Interscope Records

American record label based in California
Organization record_label Q231694
Interscope Records
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Summary

Interscope Records is a record label[1]. It ranks in the top 0.22% of record label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,230 views/month, #5 of 2,290).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Founder: Jimmy Iovine[4], Ted Field[5]
  • Genre: hip-hop[6], pop music[7], heavy metal music[8], brostep[9], rock music[10]
  • Headquarters location: Santa Monica[11]
  • Child organization or unit: Streamline Records[12], Dreamville Records[13]
  • Discography: Interscope Records catalog[14]
  • Part of: Universal Music Group[15]
  • Country of origin: United States[16]
  • Inception: 1989[17]
  • Parent organization or unit: Universal Music Group[18], Interscope Films[19]
  • Official website: https://interscope.com[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Interscope Records[21]
  • Short name: Interscope[22]
  • Owner of: Dreamville Records[23]
  • Social media followers: 760,025[24], 780,000[25], 770,000[26], 750,224[27], 768,931[28], 839,000[29], 899,000[30], 951,000[31]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Original Production[32]

  • Country: US[33]

  • Began / founded: 1990[34]

  • Genre(s): hip hop, pop, pop rap, rock[35]

  • Community tags: hip hop, pop, pop rap, rock[36]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 2182a316-c4bd-4605-936a-5e2fac52bdd2[37]

Why It Matters

Interscope Records has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Part of → Universal Music Group
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    Country → United States
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