Aquarius Records

Aquarius Records was established in Zagreb in 1995 as a Croatian record label. Its initial and continuing identity is tied to the release and promotion of music by artists working in Croatia and the wider regional music environment. The supplied reference material does not identify the founders or provide a detailed chronology of the label’s earliest releases, but it establishes the company’s role as a domestic music enterprise rather than an unrelated international brand using the same name. Over time, Aquarius developed a business scope that went beyond recorded-music releases. Through Aquarius Music Publishing, the company became involved in the administration, representation, and licensing of musical works. This publishing activity includes a domestic repertoire of Croatian and regional authors and performers, as well as a licensed international repertoire made available through a relationship with Universal Music Publishing Group. The international catalogue referenced for the Croatian and Albanian markets includes works connected with major artists, bands, composers, and producers from popular music and screen music. The domestic publishing catalogue described in the reference material contains a wide range of established and emerging names, spanning pop, rock, hip-hop, jazz, alternative, traditional, and crossover music. Among the cited catalogue participants are Vjekoslava Huljić, Goran Bregović, Tonči Huljić, Nina Badrić, Massimo Savić, Tony Cetinski, Damir Urban, Tamara Obrovac, Cubismo, General Woo, Songkillers, Nola, Silente, Sara Renar, Miach, Boris Štok, Barbara Munjas, and many others. The breadth of this list reflects Aquarius’s function as a catalogue and rights-management business as well as a conventional label. The Universal Music Publishing relationship expanded Aquarius’s role in copyright exploitation and music placement. The referenced description presents the partnership as being based on mutual trust, results in copyright work, and successful pitching of music for clients. In practical terms, this enables the company to support the use of compositions in television, advertising, production, radio, and other commissioned or licensed settings in Croatia and Albania. Aquarius’s service offering also includes choosing or licensing music backgrounds for television programs, marketing agencies, production houses, radio stations, and individual projects. This places the company at the intersection of label services, publishing administration, synchronization-related licensing, and music supervision. The available material characterizes its domestic catalogue as one of Croatia’s largest, while also noting that Croatia Records is larger by that description; no numerical market-share evidence is supplied. The available references do not document particular albums, release dates, ownership changes, executive appointments, acquisitions, controversies, or financial results. They do, however, establish a durable Croatian music-business identity founded in 1995 and organized around both local repertoire and international publishing representation. The official website and a company YouTube channel are cited as external points of presence. Because the supplied material does not expressly verify the company’s present legal status or current management, those fields remain unconfirmed.

• 1995

  Aquarius Records is established

  [1]Aquarius Records (Croatia)en.wikipedia.org

  Aquarius Records is founded in Zagreb as a Croatian record label.

• Expansion into music publishing and licensing

  [1]Aquarius Records (Croatia)en.wikipedia.org

  Aquarius develops Aquarius Music Publishing, representing domestic authors and licensing international publishing catalogues for Croatia and Albania.

• Universal Music Publishing Group relationship

  [1]Aquarius Records (Croatia)en.wikipedia.org

  The company becomes associated with Universal Music Publishing Group as a licensee for major international songwriters and catalogues in its covered markets.

A broad-based Croatian music company combining local record-label activities with domestic and international music publishing, copyright administration, and licensing services.

• Recorded music · 1995

  Aquarius Records music releases

  The label’s core offering is recorded music associated with Croatian and regional artists. The cited catalogue spans numerous performers and styles, including pop, rock, alternative, hip-hop, jazz, and crossover music. The supplied sources do not provide a complete discography or identify specific flagship albums.

• Music publishing

  Aquarius Music Publishing

  Aquarius Music Publishing represents and administers works by domestic and regional authors and performers. Its activities include copyright representation, catalogue administration, pitching music for clients, and supporting uses in media, advertising, radio, and other creative projects.

• Catalogue licensing

  Universal Music Publishing Group licensed catalogue

  Aquarius acts as a licensee for selected Universal Music Publishing Group repertoire in Croatia and Albania. The referenced international catalogue includes works associated with major bands, solo artists, composers, and producers, making it available for local copyright, synchronization, and related licensing activity.

1. 1Aquarius Records (Croatia)en.wikipedia.org
2. 2Aquarius Records official websiteaquarius-records.com