Company: Polydor Records 61h3o

Polydor Records is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone Company having severed their ties during World War I. Deutsche Grammophon claimed the rights to the His Master's Voice trademark for , where HMV recordings were released under the Electrola trademark.

In turn, DGG records exported out of were released on the Polydor label.

Polydor became a popular music label in 1946 while Deutsche Grammophon became a classical music label. The German rights to the His Master's Voice trademark was sold by Deutsche Grammophon to the Electrola Records unit of EMI in 1949. Polydor remained Deutsche Grammophon's export label, including classical music, in and the Spanish-speaking world for the remainder of the long-playing era, as a result of language and cultural concerns.