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MGM Records; Parent company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1946–1972) PolyGram (1972–1982): Founded: 1946; 79 years ago (): Founder: Geoffrey Mill: Defunct: 1982; 43 years ago (): Status: Merged into PolyGram, former music catalog now owned by Universal Music Group, most soundtracks catalog now owned by WaterTower Music (excluding Born Free, owned by Sony Music via Madison Gate Records).
ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. (Allen & Betty Klein Company) is an American independent record label, music publisher, and film and video production company.It owns and/or administers the rights to music by Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, Dishwalla, the Kinks as well as the Cameo Parkway label, which includes recordings by such artists as Chubby ...
Universal also owns Deutsche Grammophon, which remains a separate label within the group and also manages the American Decca classical music catalogue. [103] [104] 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. [105]
As part of the buyout, Bertelsmann kept the rights to master recordings by 200 artists, which formed the basis for a second version of BMG. Sony and Bertelsmann last teamed up in 2013, in a failed bid to acquire Parlophone from Universal Music Group. BMG would administer the label's back catalogue, while its current artists would sign with Sony ...
On November 26, 2016, A Day to Remember won the lawsuit against Victory Records. The band was given $4.02 million and won three of the four issues they were suing Victory for fulfilling the bands contract, controlling the band's publishing, and digital royalty withheld from the band. Victory won the band's master recordings. [63]
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Music Group, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the second major company to produce records. [ 4 ]
Warner Music Group Corp., [6] commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.It is one of the "big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Group (SMG).
RCA Records is an American record label.Since 2008, it has been owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.. RCA Records is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also Arista Records, and Epic Records.