What are the "top five record companies"?

The five major record companies are Sony Records, Warner Music Group, Universal Records, EMI Records and BMG.

1, Sony Records

Sony Records is a music business group under Sony Corporation, which belongs to Sony Music Entertainment Company. Its main business is to distribute and customize records. Now, after several reorganizations and mergers, Sony Music has developed into the largest music record company in the world.

The roots of Sony Music can be traced back to the history of Sony Columbia Records, which was founded in 1890 and belongs to CBS, one of the three major television networks in the United States.

2. Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group is one of the three largest record companies in the world in the 2 1 century. It originally belonged to time warner Inc. Group, which owns media giants such as Warner Bros., Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine and CNN.

Warner entered the Chinese-language market in the middle and late 1990s by acquiring UFO Records, a famous local record company in Taiwan Province Province, accounting for 30% of the Chinese-language record market.

3. Universal Records

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest record company in the world, which belongs to Vivendi Group of France, accounting for 25.6% of the world record market.

Universal Records was founded in 19 12, and has the largest music content library in the world, from classical to jazz to pop. Its many famous music brands, such as German phonograph, Decca, Mercury Records, etc.

4.EMI record

EMI is one of the top five record companies in the world, founded in 1897. Its predecessor was British Gramophone Company and British Columbia Gramophone Company.

193 1 year, two record companies merged into the electrical and music industries, and now they are the brands of Universal Records. 199 1 year, Thorn-EMI Group of the United Kingdom merged Viking Records, an independent brand owned by the United Kingdom, into its subsidiaries at the price of 10 billion dollars.

5、BMG

BMG is one of the top five record companies in the world, whose full name is Bertelsmann Music Group. It is the German media giant Bertelsmann Group, the second largest media empire in the world and the music business subsidiary of the most global media company.

Bertelsmann was founded by Karl Bertelsmann in Germany on 1835. He first made his fortune in the book industry by publishing the Bible, and 1958 set foot in the music field for the first time, acquiring two record companies, Ariola and Sonopress in Germany and Austria respectively.

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