Sony Music was founded as American Record Corporation in 1929 and is the second largest recording company in the music industry. It is an American music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation. In 2004 they were known as Sony BMG Music Entertainment as they were a joint business enterprise between the Sony corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG. The merge affected both companies in a negative way, so on August the 4th 2008 Sony corporation of America decided to buy the other half of the company. Now owning 100% of the company they changed the name to Sony Music Entertainment. It is sometimes known as Sony Music or simply SME. They have a wide array of successes such as One Direction, Chris Brown and Willow Smith. The companies headquarters are located in New York, USA. http://www.sonymusic.com/
Universal Music GroupUniversal Music Group otherwise known as UMG is also based in America and is a French owned multinational music corporation. It currently operates as a subsidiary of Paris based media conglomerate Vivendi. It is the largest business in the music industry. The company was founded in 1934 as DECCA Record USA but then developed into MCA Music Entertainment Group in 1989. A few years later the first UMG succession was formed which was developed into the Universal Music Group. They have supported many popular artists such as: Lady GaGa, Eminem and Justin Bieber.
http://www.universalmusic.com/
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group, also known as Warner Music or WMG is an American major global record company headquartered in New York City. It is largest American-owned music conglomerate worldwide,
and is the third largest company in the global music industry. The company operates some of the largest and most successful recording labels in the world, including Warner Bros. Records, Parlophone Records and Atlantic Records. Some artists that have worked alongside Warner Music Group are: Wiz Khalifa, Plan B and Bruno Mars. http://www.wmg.com/
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