Ministry Of Sound

British dance music label.
Label Code: LC 2756 / LC 02756 and LC 11683
The label is part of a multimedia entertainment business based in London which includes a nightclub, shared workspace and private members' club, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio.
In August 2016, Ministry Of Sound's A&R and compilations business was acquired by the UK branch of Sony Music Entertainment. Rights to most recordings under the Ministry Of Sound name are now held and distributed by Sony Music, with the remaining Ministry Of Sound businesses retained within the original group.
Managing Director of the label from July 2023: Negla Abdela.

The business was founded in 1991 by British entrepreneur James "Jamie" Palumbo (now Baron Palumbo of Southwark), his school friend Humphrey Waterhouse and DJ Justin Berkmann.
Key personnel in the 1990s:
Lynn Cosgrave: ran Saturday nights at the club from mid-1992, started the label in 1993, appointed a director in 1996, resigned in September 1997.
Jim Masters: worked in press and promotion from 1991, started the Open sub-label in 1994, appointed a director in 1994, resigned in July 1996.
Mark Rodol: joined the company in 1992, appointed a director in 1993, promoted to CEO in March 2003, resigned in July 2004.
Palumbo temporarily stepped down from running the company in March 2003 when Rodol, then creative and marketing director, was promoted to CEO.
After Rodol resigned, Palumbo resumed his role as CEO before he handed over the day-to-day running of the business to Lohan Presencer in 2008.
Presencer became Chairman in 2018.

The record label was initially split into two divisions: Compilations and A&R.
The compilations division was established in 1993 with the Sessions (5) series.
The A&R division was established in the early 1990s and two imprints Sound of Ministry and Open were launched in 1994.
Further in-house labels followed including Frisky? Records (1996), (1997), (1997), (1998), (1999), (1999), (1999), (2000) and (2001).