Fox Music was the music division label of

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. It encompassed music publishing and licensing businesses, dealing primarily with television and film soundtracks. It was located in Century City,

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. During CEO Robert Kraft's tenure at Fox, dozens of Fox scores and soundtracks have become platinum or gold records. Highlights include the soundtracks from

and Fox Searchlight Pictures films such as '' Titanic'', '' Waiting to Exhale'', '' 28 Weeks Later'', '' Moulin Rouge!'', '' Garden State'', '' Romeo + Juliet'', '' The Full Monty'', '' Hope Floats'', '' Dr. Dolittle'', '' Bulworth'', '' Anastasia'', '' Walk the Line'', the 1st ''

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'' film, '' Once'', and '' Juno''. Fox Music has also supervised the music for

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hits, starting in 1994. Such television soundtracks from Fox Music have included the worldwide platinum albums from '' Ally McBeal'' and '' The X-Files'', plus hit compilations from ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', '' Dark Angel'', '' Roswell'' and '' 24''. Since Kraft became chief executive in 1994, Fox Music has been responsible for the worldwide sales of over 60 million albums, producing 3 Platinum, 6 Multi-Platinum and 6 Gold records. Fox Music has garnered 10 Academy Award nominations, winning 4

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, 14 Golden Globe nominations (including 4 Golden Globe Awards), 58

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nominations with 11 wins, and 46 Grammy nominations including 12 Grammy Awards. Fox Music used to utilize unaffiliated record companies for distribution. For example, '' Glee Cast'' albums were released by

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. Such recordings were released under the 20th Century Fox TV Records imprint which was introduced in 2009 as a joint venture of 20th Century Fox and

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. Following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019, Fox Music became part of the Disney Music Group and was distributed by

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, which was under DMG's Hollywood Records label. In 2020, due to Disney dropping the "Fox" brand, Fox Music was folded into Disney Music Group. Now, Fox Music is only used as a legal name for 20th Century Studios' soundtrack labels before Disney's acquisition.

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