Universal Music Group is the largest American music cooperation. It works as a subsidiary of the Paris-based media conglomerate “Vivendi”. It was founded in 1934. They also own Universal Publishing Group, which is the world’s second largest music publishing company in the world. UMG’S global conglomerate headquarters are in Santa Monica, California. Its website is universalmusic.com. Its revenue is $6 billion and it has 6,967 employees.
Artists they are signed to include:
· Black Eyed Peas
· Mariah Carey
· 50 Cent
· Gwen Stefani
· Kanye West
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a recorded music company, being a 50-50 joint venture between Bertelsmann AG and the Sony Corporation of America. Sony Music Entertainment, being the venture’s successor, is owned by the Sony Corporation of America. It was founded in March 3rd, 2004. Its headquarters are in New York City, US. Its website is sonybmg.com. Sony BMG is one of the Big Four music companies, and it includes distribution and ownership of recording labels such as Columbiana Records, J Records, Epic Records, Arista Records, Mchenry Records, RCA Victor Records, Jive Records and more.
Artists they are signed to include:
· Kelly Clarkson
· Alicia Keys
· Outkast
· Shakira
· Britney Spears
EMI Group Limited are known as EMI Music or just simply EMI. It is a British multinational music publishing and recording company, which is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It broke up in 2012, at this time being the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. It was also one of the Big Four record companies. Its record labels included Parlophone, Capitol Records and EMI Records. It was founded in 1931. Its website is emimusic.com.
Artists they are signed to include:
· The Beatles
· Coldplay
· Gorillaz
· Rolling Stones
· Robbie Williams
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