more images |
| | Warner Music Group / labels (W) |
| Profile: | Formerly part of Time Warner, the Warner Music Group was purchased in March 2004 by Edgar Bronfman Jr. (former head of Universal before the studio and the label were sold to Vivendi) and a group of equity firms. It is now the world’s largest privately held independent music company, and it is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, Elektra, Lava, Maverick, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros., and Word. Warner Music International, a leading company in national and international repertoire operates through 37 affiliates and numerous licensees in more than 50 countries. Warner Music Group also includes Warner-Chappell Music, one of the world’s leading music publishers, with a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Warner Music Group is not an actual label, it is an umbrella company overseeing all of the Warner labels worldwide. Please use the applicable Warner label/imprint for new entries.
Note: Time Warner still has involvement—and, perhaps, some ownership—in Warner Music, since it does not license the trademarks it owns to Warner Music, unlike Hachette Book Group USA, which licenses the “W” logo shared by Time Warner and Warner Music for its Warner Books imprint, after it purchased Time Warner’s publishing division in 2006.
| | Sublabels: | Atlantic, CGD East West, Cordless Recordings, DRO Atlantic S.A., DRO EastWest S.A., Flying Nun Records, Gallo Record Company, Magneoton, Phono Music Zounds, Rhino Entertainment Company, Rykodisc, TELDEC, Time Warner AudioBooks, Tommy Boy Music, Warner Bros. Records, Warner Classics, Warner Home Video, Warner Music (Argentina), Warner Music (Australia), Warner Music (Austria), Warner Music (Belgium), Warner Music (Benelux), Warner Music (Brazil), Warner Music (Canada), Warner Music (Chile), Warner Music (Czech Republic), Warner Music (Denmark), Warner Music (Finland), Warner Music (Germany), Warner Music (Greece), Warner Music (Hungary), Warner Music (Italy), Warner Music (Japan), Warner Music (Malaysia), Warner Music (Mexico), Warner Music (New Zealand), Warner Music (Norway), Warner Music (Poland), Warner Music (Spain), Warner Music (Switzerland), Warner Music (Taiwan), Warner Music (Thailand), Warner Music Finland Oy, Warner Music France, Warner Music Group Soundtracks, Warner Music Hong Kong Ltd., Warner Music Sweden, Warner Music UK Ltd., Warner Music Vision, Warner Platinum, Warner Resound, Warner Strategic Marketing (US), Warner Sunset Records, Warner.ESP, WEA, WEA International Inc., Word Entertainment | | Contact Info: | Warner Music Group Corp.
75 Rockefeller Plz. Bsmt. 1
New York NY 10019-6990
212-275-2000
| | URLs: | http://www.wmg.com/ |
|
