^[6]

Artists[]

• Brooklyn Dreams
• Chilliwack
• Bruce Cockburn
• Franke & The Knockouts
• The Godz
• Tommy James
• Lori Lieberman
• Don McLean
• Meco
• Rodway
• Joey Travolta
• Yipes!

References[]

External links[]

• Millennium Records at Discogs

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