"Which American record label, launched in 1901 by Emile Berliner and Eldridge R JohnsonWas favoured by the band The Sweet, including their hits ""Blockbuster"", ""Ballroom Blitz"", ""Wig Wam Bam"" and ""Hell Raiser"" ?"
Phonograph record Gramophone trademark, Berliner started marketing records of 7 inches diameter with somewhat more substantial entertainment value, along with somewhat more substantial gramophones to play them. Berliner's records had poor sound quality compared to wax cylinders, but his manufacturing associate Eldridge R. Johnson eventually improved it. Abandoning Berliner's "Gramophone" trademark for legal reasons, in 1901 Johnson's and Berliner's separate companies reorganized to form the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, whose products would come to dominate the market for many years. Emile Berliner moved his company to Montreal in 1900. The factory, which became the Canadian branch of RCA
Nicky Chinn and their compositions accounted for all the singles the band released in their early years. Chinn's and Chapman's songwriting style was so successful with British and worldwide audiences that Sweet had an uninterrupted string of million-selling hits in the next few years. These included "Co-Co", "Little Willy", "Wig-Wam Bam", "Blockbuster!" "The Ballroom Blitz", "Hell Raiser" and "Teenage Rampage". " Ballroom Blitz" entered the UK Singles Chart at number two – an unusual feat in those days. "Little Willy" and "Ballroom Blitz" both went on to be top five hits in America. Chinn and Chapman stopped working with Sweet in 1975