Millennium Records
# Millennium Records

Millennium Records is a defunct record label run by record producer Jimmy Ienner from 1976 to 1983. During its RCA-distributed years, a significant portion of its output was content licensed from Canadian record labels.

## Hits

The label's best-selling artist was electronic music pioneer Meco, whose disco cover of John Williams' "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" cues from Star Wars was a number 1 hit in 1977. In 1978, Meco followed up with two more movie-inspired hits for the label: a number 25 hit "Theme From Close Encounters" and a number 35 hit "Themes From The Wizard of Oz".

In 1981, Don McLean had three hits on the Millennium label: "Crying" which peaked at number 5; a number 23 song, "Since I Don't Have You" and a number 36 song, "Castles in the Air".

Between 1981 and 1982, the band Franke & the Knockouts had three top 100 hits on Millennium: "Sweetheart" at number 10, "You're My Girl" at number 27, and "Without You" at number 24.

Millennium is noteworthy for having passed on signing Madonna in 1981.

## Artists

* Brooklyn Dreams
* Chilliwack
* Daniel Conti
* Johnny Destry
* Bruce Foster
* Bruce Cockburn
* Franke & The Knockouts
* The Godz
* Tommy James
* Lori Lieberman
* Don McLean
* Meco
* Rose
* Rodway
* Joey Travolta
* Yipes!
