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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.
On December 9, 1996, the new owners dropped the MCA name; the company became Universal Studios, Inc. and its music division, MCA Music Entertainment Group, was renamed Universal Music Group (UMG), headed by Morris. In 1997, MCA Records adopted a new logo that featured the parent company's former full name, Music Corporation of America.
On 1 January 2011 he became CEO of Universal Music Group, and then chairman on 9 March 2011, succeeding Doug Morris. [11] 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 ...
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 ...
Who owns Universal Music Group? Universal Music Group, which is led by Chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge, is the world’s biggest music rights company, per Music Business Worldwide.
MCA Records continued to live on as a label within the Universal Music Group. The following year, G. P. Putnam's Sons was sold to the Penguin Group subsidiary of Pearson PLC. In 1996, Universal Studios filed a lawsuit against Viacom over the latter's launch of the TV Land cable network.
Universal Music CEO Lucian Grainge issued a letter to UMG employees on Thursday to announce a restructuring of its current operating model. In the memo obtained by Variety, Grainge writes the move ...
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 ...