Zondervan Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Recording business == Zondervan was in the Christian [[Gramophone record|record]] business for many years with the Singspiration and Zondervan Victory labels in the 1960s, Singcord in the 1970s, and the Milk & Honey Records label, starting in the late 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bookdownloading.com/article/detail/zondervan-victory-singspiration-singcord-milk-honey/ |title=Zondervan, Singspiration, Singcord, Milk & Honey |access-date=June 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915221241/http://www.bookdownloading.com/article/detail/zondervan-victory-singspiration-singcord-milk-honey/ |archive-date=September 15, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1980, Zondervan and Paragon Associates bought Christian record label [[Benson Records]] in a partnership to own and operate for $3 million.<ref name="CCM_3_4">{{cite journal |date=October 1980 |title=Zondervan-Paragon Pact Carved Out New Benson Co |journal=[[CCM Magazine]] |volume=3 |issue=4 |page=32 }}</ref> The resulting company was (measured by sales) one and a half times the size of its closest competitor, [[Word Records|Word]].<ref name="CCM_3_4"/> Zondervan bought out Paragon in 1983, and eventually sold Benson to [[Zomba Label Group]] in 1993, now a part of [[Sony BMG Music Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mymusicway.com/labels/benson.html |title=Benson Music |access-date=July 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726182226/http://www.mymusicway.com/labels/benson.html |archive-date=July 26, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page