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.


Who owns it...

  • 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


Companies mission statement...

Universal Music Group's mission statement is ‘to identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans all around the world’

Other record labels they own...

  • 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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