Talk:Melodiya

Inaccuracies
"After having disappeared from the market since 2004, Melodiya started rereleasing their recordings in 2006." Actually, after the contract with MBG expired in 2003 the company re-opened under a new management and started building its own world-wide distribution network. Coincidentally, in 2003 Russian government passed a new copyright legislation (including the so called "retro-protection clause"). Melodiya faced (and lost) numerous copyright lawsuits.

"There is also a modern radio station in Russia known as Kanal Melodiya ..." This mentioning might not be relevant to the topic. There is no sign of affiliation (or any relevant relationship) between the radio station and the Melodiya record label.

I agree, I have removed the Trivia section. Galltywenallt (talk) 12:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Need for full article
The topic deserves a full-length article with more historical and technical details, including the pre-Melodiya era. The Soviet recording industry was, after all, the largest in the world. In the meantime I've added a reference to another site that explains the numbering system and gives a few more facts.Galltywenallt (talk) 20:24, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:41, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

78 rpm
Were the 78s really made of vinyl, or were they shellac, as in the west? Rothorpe (talk) 18:36, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

DGG, Philips
There were recordings by such performers as Emil Gilels (including a project of Beethoven piano sonatas) appearing both on Melodiya and Deutsche Grammophon and Mstislav Rostropovich (Beethoven cello sonatas, with Sviatoslav Richter) appearing on both Melodiya and Philips Records.

How do you pronounce it?
I've been looking all over the web (including Melodiya's own English-language home page) and I can't find any description of how to pronounce the name: is it me-LO-di-ya or me-lo-DI-ya or something else? Bhami (talk) 05:58, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

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Conflicting Dates
At the beginning of the History section, it states that the label was started in 1964. In the fourth paragraph of the same section, it states that the company has applied a single numbering system since 1933. That's 31 years before it started, if the first paragraph is accurate. This needs clarification. David Fell (talk) 13:41, 4 June 2018 (UTC)