Provident Label Group
US record label
Provident Entertainment is a division of Sony Music Entertainment headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee and focused primarily on Christian music. The group handles its own physical distribution through its Provident-Integrity service.
Provident Label Group
Current labels
Essential Records
Essential Worship
Flicker Records
iShine Records
Reunion Records
Beach Street Records
Praise Hymn Soundtracks
Former labels
Brentwood Records
Benson Records
Fervent Records
Diadem Music Group
Provident Special Markets
Provident-Integrity distribution
In addition to its own labels, the distribution arm of Provident provides Christian-market distribution to these labels:
7Spin Music
Arista Records
BMG Classics (now Sony Masterworks)
Boneyard Records (official label of T-Bone (rapper))
Comin Atcha Distribution
Creative Trust Workshop
Cross Movement Records
Galilee of the Nations
GospoCentric Records/B-Rite Music
Gray Matters
INO Records
Integrity Gospel
Integrity Media
New Haven Records
RCA Records/RCA Inspiration
Save the City Records
Track Star Records
Verity Records
Wind-up Records
Provident Films
Provident Films is a division of Provident Entertainment. They have promoted notable films including Facing the Giants (2006), Courageous (2011), and Ring the Bell (2014).
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7252527. VIAF identifies the subject as 142303055. The Library of Congress control number is no2010032018. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2014.
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