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Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the "Big Three" record companies (also called Majors), with Sony Music and the Universal Music Group being the other two, and the world’s largest privately held music company. It is the home of many of the best-known record labels in the world. Those include Atlantic, Elektra/Asylum, Maverick, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Sire, and Warner Bros. WMG operates through nearly 40 branches and numerous licensees in more than 70 countries, and also includes Warner-Chappell Music, one of the world’s leading music publishers, with a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
The cornerstones for today's company were laid when NYC based Atlantic and Burbank/LA based Warner Brothers joined forces and formed Warner Music International (WMI) in 1970. After for some years having been a part of Time Warner (Time magazine, CNN etc.), WMG in 2004 was purchased by Edgar Bronfman, Jr. (head of Universal before the studio and label were sold to Vivendi) and a group of equity firms. In 2011, Billionaire Leonard Blavatnik via his investment Access acquired the vast majority in the company. On June 3rd, 2020, 15 % of the company stock went public, capitalizing $ 1.9 billion and still leaving 80 % Access'es hands. - Related labels
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Asylum A main label of
EMI Local branch (2013-)
Elektra Music Group WMG is the roof company of EMG
Festival Mushroom Records Taken over in 2005
Fonomusic Sublabel (2002-)
Gala Records [RU] Sublabel
GoodWill Sublabel
Magneoton Sublabel
Metamorfosis Sub-label
Metronome Records Label and subcompany (1979-...)
Parlophone Daughter company (since 2013)
Pomaton Sublabel (2014-...)
Spinnin' Records Sublabel (2007-...)
Warner Bros. Records Lead label (2004-2019)
Warner Music Australia Local branch
Warner Music Canada Local branch
Warner Music Chile Local branch
Warner Music France Local branch
Warner Music Germany Local branch
Warner Music Group Central Europe Territorial division
Warner Music Hong Kong Local branch
Warner Music Japan Local branch
Warner Music Korea Local branch
Warner Music Latina Territorial division
Warner Music Mexico Local branch
Warner Music Nashville Repertoire division
Warner Music New Zealand Local branch
Warner Music Philippines Local branch
Warner Music Poland Local branch
Warner Music Spain Local branch
Warner Music Switzerland Local branch
Warner Music Taiwan Local branch
Warner Music UK Local branch
Warner Music Vision Video production arm
Warner Records Lead label (2019-...)
Warner Special Products Co-operational marketing division
Warner Strategic Marketing Sublabel
Warner/Chappell Publishing arm