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eleveneleven
Company type Private
Industry Music
Founded May 2010 ; 14 years ago  ( 2010-05 )
Founder Mike Hamlin
Ellen DeGeneres
Defunct 2012 ; 12 years ago  ( 2012 )
Fate Defunct
Headquarters United States
Key people
Ellen DeGeneres
Products Music
Owners A Very Good Production
Warner Bros.
Parent Ellen Digital Ventures

eleveneleven was a record label founded in 2010 by Mike Hamlin, Ellen DeGeneres and her production company, A Very Good Production , in association with longtime affiliate Warner Bros. DeGeneres announced it on her talk show , saying that the label would concentrate on lesser known artists and that she had been looking for videos of performances on YouTube . DeGeneres explained her choice of name, claiming that she often sees the number 11:11 when looking at her clocks, that she found Greyson Chance on the 11th, and that the singer's soccer jersey has the number 11. [1] All of the artists on the label have been distributed via Interscope Geffen A&M .

Artists [ edit ]

  • The first act to be signed to the label was Greyson Chance , who gained fame after his cover of Lady Gaga 's " Paparazzi " performed at a school in Edmond, Oklahoma went viral . [2]
  • On September 16, 2010, DeGeneres announced her label's second signed artist, Tom Andrews, from the United Kingdom. [3]
  • In the fall of 2010, the label signed Jessica Simpson . She released her first album under the label called Happy Christmas in November 2010.
  • In March 2011, DeGeneres announced that she had signed Savannah Robinson to her label and had her on the show to perform a duet with Jennifer Hudson . [4]
  • In October 2011, DeGeneres announced that she had signed Charlie Puth and Emily Luther to her label after seeing their cover of Adele 's " Someone Like You ". Puth & Luther performed the song on the show. On January 25, 2012, they came back to The Ellen DeGeneres Show and performed Lady Antebellum 's " Need You Now " and an original written by Puth titled "Break Again" (co-written with Robert Gillies). [5] Puth is no longer a part of the label. [6]

The eleveneleven section on her official website shortlisted the four most popular acts from the web and asked for a democratic voting from her community to help her make an informed choice on the next artist to be signed to the label. [7]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Ellen Explains Her New eleveneleven Record Label" . EllenTV . Archived from the original on 2010-05-31 . Retrieved 2010-05-28 .
  2. ^ "Ellen Degeneres Starts Own Record Label" . Yahoo Music . 2010-05-26. Archived from the original on 2012-06-30 . Retrieved 2010-05-26 .
  3. ^ "TomAndrews" . EllenTV . Archived from the original on 2012-05-07 . Retrieved 2011-03-15 .
  4. ^ "Jennifer Hudson sings with Savannah Robinson" . Archived from the original on 2011-04-02 . Retrieved 2011-03-30 .
  5. ^ "Break Again (Legal Title)" . Broadcast Music, Inc. Archived from the original on 2016-02-10 . Retrieved 2012-05-26 .
  6. ^ Anderson, Trevor. "Charlie Puth Talks Meghan Trainor Duet 'Marvin Gaye' & His Plea to James Taylor" . Billboard.com . Billboard . Retrieved 18 October 2016 .
  7. ^ Ebenezer (September 20, 2010). "Ellen DeGeneres is on a roll, with her new enterprise, eleveneleven and its shining stars, Greyson Chance and Tom Andrews" . wowelle.com . Archived from the original on 2011-07-18 . Retrieved 2011-03-15 .

External links [ edit ]

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