History
Fiction Records was founded in 1978 by Chris Parry. In the early 1990s the label was bought by Polydor where it lay effectively dormant for a decade apart from the occasional Cure release. In 1992 the imprint achieved its first #1 record in The Cure's album Wish, which reached the top of the charts in the United Kingdom.
In January 2004 Joe Munns, Paul Smernicki and Beastman decided to revive Fiction to "give Polydor a bit more of a guitar stronghold", as their roster then consisted mostly of pop acts. The first release on the "new" Fiction was the Snow Patrol single "Run", which entered the UK chart at #5. The subsequent Snow Patrol album Final Straw has since gone on to sell over 2 million copies around the world.
The current Fiction stable includes Crystal Castles, Ian Brown, Snow Patrol, The Maccabees, Kate Nash, Athlete, Elbow, White Lies, Yuksek, Detroit Social Club, and Filthy Dukes.
Fiction has also released records by Stephen Fretwell, Jacknife Lee, Delays, Alberta Cross, Guillemots and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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