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Universal Music Group N.V. [3] (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Dutch–American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum , Netherlands and its operational headquarters are located in Santa Monica , California.
This is a list of Universal Music Group musical artists. Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and ...
Universal Music Group (UMG) owns, or has a joint share in, many of the record labels listed here.. According to the UMG official website, the main labels are Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Music Group, Decca Records, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Interscope-Geffen-A&M, Island Records, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Verve Label Group, and Virgin ...
UPDATED: Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, reported revenue of €2,870 million for the third quarter — an increase of 4.3% year-over-year, or 4.9% in constant currency ...
Within his first year as chairman & CEO of Universal, the company acquired EMI's Recorded Music operations. [12] Grainge argued that selling to Universal was the only way to improve EMI, for the benefit of the entire industry. [13] UMG subsequently attempted to revitalise former EMI labels including Capitol Records and Virgin Records. [14]
When PolyGram was purchased by MCA (now Universal Music) in 1999, the resulting record label consolidations left Mercury under The Island Def Jam Music Group umbrella, making Mercury in the US dormant until recently, but still active internationally. The consolidations in Nashville that created UMG Nashville kept the Mercury Nashville imprint ...
Universal Music Enterprises (UME, stylized as UM e) is the catalogue division of Universal Music Group. It includes Hip-O Records , Universal Chronicles, and UM 3 or UMC (which is the international division of the company).
The expensive merger created what is today, the biggest major music company, Universal Music Group. [4] On time for New Year's Day 1999, Universal Music combined the operations of MCA sister labels Interscope Records and Geffen Records with PolyGram subsidiary A&M Records. The combined labels were altogether consolidated into an umbrella unit ...