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Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records (a division of CBS, Inc. ), and had a significant market presence in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
Throughout the 1990s, corporate CD clubs like Columbia House and the BMG Music Service dumped millions upon millions of compact discs on a consumer public ready to replace their vinyl collections ...
In 1991, Sony partnered with Time-Warner in a joint venture that enabled Columbia House to market both companies' music and video offerings. In 2002 the enterprise was sold to an investment group, [ 30 ] and three years later was acquired by BMG Direct Marketing (an outgrowth of RCA Direct Marketing, successor to the RCA Victor Record Club ...
SoundScan initially did not track albums sold in supermarkets, and never tracked those sold through mail-order music clubs such as Columbia House or BMG Music Club. [53] [54] ‡ Album certifications from February 1, 2016 onward include "on-demand audio and video streams and a track sale equivalent." [1]
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]
[11] [12] In March 2000, the Columbia House merger was called off. [13] In June 2000, the company closed its London office to cut costs. [14] In July 2000, Bertelsmann Music Group acquired the company, intending to combine it with its BMG Direct record club as a new venture called BeMusic, and eventually add Napster to the service.
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 .
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]