Editing Decca Records (section)

===1980 onwards===
[[File:Decca Records logo (classical music).svg|thumb|upright=.6|1980s logo|alt=square logo in two colours (blue above red) with the word Decca centered in the blue field]]
After being absorbed by PolyGram, British Decca continued as a separate label. It concentrated chiefly on the classical and [[Crossover music|crossover]] repertoires. During the 1980s there was some activity in popular music, with hits from [[Bananarama]], [[Bronski Beat]], [[the Communards]] and [[Fine Young Cannibals]],<ref name=mcg/> but as a classical label British Decca was a stronger presence, making numerous records with Solti in Chicago, the [[Montreal Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Charles Dutoit]], the [[Cleveland Orchestra]] with [[Riccardo Chailly]], Dohnányi, and a long-time British Decca artist [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], and soloists including [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], [[Renée Fleming]], [[Pascal Rogé]], [[Joshua Bell]], [[Cecilia Bartoli]] and [[Jean-Yves Thibaudet]].<ref>Stuart, ''passim''</ref> Among Decca's later classical signings are the cellist [[Sheku Kanneh-Mason]] and the pianist [[Benjamin Grosvenor]].<ref name=mcg/>

British Decca's prominence in the crossover repertoire dates from 1990 when Pavarotti's recording of the aria "Nessun dorma" from ''[[Turandot]]'' was used by the BBC to introduce its coverage of the [[FIFA World Cup]]. When Decca's recording of the tournament's opening concert performance by Pavarotti, [[Plácido Domingo]] and [[José Carreras]] was released, it became the biggest-selling classical album of all time. The three tenors' record paved the way for Decca's crossover artists such as [[Russell Watson]], [[Andrea Bocelli]], [[Katherine Jenkins]] and [[Alfie Boe]].<ref name=mcg/>

In 1994, [[MCA Nashville]] revived the Decca label as a country music label.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XwgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=decca+%2B+country+%2B+%22MCA+Nashville%22+%2B+revived&pg=PA32 | title=Billboard | date=16 July 1994 }}</ref>

Both British Decca and American Decca have come under the proprietorship of a single owner. PolyGram, which bought British Decca in 1980, and MCA, which bought American Decca twenty years earlier, were acquired by the [[Universal Music Group]] in 1998. The consolidation combining both American and British Decca under one parent company led to the shutdown of the Decca country music label in the USA and the [[London Records]] classical music arm renamed Decca Records in North America in February 1999.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zg4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Universal+%2B+decca+%2B+london+%2B+country+%2B+1998+%2B+classical&pg=PA31 | title=Billboard | date=20 February 1999 }}</ref> The catalogue of [[Philips Records]], also owned by Universal, has been merged with British Decca's.<ref name=s3/> Universal also owns [[Deutsche Grammophon]], which remains a separate label within the group and also manages the American Decca classical music catalogue.<ref>Barfe, pp. xvi–xvii</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/kell-complete-american-decca-recordings-10644 | title=KELL Complete American Decca Recordings }}</ref> In 2011 Universal donated 200,000 of its American Decca master recordings from the 1920s to the 1940s to the United States [[Library of Congress]].<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-11-003/ "Universal Music Group Donates Over 200,000 Master Recordings to the Library of Congress"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520145627/https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-11-003/ |date=20 May 2024 }}, Library of Congress, 9 January 2011</ref>

In 2017, Universal Music revived the [[Decca Gold]] American classical music label under the management of the [[Verve Label Group]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.universalmusic.com/decca-gold-announces-albums-emerson-string-quartet-van-cliburn-international-piano-competition/ | title=Decca Gold Announces Albums from Emerson String Quartet and the van Cliburn International Piano Competition | date=26 April 2017 }}</ref>