Where Old School Meets New School.

26 Records is an indie record label founded by Roney Hooks in 2007.
 

The labels productions are distributed by the Orchard/Sony the industry’s leading independent distributor and label services company.

Since its inception in 2007, 26 Records has released five albums from 2010-2017 distributed solely via the Orchard/Sony.

The label released two full length albums one English/Spanish and the other a compilation for PBS in 2011.
 

Headquarters
Utah, NC, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Spain,
 

Records Labels
BlackMonkey Records, ERI Records, HB Records, Kountrysyde Records

Offices
Utah, Las Vegas Nevada, NC, Spain,

Executives

Roney Hooks is a multi-talented award winning songwriter, arranger, producer and visionary businessman who has scored hits with some of today’s chart topping artists and successfully managed several stellar artist. In 1988 Roney signed onto become a recording artist with CBS Associated Records with T.J. Martell at the helm. He later went on to write and arrange (3) songs for MCA Recording artist Bell, Biv, DeVoe’s (Poison LP) who were members of New Edition. This album achieved multi-platinum status and quickly became a hot commodity amongst his peers. In 1991, met legendary music veterans Benny Medina and Quincy Jones. He later went on to sign with Sony Music, and immediately made his mark by producing, writing, remixing and arranging songs for Kathy Sledge, Mariah Carey, Babyface, Shalimar and Alexander O’Neal. Eager to break into television and film, he was offered the opportunity to write for the song “Above the Rim” for the movie of the same name.

As head of a leading entertainment network, Mr. Young's daily grind consists of becoming the eyes and ears of the entire company. Meaning, if there is a product, deal, or auditioning offer, etc... bound for the company's distribution, sales, media, or marketing department, it must be pre-approved and authenticated by him before it can go any further.The most difficult thing about Mr. Young's job comes from having to distinguish what goes and what stays as far as quality entertainment is concerned. With hands-on knowledge from being a recording artist, an actor featured on Disney as well as television Shows like "Touched By An Angel", Dajon has many perspectives on how people's interests for music, media, and movies are ever-changing. Some of Dajon's notable clients include ETC, The Ohio Players, Dante Thomas, Fergie from "Black Eyed Peas", Keith Mitchell from "AfterSeven", Ty Dolla $ign and Justin Nozuka.

Justin has worked with fortune 500 companies, top 100 financial firms, growing SMB’s and his own brands. Earlier in his career he added several years with excellent volume, shrink and retention results for Tailored Brands located in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Utah. In 2009 Justin accomplished work alongside ESPN during the Macco Bowl and multiple projects therein. Justin has worked with NV Energy, Fire and Ice, Crown Royal, MGM, Napa Auto Parts, Tobin Auto, Nellis Air Force Base, Southpoint Casino, The Palms, World Star Hip Hop, Dream Vision Studios, FOX 13, MTV , MMA, Verizon Wireless, hundreds of SMBs and Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In more recent years he developed Digital 6 Software generating positive SEO results such as 1st place on google search in New York, Los Angeles & Salt Lake City for multiple new brands. Justin continues branding and strategy work for 26 Records. He has now added results-focused marketing programs for Artists that drive traffic and sales to the bottom line of the Artist Brand.