Jabadoo Records

Jabadoo Records is a Dutch record label and a trade name of Jabadoo Holding B.V. It operates in the Netherlands and is associated with the musical output of the De Club van Sinterklaas brand world, the best-known Sinterklaas entertainment franchise in the Netherlands. The official De Club van Sinterklaas website describes a music world with more than 190 Sinterklaas songs, 61 million streams and 2.7 million listeners on Spotify in 2024–2025, indicating that the label's catalog is closely tied to this seasonal family entertainment asset. The label is positioned as a rights-holding and music distribution entity rather than a standalone artist brand. Its parent company, Jabadoo Holding B.V., is the corporate vehicle behind the trade name. Public evidence about Jabadoo Records is limited to its identity as a Dutch record label and trade name; the provided sources contain no details about its founding date, founders, headquarters address, or executive team. Because of its association with De Club van Sinterklaas, its commercial activities are concentrated on the Dutch market and Dutch-language Sinterklaas music. The franchise began in 1999 as a Fox Kids television series and grew into a world encompassing films, theater performances, and music. Jabadoo Records therefore sits at the intersection of Dutch holiday entertainment and recorded music, serving a catalog that supports film, theater productions, and streaming releases. The label should be understood as a specialized sub-label within a broader family entertainment group. Its releases are not aimed at the general international pop market but at the Dutch Sinterklaas season and the audience that has grown up with the De Club van Sinterklaas characters. Its brand value is thus closely tied to the longevity and recognition of the franchise, which the official website describes as a Dutch Sinterklaas tradition since 1999.

Jabadoo Records is a Dutch record label and the trade name of Jabadoo Holding B.V. Its history is closely intertwined with the De Club van Sinterklaas franchise, which began in 1999 as a television series on Fox Kids. According to the official De Club van Sinterklaas website, that series grew into the best-known Sinterklaas universe in the Netherlands, spanning cinema films, live theatre, and a dedicated music world. The site states that the franchise has produced fourteen consecutive cinema films, each awarded a Gouden Film, and that its music catalogue includes more than 190 Sinterklaas songs. It also reports 61 million Spotify streams and 2.7 million Spotify listeners in 2024–2025, figures that reflect the scale of the music operation associated with the brand. As the record label and trade name behind this music output, Jabadoo Records functions as the rights and release vehicle for Sinterklaas songs connected to the franchise. The label's parent, Jabadoo Holding B.V., is the corporate entity that owns the trade name. Publicly available evidence does not specify when Jabadoo Records was founded, who founded it, or where it is headquartered. What is clear is that it is a Dutch label operating in the Netherlands and that its identity is tied to the De Club van Sinterklaas property. The franchise's expansion into music has been part of a broader strategy of extending the brand across media. The official site describes the De Club van Sinterklaas universe as encompassing cinema, stage, and home entertainment, with exclusive Videoland series and a large song catalogue for sing-alongs. Jabadoo Records therefore occupies a specific niche: releasing and managing music that supports films, theatre shows such as the annual production at the Beatrix Theater Utrecht and AFAS Circustheater Scheveningen, and the KADO on TOUR concert show across eleven Dutch theatres. Because the label is private and its parent is a holding company, detailed financial and corporate history is not publicly available in the supplied sources. Its story is best understood as part of the commercial infrastructure behind one of the Netherlands' most enduring seasonal entertainment brands, rather than as an independent label with a broad artist roster. The label's fortunes rise and fall with the Sinterklaas season and with the continued popularity of the De Club van Sinterklaas characters.

• 1999

  De Club van Sinterklaas franchise begins as a television series on Fox Kids.

• The franchise grows into a universe of cinema films, theatre shows, and music, with Jabadoo Records as the associated record label trade name.

Specialist Dutch record label and trade name within the De Club van Sinterklaas family entertainment universe.

• Sinterklaas songs and soundtracks

  Music releases tied to the De Club van Sinterklaas films, theatre shows, and series.

1. 1De Club van Sinterklaas | Theatershow, Film & Ticketsdeclubvansinterklaas.nl
2. 2Jabadoo Recordswikidata.org