Everest Records

Everest Records is a Canadian-American record label that is the main flagship label of the Everest Music Group. It was founded in 1989 in, by Christopher Sharp, Jan Bjerke, and Martin Sasaki, and later moved its headquarters to  by 1993. During its first few years of success, the label was the haven of many pop, synth-pop, dance music, hip hop and new jack swing acts at a time when all the majors were investing all their financial efforts on grunge, alternative rock and gangsta rap acts. By the mid-1990s, Everest Records began seeing major chart success with hip hop, teen pop and alternative rock acts. In 1995 it established a country music division, Everest Nashville (headquartered in ), and in 1998 it established a Latin music division, Everest Latina (headquartered in, ).

Everest Records and the other labels of the Everest Music Group are among the largest and most influential independent record labels in history.