Provident Label Group Explained

Provident Entertainment
Parent:	Sony Music Entertainment (SME)
Founded:	1997
Founder:	Zomba^[1]
Country:	United States

Provident Entertainment is a division of Sony Music headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee and focused primarily on Christian music. The group handles its own physical distribution through its Provident-Integrity service.

Provident Label Group

Current labels^[2]

• Essential Records
• Flicker Records
• iShine Records
• Reunion Records
• Beach Street Records
• Praise Hymn Soundtracks

Former labels

• Brentwood Records
• Benson Records
• Fervent Records
• Diadem Music Group
• Provident Special Markets

Provident-Integrity distribution

In addition to its own labels, the distribution arm of Provident provides Christian-market distribution to these labels:

• 7Spin Music
• Arista Records
• BMG Classics (now Sony Masterworks)
• Boneyard Records (official label of T-Bone (rapper))
• Comin Atcha Distribution
• Creative Trust Workshop
• Cross Movement Records
• Galilee of the Nations
• GospoCentric Records/B-Rite Music
• Gray Matters
• INO Records
• Integrity Gospel
• Integrity Media
• New Haven Records
• RCA Records/RCA Inspiration
• Save the City Records
• Track Star Records
• Verity Records
• Wind-up Records

Provident Films

Provident Films is a division of Provident Entertainment. They have promoted notable films like Facing the Giants^[3] and Ring the Bell.^[4]

See also

• Sony Music Entertainment
• List of record labels
• List of Christian record labels

Notes and References

1. Price, Deborah Evans. "Zomba Forms Christian Music Umbrella: Provident Music Group to Unite Interests in Nashville" Billboard 109:26 (June 28, 1997)
2. Web site: Provident Press . October 12, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101018155336/http://www.providentpress.com/labelinfo.php . October 18, 2010 .
3. Web site: About. providentfilms.org. November 17, 2015.
4. Web site: Provident Films. providentfilms.org. November 17, 2015.