Warner Music Group (WMG): an American major global music institution and is the largest American owned music organisation in the world. The company is made up of three recording companies, Warner Bros, Records and Atlantic Records; they also own Chappell Music which is one of the world’s largest music publishing companies. Warner Music Group work with different types
of artists and genres which vary
from punk rock artists such as
‘GreenDay’ to RnB singer ‘Trey
Songz’.AtlanticRecords, one of
the subsidiary companies focus
more on specific genres such as RnB, Rock and Roll and Jazz.
Sony Music Entertainment: the second largest
music corporation in the world, which mainly
works through ‘Sony BMG Music Entertainment’
the music recording company.
Currently there is
diversity within artists a part of the
company including Adele (UK), After School (Korea),Ciara (US), Anna Vissi (Greece). Sony Music Entertainment has many label branches such as, ‘Provident label Group’, ‘Syco Music’, ‘Sony Music Nashville’ and ‘Columbia Label Group’. ‘Syco Music’ is a UK based entertainment company which was started by famous television producer Simon Cowell in 2002, with artist’ such as Alexandra Burke who is currently under the company.
Universal Music Group (UMG): Have
a numerous amount of record labels
some being: A&M/Octone, Barclay,
Decca, Def Jam Recordings, ECM,
Emarcy, Fonovisa, Geffen Records,
Interscope, Island Records, Lost
Highway, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records.
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