Atlantic Records Vinyl, CDs & Cassettes

Atlantic Records was founded in New York City in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson, two men who loved Black music at a time when most major labels were either ignoring it or watering it down for white audiences. That founding conviction shaped everything that followed, and the records they made in those first years, raw, honest, and rooted in the blues and gospel traditions, stand up as well today as anything that came after.

The early catalog is a document of American soul at its source. Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, The Drifters, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding. Aretha Franklin came to Atlantic after a frustrating run at Columbia, and what she made here became the defining statement of her career and, for many, the defining statement of soul music, full stop.

When Atlantic was acquired by Warner Bros. in 1967, the label expanded without losing its identity. Led Zeppelin built their entire catalog here. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The Rolling Stones through their early Seventies peak. Later came ABBA, Chic, Genesis, AC/DC, and decades of artists who found the label's combination of heritage and ambition worth signing to.

The records in this collection span that full arc, more than seventy-five years of music made by people who understood that a great recording is worth getting right. Atlantic has always known the difference.