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and her production company, A Very Good Production, in association with longtime affiliate

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DeGeneres announced it on her

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, saying that the label would concentrate on lesser known artists and that she had been looking for videos of performances on

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. DeGeneres explained her choice of name, claiming that she often sees the number 11:11 when looking at her clocks, that she found Greyson Chance on the 11th, and that the singer's soccer jersey has the number 11. All of the artists on the label have been distributed via

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Artists

*The first act to be signed to the label was Greyson Chance, who gained fame after his cover of

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's "

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" performed at a school in

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went viral. *On September 16, 2010, DeGeneres announced her label's second signed artist, Tom Andrews, from the United Kingdom. * In the fall of 2010, the label signed

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. She released her first album under the label called ''Happy Christmas'' in November 2010. *In March 2011, DeGeneres announced that she had signed Savannah Robinson to her label and had her on the show to perform a duet with

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. *In October 2011, DeGeneres announced that she had signed

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and Emily Luther to her label after seeing their cover of

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's " Someone Like You". Puth & Luther performed the song on the show. On January 25, 2012, they came back to ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' and performed Lady Antebellum's " Need You Now" and an original written by Puth titled "Break Again" (co-written with Robert Gillies). Puth is no longer a part of the label. The eleveneleven section on her official website shortlisted the four most popular acts from the web and asked for a democratic voting from her community to help her make an informed choice on the next artist to be signed to the label.

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