what record label is rihanna signed to 2012?
Def Jam Recordings
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 Levine founded his own record label , 222 Records , in February 2012 . He stated that he was inspired to start the label to sign on Rozzi Crane , an USC music student he discovered through a mutual friend . She became the first singer signed on to the label , followed by Glee actor Matthew Morrison , Mexican artist Diego Boneta and The Voice season 2 contestant and part of Team Adam , the singer Tony Lucca . It was reported that he was negotiating further with potential distributors , as well as organizing staff , to operate as a full @-@ fledged record company with departments such as marketing , radio and publicity . 

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 Due to the success of the mixtape , Drake was the subject of a bidding war from various labels , often reported as " one of the biggest bidding wars ever " . Despite this , it was confirmed that on June 29 , 2009 , Drake had secured a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment . This was confirmed following the planned lawsuit from Drake and Young Money against an unauthorized album entitled The Girls Love Drake , which was released on iTunes under dubious means . 

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 Rihanna began " working on the new sound " for her seventh studio album in March 2012 , even though she had not yet begun recording . On September 12 , 2012 , Def Jam France announced via Twitter that Rihanna would release a new single the upcoming week while her seventh studio album is scheduled to be released in November 2012 . However , the tweet was shortly deleted and replaced with another clarifying that " more information will be made available tomorrow , Thursday , September 13 " . Via her official Twitter account , Rihanna posted series of " teasing " tweets announcing her seventh studio album . 

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 To prevent Channel Orange from leaking onto the Internet , Ocean planned to release it digitally one week earlier than its publicly announced date . He was inspired by Jay @-@ Z and Kanye West , who prevented their 2011 album Watch the Throne from leaking by announcing several misleading release dates . On June 8 , Ocean announced a July 17 release date and released a trailer for the album directed by Nabil Elderkin . On July 9 , he made his television debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and performed " Bad Religion " with backing from the show 's house band The Roots and a strings section . The show announced the album 's actual release date and vendor , Universal Music Group , who made it available on July 10 as a digital download on iTunes . Ocean said at the time , " I haven 't even held one in my hands ... The [ CDs ] are done , but when we sent them in , they were locked down at the manufacturer . They haven 't left . They never went on trucks [ to stores ] because that 's where things leak . " 

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 Deciding to postpone the album release in a season in which artists Kanye West ( 808s & Heartbreak ) , Britney Spears ( Circus ) and Guns N ' Roses ( Chinese Democracy ) had already set release dates , the only one available was six weeks later than expected . It was soon announced that a new release date for Folie was December 16 , 2008 . Although December 16 was not an ideal date according to demographic marketing analysis , Stump said " we put our eight feet down [ and ] told our label it must come out this year . " 
