Label Watch: EGO Music

Over the last 20 years, EGO Music, Italy’s dance music’s market leader, has grown into one of the world’s most respected and successful record labels. EGO Music was established in 2004 by Ilario Drago (an experienced A&R professional at V2 Music Italy and Virgin Italy). Today, the label is a division of the Vae Victus Srl group headquartered in Verbania, Italy.

Under the EGO umbrella are sub-labels E2 and Hysterical, both of which serve up Dance, Pop, and Club music, Una Sasa— the Publishing arm of the label, as well as a self serving Management and Booking agency. Over the years, EGO artists and releases have been on charts including: F.I.MI., iTunes Singles, Beatport Top 100, Billboard Hot Dance Charts among others and first achieved Multi-Platinum sales certification from Nielsen with the 2011 single release”Mr. Saxobeat” by Alexandra Stan.

Currently, the label is the home of some the best artists on the international scene: Alexandra Stan, Serebro, Wankelmut, Emma Louise, Ben Pearce, Duke Dumont, Chris Malinchak, Laidback Luke, Nadia Ali, Dino Lenny, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, DKS, Flanders, House Republic aka Richard Grey, Mephisto, Starchaser and Stereo Palma. EGO has a large global footprint reaching listeners and fans in Australia, Poland, Israel, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, Scandinavia, Hungary, South Africa, Greece, Czech Republic, South Korea and India working with and through major Dance labels: Ultra Music, 3 Beat, Hed Kandi, Futurepl@y, Robbins, Happy Music, Jeff Records, Scorpio Music, Universal Music, Blanco Y Negro, Roster Music, Kontor Records, Ministry Of Sound, N.E.W.S., Spinnin’ Records, and Sony Music.

—Joseph Wensell

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