Company type | Private ownership, Private limited company |
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Industry | Music industry & Fashion |
Genre | Hip hop, alternative hip hop, alternative rock, R&B, soul, neo soul, electronic, post-dubstep, dubstep, grime |
Founded | 9 February 2006 |
Founder | Archie Lamb & Jack Foster |
Defunct | 22 October 2013 |
Fate | Dissolved 2013 |
Headquarters | 64 New Cavendish Street London United Kingdom W1G 8TB |
Area served | United Kingdom |
Key people | Kwasi Danquah III (Chairman and A&R executive) Archie Lamb (President and CEO) Jack Foster (Vice President, COO and CFO) |
Products | Entertainment |
Divisions | Star in the Hood |
Subsidiaries | Takeover/Cloud 9 Takeover Roc Nation |
Takeover Entertainment was a British entertainment company. The organization operates an independent record label, talent agency, a music production company, as well as its own music publishing house.[1] The company was founded in 2006 and is run by Kwasi Danquah III (known by his pseudonym Tinchy Stryder), Archie Lamb and Jack Foster.[2] It specializes in producing R&B, hip hop and electronic music. It was dissolved in October 2013[3]
The first person to be signed to Takeover Entertainment was English rapper and entrepreneur Tinchy Stryder. Success followed by Stryder becoming the biggest selling UK male artist of 2009 with his second studio album, Catch 22, which spawned hits, including "Take Me Back", and #1's "Never Leave You", and the N-Dubz collaboration "Number 1".[4]
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