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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| image_name = Monstercat logo with text.png
| name = Monstercat 
| founded = July 2011 
| launch date    = {{Start date and years ago|mf=yes|2011|7|4}}
| founder = Mike Darlington<br>Ari Paunonen 
| genre   = Electronic Dance Music
| location = Vancouver, Canada 
| url = {{URL|http://www.monstercat.com/}}
}}

'''Monstercat''' is a Canadian [[Electronic dance music|EDM]] [[record label]].<ref name="djmag canada">{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/djmagcanada/docs/dj_20mag_20canada_20issue_20feb_fin_c35b700c37e354?e=0/6931372|title=Mike Darlington: Channeling his inner Monstercat|author=Line Abrahamian|work=DJ Magazine Canada|date=February 2014|accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref> Mike Darlington, [[chief executive officer|CEO]],<ref name="the frontliner">{{cite web|url=http://thefrontliner.com/interviews/labels/interview-monstercat-ceo-mike-darlington-37214|title=Monstercat CEO – Mike Darlington|work=The FrontLiner|date=8 November 2013|accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onlythebeat.com/interviews/2013/04/11/behind-the-beat-hellberg-interview/|title=Behind the Beat: Hellberg Interview|work=Only the Beat|date=11 April 2013|accessdate=26 May 2014}}</ref> and Ari Paunonen, [[Chief operating officer | |COO]], founded Monstercat in July 2011.<ref name="djmag canada"/> Monstercat is comprised of a team of 10: Mike Darlington (Co-Founder, CEO), Ari Paunonen (Co-Founder, COO), Jon Winter (Head of Music, also known as the artist [[Going Quantum]]), Rob Allen (Merchandise Manager), Gavin Johnson (Head of Licensing), Ryan Petrie (Design Manager), Dan Scarcelli (Podcast & Music Manager), William Casarin (Lead Developer), Jack Zhang (Developer) and Matt Books (Developer).<ref>{{cite web|t(contracted; show full)of the label) came along, they set up #OperationDethrone, a challenge to see if they could climb over the artists that had "held the iTunes EDM Albums for as long as [they could] remember," those artists being [[Skrillex]], [[David Guetta|Guetta]], [[Knife Party]], [[Deadmau5]], and [[Tiësto]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Darlington|first=Mike|title=#OperationDethrone Home Page|url=http://www.reddit.com/r/Monstercat/comments/x2mst/operationdethrone_home_base/|work=http://www.reddit.com/|accessdate=
2014, May 28, 2014}}</ref>

The album became so popular that it was marked as urgent to be moved to the iTunes dance charts. Once moved, it had surpassed albums from [[Adele]], [[Justin Bieber]], [[One Direction]], [[Linkin Park]], [[Maroon 5]], [[John Mayer]], [[Katy Perry]], and other well-renown artists at the time.

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