Universal Music Group

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Image:Universalmusic.gif Universal Music Group (UMG), formerly MCA Music Entertainment (see Music Corporation of America), is the largest major label in the record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Big Four record labels. It is owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi Universal. They have some of the world's biggest artists including Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, Eminem, Luciano Pavarotti, Rammstein, U2, Kanye West, and 50 Cent. It also owns one of the largest music publishing businesses of the world, the Universal Music Publishing Group.

"Universal Music" was originally the music company attached to film studio Universal Pictures; its history is long and complex [1], but the present organisation was formed when its parent company Seagram purchased PolyGram and merged it with UMG in 1998. Seagram has since merged with Vivendi SA, to form Vivendi Universal.

Record labels

UMG owns, or has a joint share in, a large number of record labels, including:

• Barclay Records
• Blackground Records
• Cinepoly
• Deutsche Grammophon
• DreamWorks Records
  • Show Dog Records
• Go East Entertainment
• Hollywood Records (Owned by The Walt Disney Company, distributed by Universal in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the rest of Latin America only)
• Interscope Geffen A&M Records
  • A&M Records
  • Geffen Records
  • Interscope Records
    • Aftermath Entertainment
    • G-Unit Records
    • MySpace Records
    • Shady Records
    • Vagrant Records
• The Island Def Jam Music Group
  • Dame Dash Music Group
  • Def Jam Records
  • Def Soul Records
  • Disturbing tha Peace Records
  • The Inc. Records
  • Island Records
  • Lost Highway Records
  • Roadrunner Records
  • Roc-A-Fella Records
  • Russell Simmons Music Group
• Jazzland Records
• MCA Nashville Records
• Mercury Nashville Records
• Mercury Records
• Motor Music Records
• Nhi Le Records
• Polar Music
• Polydor
• Philips Records
• RMM Records
• Stockholm Records
• Universal Classics Group
  • Decca Records (Its classics holdings only.)
• Universal Motown Records Group
• Universal Music Group Nashville
• Universal Music TV
• Universal Records
• Universal South Records
• Motown Records
• Republic Records
• Cash Money Records
• Casablanca Records
• Street Records Corporation
• Urban Records
• Verve Music Group
  • Verve Records
  • GRP Records
  • EmArcy Records
  • Impulse! Records
  • Commodore Records
  • Coral Records
  • Blue Thumb Records
  • Brunswick Records
  • Decca Records (Its jazz holdings only.)
  • Verve Forecast

Universal Music Group also owns local "Universal" labels in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland (which apparently licences all Universal content which is available to Yahoo! Music UK & Ireland), Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

See also

• List of record labels
• Lists of corporate assets
• List of assets owned by Vivendi
• Vivendi Universal

External link

• Official sitefr:Universal Music Group

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