Geffen Records

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Geffen Records
Parent company	Universal Music Group (UMG)
Founded	October 1980; 44 years ago (1980-10)
Founder	David Geffen
Distributor(s)	Interscope Geffen A&M (U.S.) Polydor (UK and France)
Genre	Various
Country of origin	United States
Location	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Official website	interscope.com

Geffen Records (formerly Geffen Records Inc. until 2004) is an American record label, founded in late 1980 by David Geffen. Originally a music subsidiary of the now-defunct Geffen Pictures, it is owned by the Interscope Geffen A&M (IGA) faction of Universal Music Group (UMG).

Geffen has been a part of IGA since 1999 and has been used by Universal Music as a syndicating division of Interscope Records, serving its purpose to operate as a premier label for many new releases since 2003 and its 2017 reboot. At the same time, it is projected to reissue many releases from recording labels (some of which have been directly absorbed into Geffen) such as Decca Records (exclusively the American pop/rock catalog), Kapp Records, DreamWorks Records, MCA Records, Uni Records, Chess Records, Almo Sounds (Interscope has managed reissues of the label in 2015), Dot Records, ABC Records (primarily its pop, rock, and R&B recordings) and DGC Records (the label had merged into Geffen in 2021 with reissues now being handled by the parent label).