Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group, the industry's leading global music publishing operation.
Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group are pumping money into Latin music.
The world's biggest recording company, Universal Music, has plans to reinvent the way that CDs are sold.
Perhaps more importantly, Universal Music Group invested in Beats and lent its considerable muscle to promoting the headphones.
Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries.
Even Universal Music, an industry Mr Diller cares little for, would fit in this constellation, thanks to Mr Geffen's experience.
UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.).
America has Vevo, a music-video website linked to YouTube and owned in part by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.
The top five artist albums in the first three months were all released on labels owned by the Universal Music Group.
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When it launched in October 2008, Spotify publicized music rights deals with Sony BMG Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, EMI and Merlin.
Checking into certain bars in the U.S. with two other Facebook friends will grant one five free MP3s from Universal Music Group.
An industry consortium of music labels and film studios, including Universal Music and Sony, are believed to favour Hilco, according to newspaper reports.
"For me, as an Englishman, EMI was the pre-eminent music company that I grew up with, " said Universal Music chairman and chief executive Lucian Grainge.
By early January 2008, a few months after Amazon MP3 launched, the three other major labels--Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG--dropped DRM.
The story notes that Vevo offers music from three of the four major music labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music.
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"None of the labels you're dealing with are major music companies, " objects Stuart Hersch, president of Universal Music Group, who has scrutinized Gould's business plan.
The agreements are with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers.
An industry group of music labels and film studios, including Universal Music and Sony, were reported on Monday to favour a buyout of HMV by Hilco.
Andy Schuon, president and chief executive officer of Pressplay, an online music service formed as a joint venture of Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
In June it entered into a joint venture with Universal Music Group to create a new label, Desi Hits Universal, fully funded by the record label giant.
In mid-September it sealed a broad, though nonexclusive, agreement with Universal Music Group to encode the label's active U.S. catalog of 14, 000 albums and 30, 000 music videos.
Big music companies like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group are already experiencing a sharp decline in sales of compact discs.
And Sony BMG will join EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store.
Universal Music and Sony Music are both working with their stars to remix songs into shorter versions, up to two minutes long, that can be sold through mobile phones.
The Universal Music Collection, which consists of the company's best existing copies, will be cataloged and digitized at the Library's Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va.
Another paid application Universal Music, a TokBox customer, will pay the company to enable fans to have video sessions with star musicians that 10, 000 other people can watch.
Psy himself was recently signed to Schoolboy Records, the Universal Music Group imprint run by Scooter Braun, who also manages Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen and Asher Roth.
It is believed, but not confirmed, that Apple has come to an agreement with several major labels, including Universal Music, to launch a streaming service which has been informally dubbed "iRadio".
They have also requested financial information from Universal Music - the record label which released a Boomtown Rats greatest hits compilation and re-mastered versions of their six studio albums earlier this year.
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