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{{infobox record label
| name = Warner Bros. Records
| image = WB-logo.png
| parent = Warner Music Group
| founded = {{start date and age|1958|3|19}}
| founder = James Conkling<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1998/music/news/james-b-conkling-dead-at-83-1117469816/|title=James B. Conkling, dead at 83|first=Danielle|last=Pillet|date=16 April 1998|publisher=}}</ref>
| status = 
| distributor = {{ubl|Self-distributed|{{small|(United States)}}|WEA International|{{small|(International)}}}}
| genre = Various
| key people = Rob Cavallo (CEO)
| country = United States
| location = 3300 Warner Blvd., Burbank, California, 91505, United States
| url = {{url|http://warnerbrosrecords.com}}
}}
'''Warner Bros. Records Inc.''' is an American major record label established in 1958 as the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group (WMG), and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19, 1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros.. For most of its early existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world.

In 2003, these music assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner and purchased by a private equity group. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011. WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the world's last publicly traded major music company.<ref name="Warner Music Group - Overview">{{cite web|url=http://www.wmg.com/ |title=Warner Music Group - Overview |publisher=Wmg.com |date=2011-02-14 |accessdate=2011-02-20}}</ref> Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company.

Artists currently signed to Warner Bros. Records include Cher, Kylie Minogue, Kimbra, Goo Goo Dolls, Sheryl Crow, Ciara, Gorillaz, Green Day, Adam Lambert, Bette Midler, Blur, Duran Duran, Fleet Foxes, Jason Derulo, Lily Allen, Linkin Park, Dua Lipa, Muse, Nile Rodgers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, My Chemical Romance and Regina Spektor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Warner Bros. Records - Artists|url=http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/artists|website=warnerbrosrecords.com|accessdate=January 27, 2017}}</ref>

==Involvement with American Music Club & Mark Eitzel==
[[Mark Eitzel]] signed with Warner Bros. following [[American Music Club]]'s break-up and released 2 albums on the label, 1996's ''[[60 Watt Silver Lining]]'' and 1997's ''[[West]]''. During this time Warner Bros. also agreed to remaster and reissue the first 3 [[American Music Club]] albums with bonus tracks. They ended up only reissuing ''[[The Restless Stranger]]'' and ''[[Engine]]'' before abandoning the project coinciding with Eitzel being dropped from the label.

==References==
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Warner Bros. - Revision history

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