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# Warner Music Buys Indie Roadrunner
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/warner_music_bu/
- Published: 2006-12-19T07:50:40.000Z
- Updated: 2006-12-19T07:50:40.000Z
- Description: Warner Music Group will acquire 73.5% of Roadrunner Music Group which includes Roadrunner Records, one of the leading hard rock and heavy metal labels for $73.5 million. In the US,. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/12/warner_music_bu.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, Major Labels, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

Warner Music  
Group will acquire 73.5% of Roadrunner Music Group which  
includes Roadrunner

[![Wmg_44](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/wmg_44.jpg "Wmg_44")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/wmg%5F44.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

Records, one of the leading hard rock and heavy metal  
labels for $73.5 million.

In the US, Roadrunner will become a freestanding label group  
within WMG’s Atlantic Records. Roadrunner’s international affiliates  
will become freestanding units within WMG’s Warner Music International.  
Roadrunner Managing Director, Cees Wessels, will continue to run the  
company he founded. There will be no staff changes as part of the  
acquisition.

[![Roadrunner](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/roadrunner.jpg "Roadrunner")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/roadrunner.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

  
The company has enjoyed strong momentum over the past several years. The label’s multi-Platinum, Grammy-nominated  
artist, Nickelback, has the No. 1 Hard Music album for 2005  
and year-to-date 2006 in the U.S. Roadrunner’s roster also includes multi-Platinum  
Slipknot, Stone Sour, Killswitch Engage,  
Theory of a Deadman, Megadeth, Black Label Society and Trivium.