title: Millennium Records
text: # 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!
  