Research on Record Company - Point 3
Research on Universal Music groups
It's history...
Universal Music group was founded in 1934 and is one of the big 4 in the music industry.
The world's leading music company
In November 1990, Japanese multinational conglomerate Matsushita Electric agreed to acquire MCA for $6.59 billion.
Publicly traded on the stock exchange.
Universal Music Group is an American global music corporation that is majority owned by the French media conglomerate Vivendi, with Chinese tech company Tencent owning a minority stake.
CEO is Lucian Grainge who was appointed in 2011 and is still CEO.
What other media does it own...
Universal media has a net worth of $33 billion.
Bravado
Def Jam Recordings
Havas
Daily motion
Vivendi Village
They have universal music in a range of different countries such as Portugal, Finland, Germany, Canada, Brussels, Brazil, Austria ect. These are all under the name Universal Music … and then whatever country they are representing.
Some separate labels are Capital Record UK, Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Music Groups, Fame House, Island Records, EMI Australia ect
The list goes on and on … they have a huge range of labels
The companies biggest stars...
Taylor Swift
Ariana Grande
BTS
Queen
Billie Eilish
Drake
Post Malone
Ed Sheeran
Lady Gaga
The Beatles
The genre of the music they publish...
They cover all different genres from pop all the way to classical, they also support a huge range of song writer such as Adele, Beach Boys,, Jason Derulo, Coldplay, Dua Lipa ect.
They are tied down to one or two genres.
Since they are also known all over the world they have a range of different genres through that as artists can produce different types of songs depending on the culture that they grew up in or are surrounded in, nowadays.
Yasmine Pickering - NEA 4: The record company - Google Slides
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