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(contracted; show full)d in 1986 by former manager and booking agent [[Martin Goldschmidt]] and business partner [[Pete Lawrence]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/label-profiles-four-independents-under-the-spotlight-8712226.html|title=Label profiles: Four independents under the spotlight|date=2006-05-23|publisher=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=2014-04-07}}</ref> Goldschmidt remains the current owner and managing director. The company is based in [[Acton, London]].


Established in 1986, Cooking Vinyl boasts emphasis on artist-driven deals with bespoke services-only contracts that claim no stake in artists' copyrights.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cookingvinyl.com/about/|title=About Cooking Vinyl - UK based Independent Record Label|publisher=}}</ref> The first such deal drawn up in 1993 with [[Billy Bragg]] who has since re-signed to the label a total of seven times.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pias.com/blog/pure-gold-martin-goldschmidt-cooking-vinyls-unplanned-success/|title=Pure Gold: Martin Goldschmidt on Cooking Vinyl’s unplanned success - [PIAS]|date=2015-10-28|newspaper=[PIAS]|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> Many other acts return year after year, release after release, including [[Pixies]]' Charles Thompson (AKA [[Black Francis|Frank Black]]) with 18 releases to date with the label, and starting in 1994 Cooking Vinyl released 23 albums by the former [[Doll by Doll|Doll By Doll]] man, the late [[Jackie Leven]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://cookingvinyl.com/about/|title=About Cooking Vinyl - UK based Independent Record Label|newspaper=Cooking Vinyl|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>

In 2015 and 2016 the label received acclaim, being described by ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' magazine as “a template for modern independent record companies”. After topping the charts in 2015 with [[The Prodigy]]’s “The Day is My Enemy”,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/15197/prodigy/|title=PRODIGY {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> this feat was repeated in 2016 with the global success of [[Passenger]]’s “[[Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea|Young as the Morning Old as the Sea]]”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/8112/passenger/|title=Passenger {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> Both records qualified for a silver disc in the UK. This same year, [[Richard Ashcroft]] reached the UK top 3 with “[[These People]]”,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/8938/richard%20ashcroft/|title=RICHARD ASHCROFT {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> his first album in six years. [[The Fratellis]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18100/fratellis/|title=FRATELLIS {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> [[The View (band)|The View]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/1833/view/|title=VIEW {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> [[Reverend and The Makers|Reverend & The Makers]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2268/reverend%20and%20the%20makers/|title=REVEREND & THE MAKERS {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> [[Turin Brakes]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/9363/turin%20brakes/|title=TURIN BRAKES {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> [[The Cult]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/21662/cult/|title=CULT {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> [[Billy Bragg]] & [[Joe Henry]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/50281/billy%20bragg%20and%20joe%20henry/|title=BILLY BRAGG & JOE HENRY {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> [[Feeder (band)|Feeder]],[http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/203/feeder/] [[Area 11 (band)|Area 11]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/26247/area%2011/|title=AREA 11 {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> [[The Rifles (band)|The Rifles]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/16862/rifles/|title=RIFLES {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> and [[Seth Lakeman]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/1843/seth%20lakeman/|title=SETH LAKEMAN {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> also reached the UK top 40, thus fulfilling the entry criteria for the [[Brit Awards|BRIT Awards]] 2017 “Album of the Year” category. In these years, Cooking Vinyl Australia notched up a number 1 album with [[Parkway Drive]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6722623/parkway-drive-first-hard-rock-albums-no-1|title=Parkway Drive Earns First Hard Rock Albums No. 1|newspaper=Billboard|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> and top 5 entries with [[City and Colour]] and [[Kate Miller-Heidke]]. In 2016, the label opened a North American subsidiary, Cooking Vinyl America, whose first release was [[The Dillinger Escape Plan]]'s ''[[Dissociation (album)|Dissociation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/400502/dillinger-escape-plan/chart|title=The Dillinger Escape Plan - Chart history {{!}} Billboard|website=www.billboard.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>⏎
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==History==

===Formation===
Cooking Vinyl was set up in 1986 by former manager and booking agent [[Martin Goldschmidt]] and distribution manager Pete Lawrence, who initially ran the business as a part-time venture out of a spare room in Goldschmidt's council house in Stockwell, South London.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=http://cookingvinyl.com/about/|title=Cooking Vinyl - About|date=2014-06-06|publisher=Cooking Vinyl|accessdate=2014-06-06}}</ref>

===1986–1993===
(contracted; show full)Pigeon Detectives, Reverend and The Makers, Ron Sexsmith, and The View.<ref>{{citation |title=Label Services Report|date=2013-04-18|publisher=[[Music Week]]|page=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockol.com/uk/news-499691/cooking-vinyl-cuts-deals-with-ub40s-ali-campbell-seth-lakeman|title=Cooking Vinyl's Martin Goldschmidt On Universal-EMI Deal, Marilyn Manson, the Rise of Indies|publisher=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=2013-05-16|accessdate=2014-05-16}}</ref>


===Digital era===
Cooking Vinyl has consistently been in the forefront of the digital revolution. It was the first European label to do a deal with the MP3 download site eMusic and the first to enter negotiations with the peer to peer file-sharing company Kazaa.<ref name="auto1"/> In 2005 Cooking Vinyl set up its own online distribution company, Uploader, which was sold in 2007 to the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA), one of the best online distributors in the world.,<ref name="auto1"/> who were in turn bought by ''[[The Orchard (company)|The Orchard]]''.⏎
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===Commercial success===
Cooking Vinyl has had international success from the start with Michelle Shocked The Texas Campfire Tapes selling 250,000 worldwide.<ref name="auto"/> Other notable releases include the Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions and Ryan Adams debut solo studio album Heartbreaker in 2000, which sold 100,000 in the UK alone.<ref name="auto1"/>

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