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226 relations: AC/DC, Adele, Administrative Council for Economic Defense, American Record Corporation, Ariola, Arista Nashville, Arista Records, ASAP Rocky, AWAL, Aware Records, BBC, BBC News Online, Bertelsmann, Bertelsmann Music Group, Best Buy, Beyoncé, Bi-2, Big Three (American television), Billboard (magazine), Biography (TV program), BMG Rights Management, Brazil, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bring Me the Horizon, Brit Awards, Britney Spears, Capital (radio network), CBS, CBS Corporation, CBS Records (2006), CBS Records International, Century Media Records, Chennai, Chief executive officer, Chrysalis Music, Clive Davis, CNBC, CNN, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Records, Compact disc, Conflict of interest, Conglomerate (company), Connie Chung, Connie Chung Tonight, Copyright, Copyright infringement, Craig David, Date Records, David Johansen, ... Expand index (176 more) »
- American companies established in 1929
- Entertainment companies established in 1929
- Recording Industry Association of America
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973.
Adele
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter.
Administrative Council for Economic Defense
The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (in Portuguese, Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, often referred to as Cade or CADE) is Brazil's national competition regulator and an agency of the government of Brazil.
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American Record Corporation
American Record Corporation (ARC), also referred to as American Record Company, American Recording Corporation, or ARC Records, was an American record company in operation from 1929 to 1938, and again from 1978 to 1982.
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Ariola
Ariola (also known as Ariola Records, Ariola Express, Ariola-Eurodisc and BMG Ariola) is a German record label.
Arista Nashville
Arista Nashville was an American record label that served as a wholly owned division of Sony Music, operated under the Sony Music Nashville division.
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Arista Records
Arista Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. Sony Music and Arista Records are Companies based in New York City.
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ASAP Rocky
Rakim Athelaston Mayers (born October 3, 1988), known professionally as ASAP Rocky (stylized as A$AP Rocky), is an American rapper.
AWAL
AWAL is a global recording business that claims to serve as an alternative to the traditional record label, offering deal structures that provide artists the resources and expertise of a global label while allowing them to retain ownership and control of their music. Sony Music and AWAL are record label distributors.
Aware Records
Aware Records is an American record label.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC News Online
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.
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Bertelsmann
The Bertelsmann SE & Co.
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Bertelsmann Music Group
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group are record label distributors.
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Best Buy
Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.
Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.
Bi-2
Bi-2 (Bi-dva) is a Belarusian alternative rock band, formed in 1988 in Babruysk, Belarusian SSR.
Big Three (American television)
From the 1950s to the 1980s, during the network era of American television, there were three commercial broadcast television networks – NBC (the National Broadcasting Company, "the Peacock Network"), CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System, "the Eye Network"), ABC (the American Broadcasting Company, "the Alphabet Network") – that due to their longevity and ratings success are informally referred to as the "Big Three".
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Biography (TV program)
Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the 1960s by David L. Wolper and owned by A&E Networks since 1987.
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BMG Rights Management
BMG Rights Management GmbH (also known simply as BMG) is an international music company based in Berlin, Germany. Sony Music and BMG Rights Management are record label distributors.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut and the fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020.
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Bring Me the Horizon
Bring Me the Horizon are a British rock band, formed in Sheffield in 2004.
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Brit Awards
The BRIT Awards (often simply called the BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards.
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer.
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Capital (radio network)
Capital is a network of twelve independent contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
CBS Corporation
The second incarnation of CBS Corporation (the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.
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CBS Records (2006)
CBS Records was a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Studios.
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CBS Records International
CBS Records International was the international arm of the Columbia Records unit of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
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Century Media Records
Century Media Records is a German heavy metal record label with offices in Germany, the United States and London.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
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Chrysalis Music
Chrysalis Music is a British independent music publisher.
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Clive Davis
Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is an American record producer, A&R executive, record executive, and lawyer.
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CNBC
CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.
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Compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.
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Conflict of interest
A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another.
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Conglomerate (company)
A conglomerate is a type of multi-industry company that consists of several different and unrelated business entities that operate in various industries under one corporate group.
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Connie Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung (born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist who has been a news anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC.
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Connie Chung Tonight
Connie Chung Tonight is an American television newsmagazine hosted by Connie Chung.
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Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
Copyright infringement
Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to produce derivative works.
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Craig David
Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is a British singer and songwriter who rose to fame in 1999, featuring on the single "Re-Rewind" by Artful Dodger.
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Date Records
Date Records was a sub-label of Columbia Records which had two different incarnations.
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David Johansen
David Roger Johansen (sometimes spelled David Jo Hansen; born January 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and actor.
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Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Def Jam Recordings
Def Jam Recordings (also simply known as Def Jam) is an American multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. Sony Music and Def Jam Recordings are Companies based in New York City.
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Defstar Records
was a Japanese record label, a subsidiary of Sony Music Japan.
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Disc cutting lathe
Presto 8N Disc Cutting Lathe (1950) used by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to record radio programs A disc cutting lathe is a device used to transfer an audio signal to the modulated spiral groove of a blank master disc for the production of phonograph records.
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Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.
Dissolution (law)
In law, dissolution is any of several legal events that terminate a legal entity or agreement such as a marriage, adoption, corporation, or union.
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DJ Fresh
Daniel Edward Stein (born 11 April 1977), known professionally as DJ Fresh, is an English DJ and record producer.
Doug Morris
Doug Morris (born November 23, 1938) is an American record executive.
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Dr. Luke
Łukasz Sebastian Gottwald (born September 26, 1973), known professionally as Dr.
Electric Light Orchestra
The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan.
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Elvis Presley albums discography
The albums discography of Elvis Presley began in 1956 with the release of his debut album, Elvis Presley.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. Sony Music and EMI are IFPI members and record label distributors.
EMI Music Publishing
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. is a British multinational music publishing company headquartered in London, owned by Sony Group Corporation. Sony Music and EMI Music Publishing are IFPI members.
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Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.
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Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. Sony Music and Epic Records are IFPI members.
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Fiscal year
A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes.
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Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter, record producer and philanthropist.
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Got Talent
Got Talent is a British talent show TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment.
Grupo Globo
Grupo Globo (Globo Group), formerly and still legally known as Organizações Globo (Globo Organization), is a Brazilian private entertainment and mass media conglomerate based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Henry Lee Summer
Henry Lee Summer (born Henry Lee Swartz; July 5, 1955) is an American rock singer and musician from Indiana.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian Music Industry
The Indian Music Industry (IMI) is a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in India.
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INews
iNews, short for Indonesia News, formerly named SUN TV and Sindo TV, is an Indonesian free-to-air television broadcaster founded by Media Nusantara Citra, a subsidiary of MNC Asia Holding.
Inflation
In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.
Inside Out Music
Inside Out Music is a German progressive rock record label originally based in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, and dedicated to the publication of progressive rock, progressive metal and related styles. Sony Music and Inside Out Music are IFPI members.
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Interaksyon
Interaksyon (stylized in all lowercase) is a Philippine digital news website owned by Philstar Global Corporation, a subsidiary of MediaQuest Holdings's Philstar Media Group (Hastings Holdings).
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Invincible (Michael Jackson album)
Invincible is the tenth and final studio album by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on October 30, 2001, by Epic Records.
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Irv Gotti
Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. (born June 26, 1970), professionally known as Irv Gotti (or DJ Irv), is an American DJ, music producer and record executive.
IsoHunt
isoHunt was an online torrent files index and repository, where visitors could browse, search, download or upload torrents of various digital content of mostly entertainment nature.
Ivory Music and Video
Ivory Music and Video, Inc. (formerly Ivory Records Corporation) is a Philippine record label owned by Viva Music Group, a subsidiary of Viva Communications, Inc. The label works with OPM veteran artists and bands/groups such as the Company, Side A, Wolfgang, MYMP, Roselle Nava and April Boy Regino, as well as contemporary artists like Maja Salvador and Silent Sanctuary.
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J Records
J Records was an American record label owned and operated by Bertelsmann Music Group until it was transferred to Sony Music Entertainment when they acquired all of BMG's record labels in late 2008 at the end of their merger.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jason Iley
Jason Iley is the current Chairman and CEO of Sony Music UK.
Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (born December 11, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter and bassist.
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Jet (magazine)
Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community.
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Jive Records
Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group. Sony Music and Jive Records are IFPI members.
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Joan Jett
Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin; September 22, 1958) is an American rock singer, guitarist, songwriter, record producer, and actress.
John Waite
John Charles Waite (born 4 July 1952) is a British rock singer and musician.
Kesha
Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), known mononymously as Kesha (formerly stylized as Ke$ha), is an American singer and songwriter.
Kesha v. Dr. Luke
Kesha v. Dr.
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Koala Music
Koala Music (until 8 September 2022 known as Sony Music Russia (Sony Music Entertainment Russia); and until 18 September 2023 known as Kiss Koala) is a Russian record label.
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Kobalt Music Group
Kobalt Music Group, Ltd. is an independent rights management and music publishing company.
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Kommersant
(Коммерсантъ,, The Businessman or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business.
LaFace Records
LaFace Records was an American record label based in Atlanta, Georgia, that operated as a unit of Sony Music Entertainment from 2008 to 2011 and was historically a part of Bertelsmann Music Group from 1989 to 2004.
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Legacy Collection
The Legacy Collection or Legacy Series was a series of releases by Columbia Records (later, following a reorganization, called CBS Records) that combined LP records with books.
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Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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Lil Nas X
Montero Lamar Hill (born April 9, 1999), better known by his stage name Lil Nas X, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.
List of Sony Music artists
This is a list of recording artists signed to Sony Music Entertainment (and its labels distributed by the music company).
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List of Sony Music labels
This is a list of record labels owned by, or associated with Sony Music Entertainment (SME).
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List of Warner Music Group labels
Warner Music Group (WMG) owns, has a joint share, or is associated with the record labels listed here.
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Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
Listen Without Prejudice Vol.
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Lists of record labels
File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos.
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London Grammar
London Grammar are an English indie pop band formed in Nottingham in 2009.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Loud Records
Loud Records, LLC. (a backronym for Listeners of Urban Dialect) is a record label founded by Steve Rifkind and Rich Isaacson in 1991.
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LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.
Manila Bulletin
The Manila Bulletin (also known as the Bulletin and previously known as the Manila Daily Bulletin from 1906 to September 23, 1972, and the Bulletin Today from November 22, 1972, to March 10, 1986) is the Philippines' largest English language broadsheet newspaper by circulation.
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Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is a British-American musician, DJ, and producer.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Metropolitan Life North Building
The Metropolitan Life North Building, now known as Eleven Madison, is a 30-story Art Deco skyscraper adjacent to Madison Square Park at 11–25 Madison Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist.
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Milan Records
Milan Records is a record label located in Los Angeles, California specializing in film scores and soundtrack albums.
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Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound or Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, shared workspace and private members' club, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio.
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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
Music Business Worldwide
Music Business Worldwide (MBW) is a global music industry news and analysis website launched in 2015 by former Music Week editor Tim Ingham.
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Music industry
The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.
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Music Week
Music Week is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Sony Music and new York Daily News are Companies based in New York City.
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New York Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the judiciary of New York.
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Nickelodeon Records
Nickelodeon Records (formerly only known as Nick Records from 2001 to 2010) is the defunct record label for the children's television channel Nickelodeon, which is owned by Paramount Global.
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Nigger
In the English language, nigger is a racial slur directed at black people.
Nippon Columbia
, often pronounced Korombia, operating internationally as, is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd.
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Okeh Records
OKeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.
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One Direction
One Direction, often shortened to 1D, are an English-Irish pop boy band formed in London in 2010.
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Oriole Records (UK)
Oriole Records was a British record label, founded in 1925 by the London-based Levy Company, which owned a gramophone record subsidiary called Levaphone Records.
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Ortigas Center
Ortigas Center is a central business district located within the joint boundaries of Pasig, Mandaluyong and Quezon City, within the Metro Manila region in the Philippines.
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Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English musician and media personality.
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Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith Blomfield (born 21 July 1981) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Paramount Global
Paramount Global (also known simply as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan. Sony Music and Paramount Global are Companies based in New York City.
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Pasig
Pasig, officially the City of Pasig (Lungsod ng Pasig), is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines.
Penske Media Corporation
Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.
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Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (born April 5, 1973), often known mononymously as Pharrell, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and fashion designer.
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Pitman, New Jersey
Pitman is a borough in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.
Portrait Records
Portrait Records was a sister label of Epic Records and later of Columbia Records.
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Price fixing
Price fixing is an anticompetitive agreement between participants on the same side in a market to buy or sell a product, service, or commodity only at a fixed price, or maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given level by controlling supply and demand.
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Provident Label Group
Provident Entertainment is a division of Sony Music headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee and focused primarily on Christian music.
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Radionomy
Radionomy was an online platform that provided tools for operating online radio stations.
RCA Inspiration
RCA Inspiration (formerly Verity Gospel Music Group) is a gospel music group operating under Sony Music.
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RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. Sony Music and RCA Records are Companies based in New York City.
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RCA Records Nashville
RCA Nashville is an American country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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RCA Red Seal Records
RCA Red Seal is a classical music label whose origin dates to 1902 and is currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment.
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Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors.
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RED Music
RED Music, stylized RED MUSIC, formerly RED Distribution, LLC (Relativity Entertainment Distribution) was a Sony-owned sales and marketing division that merged under The Orchard in 2017. Sony Music and RED Music are record label distributors.
Relentless Records
Relentless Records is a record label currently headed by co-founder Shabs Jobanputra.
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Republic Records
Republic Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG).
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Resale price maintenance
Resale price maintenance (RPM) or, occasionally, retail price maintenance is the practice whereby a manufacturer and its distributors agree that the distributors will sell the manufacturer's product at certain prices (resale price maintenance), at or above a price floor (minimum resale price maintenance) or at or below a price ceiling (maximum resale price maintenance).
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Rob Stringer
Robert Adrian Stringer (born 13 August 1962) is a British music industry executive.
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter.
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Robbins Entertainment
Robbins Entertainment LLC is an American dance music record label.
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Roc Nation
Roc Nation is an American entertainment company founded by Jay-Z in 2008.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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SBK Records
SBK Records was a record label, owned by Universal Music Group, that is currently part of the Capitol Music Group, where it is in hibernation.
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Sigala
Bruce Fielder (born 1 November 1992), known professionally as Sigala, is an English DJ and record producer.
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur, and record executive.
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Som Livre
Som Livre (Portuguese for "Free Sound") is a Brazilian record company that was founded in March 1969 in order to commercialize the soundtracks for Rede Globo (its then parent company) soap operas. Sony Music and som Livre are IFPI members.
Somethin' Else (content agency)
Somethin' Else is a London and New York content agency, specialising in content strategy and production across video, television, audio and social media.
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Sony
, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Sony BMG
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was an American record company owned as a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann. Sony Music and Sony BMG are record label distributors and recording Industry Association of America.
Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal
In 2005 it was revealed that the implementation of copy protection measures on about 22 million CDs distributed by Sony BMG installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying.
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Sony Classical Records
Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.
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Sony Corporation of America
The Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA) is the American arm of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. Sony Music and Sony Corporation of America are American subsidiaries of foreign companies.
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Sony Entertainment
Sony Entertainment, Inc. is the umbrella entertainment division of Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation and managed by its American subsidiary, established in 2012 to oversee the corporation's ventures in film, television and music. Sony Music and Sony Entertainment are Companies based in New York City.
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Sony Masterworks
Sony Music Masterworks (also known simply as Sony Masterworks) is a record label, the result of a restructuring of Sony Music's classical music division.
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Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. Sony Music and Sony Music are American companies established in 1929, American subsidiaries of foreign companies, Companies based in New York City, entertainment companies established in 1929, IFPI members, record label distributors and recording Industry Association of America.
Sony Music Australia
Sony Music Entertainment Australia is the predominant record label operated by American parent company Sony Music Entertainment in Australia. Sony Music and Sony Music Australia are IFPI members and record label distributors.
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Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as SonyMusic), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Sony Music and Sony Music Entertainment Japan are IFPI members.
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Sony Music Group
Sony Music Group (SMG) is the umbrella American multinational company that controls Sony's recording and music publishing business outside of Japan, owned by Sony Group Corporation and managed by Sony Entertainment. Sony Music and Sony Music Group are Companies based in New York City.
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Sony Music India
Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Sony Music and Sony Music India are record label distributors.
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Sony Music Latin
Sony Music Entertainment US Latin LLC (often referred to as Sony Music Latin) is an American record label owned by Sony Music.
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Sony Music Nashville
Sony Music Nashville is the country music branch of the Sony Music Group.
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Sony Music Philippines
Sony Music Philippines, Inc. is a record label based in the Philippines, which was founded in 1995 as an imprint of the international music label Sony Music Entertainment and a part of its Asia-Pacific chain.
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Sony Music Publishing
Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC (formerly Sony/ATV Music Publishing) is the largest music publisher in the world, with over five million songs owned or administered as of end March 2021. Sony Music and sony Music Publishing are American subsidiaries of foreign companies.
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Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms. Sony Music and Sony Pictures are American subsidiaries of foreign companies.
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SRC Records
SRC (Street Records Corporation) was an American record label created by former Loud Records CEO Steve Rifkind.
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Stmpd Rcrds
Stmpd Rcrds (stylised in all caps; pronounced "stamped records") is a Dutch electronic dance music record label owned by record producer Martin Garrix, who founded the label on 4 March 2016.
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Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.
Supreme Court of British Columbia
The Supreme Court of British Columbia is the superior trial court for the province of British Columbia, Canada.
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Syco Entertainment
Syco Entertainment is a British media entertainment and production company, headquartered in London, founded and owned by British entrepreneur and record executive Simon Cowell.
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Syco Music
Syco Music, originally and formerly S Records, was a division of Syco Entertainment which operated from 2002 until 2020.
T-Series (company)
Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, doing business as T-Series, is an Indian music record label and film production company founded by Gulshan Kumar on 11 July 1983. Sony Music and t-Series (company) are record label distributors.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.
Target Corporation
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Tero Entertainment
Tero Entertainment Public Co.
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Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about east of the state's western border with Illinois.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Echo Label
The Echo Label was a British record label started by Chrysalis Group in 1994, and linked with Pony Canyon in Japan.
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The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Fabulous Thunderbirds is an American blues band formed in 1974.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Heavy Entertainment Show
The Heavy Entertainment Show is the eleventh studio album by English recording artist Robbie Williams.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Orchard (company)
The Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., doing business as The Orchard (also known as The Orchard Music), is an American music and entertainment company, specializing in media distribution. Sony Music and The Orchard (company) are record label distributors.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The X Factor
The X Factor is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon Cowell and his company Syco Entertainment.
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Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian-American multinational information conglomerate.
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Todd Moscowitz
Todd Moscowitz is an American music industry executive.
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Tommy Mottola
Thomas Daniel Mottola (born July 14, 1948) is an American businessman, record executive, television producer, theater producer, film producer, investor, and serial entrepreneur.
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TorrentFreak
TorrentFreak (TF) is a blog dedicated to reporting the latest news and trends on the BitTorrent protocol and file sharing, as well as on copyright infringement and digital rights.
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Tree International Publishing
Tree International Publishing was a major music publisher, based in Nashville.
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Ultra Records
Ultra Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Dutch–American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. Sony Music and Universal Music Group are IFPI members, record label distributors and recording Industry Association of America.
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Uptown Funk
"Uptown Funk" is a song by British record producer Mark Ronson and featuring American singer Bruno Mars.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Victor Talking Machine Company
The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901.
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Vivendi
Vivendi SE is a French mass-media holding company headquartered in Paris.
Volcano Entertainment
Volcano Entertainment (sometimes referred to as Volcano Records) is an American all-round music record label founded in 1996 which released albums by Tool, 311, Size 14, Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. Sony Music and Warner Music Group are Companies based in New York City, IFPI members and record label distributors.
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William S. Paley
William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990) was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States.
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Work Group
The Work Label (stylized as The WORK Group) was an American record label.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.
Yandex Music
Yandex Music (r) is a Russian music streaming service developed by Yandex.
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Zee Music Company
Zee Music Co.
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Zomba Group
The Zomba Group of Companies (sometimes referred to as Zomba Music Group or just Zomba Group) was a music group and division owned by and operated under Sony Music Entertainment.
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19 Entertainment
19 Entertainment is a producer of entertainment properties for television with a focus on music owned by Sony Pictures Television through its nonfiction division.
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See also
American companies established in 1929
- Airstocks
- American States Water
- Astoria Marine Construction Company
- Avco
- Blue Plate Mayonnaise
- Braniff International Airways
- Carvel (franchise)
- Central Vermont Public Service
- Cintas
- Continental Aerospace Technologies
- Curtiss-Wright
- Dell Comics
- Farmland Industries
- Federal's
- Fleetwings
- Fleischer Studios
- General Foods
- Golden West Financial
- Hamilton Standard
- Harman and Ising
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Hill-Rom
- J. Rich Steers, Inc.
- Kerr-McGee
- Lord & Schryver
- Ludington Airline
- National Steel Corporation
- New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line
- Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
- Norwest Corporation
- O-I Glass
- Pan American-Grace Airways
- RKO Pictures
- Rowell Laboratories
- S.G. Loewendick & Sons
- Shipley Energy
- Silver Spring Foods
- Sonotone (hearing aid)
- Sony Music
- Southern Air Transport (1929)
- Southern Union Company
- Terrytoons
- Testor Corporation
- The Lacassane Company
- United Aircraft and Transport Corporation
- United Technologies
- Vermont Transit Lines
- Wiggins Airways
Entertainment companies established in 1929
- Cinema City International
- Sony Music
Recording Industry Association of America
- Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas-Rasset
- Center for Copyright Information
- Dorian Recordings
- Elektra v. Santangelo
- Graduated response
- List of highest-certified music artists in the United States
- Operation Payback
- Parental Advisory
- Peermusic
- RIAA certification
- RIAA equalization
- Recording Industry Ass'n of America v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.
- Recording Industry Association of America
- Sono Luminus
- Sony BMG
- Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum
- Sony Music
- Trade group efforts against file sharing
- Universal Music Group
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