Who owns Tommy Boy Music?
Tommy Boy Music is owned by Reservoir (the United States, NASDAQ: RSVR), which has owned the brand since 2021.[1]
Evidence: Reservoir Media, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-28, SEC EDGAR, 28 May 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Reservoir Media, Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Music › Record labels
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: RSVR
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Tommy Boy Music
Tommy Boy is the United States hip-hop and dance record label Reservoir Media acquired in 2021, which gave it ownership of recordings by artists whose careers launched through the label, among them Queen Latifah, Afrika Bambaataa, Digital Underground, Coolio, De La Soul, House of Pain and Naughty By Nature. Its filing lists Tommy Boy Music, LLC, a Delaware company, as a wholly owned subsidiary, and says the label's catalogue is also sold directly to digital music services.
What Reservoir's annual report says about Tommy Boy Music
Sentences about Tommy Boy Music from Reservoir's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Our recorded music businesses is operated by our label teams based in London and New York City, which release music from our labels Chrysalis Records, Tommy Boy Music, New State and Reservoir Recordings.
How often Reservoir names Tommy Boy Music in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Tommy Boy Music
Where Tommy Boy Music sits in Reservoir
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Reservoir
Reservoir controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
Other brands in record labels, and who owns them
The 18 brands in record labels on Brandtree belong to 6 owners. The largest is Universal Music, with 5; Reservoir has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Capitol Records | Universal Music | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Atlantic Records | Warner Music | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Columbia Records | Sony | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| BMG | Bertelsmann | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| VAP | Nippon TV Holdings | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Def Jam Recordings | Universal Music | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Interscope Records | Universal Music | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Motown | Universal Music | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
About the owner: Reservoir
Reservoir is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 2007. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: RSVR.
Reservoir Media is a New York music company that runs a music publishing business, a recorded music business and a management business. In the year to 31 March 2026 publishing brought in about $117 million of revenue and recorded music about $52 million. Its recorded music side releases from label teams in London and New York under Chrysalis Records, Tommy Boy Music, New State and Reservoir Recordings, which also markets and distributes older catalogue labels it holds such as Philly Groove, Amherst, AVCO, Jamdown, Off Road and Easy Street. Its 10-K records board-level takeover proposals received in 2026.
🇺🇸 Tommy Boy Music and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Tommy Boy Music is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Tommy Boy Music?
The parent company of Tommy Boy Music is Reservoir, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Tommy Boy Music American?
Yes. Tommy Boy Music originated in the United States and its owner, Reservoir, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Reservoir owned Tommy Boy Music?
Reservoir has owned Tommy Boy Music since 2021.
Is Tommy Boy Music still owned by Reservoir?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Tommy Boy Music is still owned by Reservoir. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Reservoir Media, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-28 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 28 May 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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