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In 1987, BMG had acquired RCA Records and changed the name of Columbia House's only surviving rival, RCA Music Service (formerly RCA Victor Record Club), to BMG Music Service. In 1991, the CBS Records Group was renamed Sony Music Entertainment , and Sony sold half of Columbia House to Time Warner , which contributed Time Life 's video and music ...
BMG Music Publishing (formerly known as RCA Music Publishing), which was not part of the Sony BMG merger, was a business of the Bertelsmann Music Group until it was sold to Universal Music Group for €1.63 billion in 2007. Universal then folded the company into Universal Music Publishing Group, and the BMG name was retired. [2]
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was an American record company owned as a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann. The venture's successor, the revived Sony Music , is wholly owned by Sony , following their buyout of the remaining 50% held by Bertelsmann .
On the Official Albums Chart Top 100 of 4 November 2022, the label charted its first hit album in the form of Blue's Heart & Soul. [75] [76] [77] In October 2023, BMG signed with Universal Music Group for physical distribution, and started self-distributing its own catalog on digital platforms, thus ending their partnership with Warner Music. [78]
The following compact discs, sold by Sony BMG, were shipped with the computer software known as Extended Copy Protection (XCP). [1] As a result, any Microsoft Windows computer that has been used to play these CDs is likely to have had XCP installed.
Totally Hits was a series of various artists compilation albums released in collaboration with BMG and Warner Music Group, intending to showcase some of the most popular hit songs of the time. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The series was intended to rival EMI and UMG 's Now That's What I Call Music! series.
Before the release of No Gods No Masters, Garbage partnered with BMG to distribute the album through Infectious Music. [5] BMG has since shown interest in the band's back catalogue, reissuing the band's first two albums, Garbage and Version 2.0, on vinyl in summer 2021, [6] [7] [8] releasing the 20th anniversary edition of Beautiful Garbage in November, and posting the band's music videos on ...
Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that was purchased by Sony in late 2008 Sony Music , the purchaser of Sony BMG in 2008 and owner of the rights to its catalog Ariola Records , sometimes known as "BMG Ariola", originally a separate company, acquired in 1987 by Bertelsmann Music Group, then by Sony BMG in 2002, then ...