550 Music (originally known as Sony 550 Music) was a unit of Sony Music Entertainment, which operated through Sony Music's Epic Records division while in activity. Launched in 1992, the "550" name was inspired by the address of the Sony building, located at 550 Madison Avenue in New York. The label was folded in 2000 by Epic Records, it was part of the restructuring when Tommy Mottola was leaving Sony Music. Artists on label 3 Lb. Thrill Amel Larrieux Apollo 440 Ben Folds Five Bolt Upright Carl Hancock Rux Celine Dion Coco Lee Damascus Road Experience Deep Forest Des'ree Echolyn Eve's Plum Fear of Pop Flight 16 Flop For Squirrels Fuel George Clinton & the P.Funk All-Stars Ginuwine Haley Bennett Infectious Grooves Jon B. Mandy Moore Men of Vizion Mista Grimm moe. Motherland Nine Days No-Man Old Pike Patra Rah-Sun Social Distortion Taja Sevelle Tanto Metro & Devonte The Poor Ultimate Fakebook Vallejo Velvet Crush Verbow Vernon Reid Vonda Shepard XC-NN See also List of record labels References Record labels established in 1992 Record labels disestablished in 2000 Defunct record labels of the United States