History Creator / WarnerMusicGroup

!!Labels affiliated with Warner Music Group:

* Creator/HollywoodRecords (distributed by Creator/ElektraRecords until 1995, when the label was sold to [=PolyGram=]; WMG still distributed the label in Russia until the mid-2000s)

* Creator/HollywoodRecords (distributed by Creator/ElektraRecords until 1995, when the label was sold to [=PolyGram=]; WMG still distributes the label in Russia)

In 2013, Warner Music Group became even larger after the British music conglomerate Creator/{{EMI}} went out of business; EMI's assets were divided between a Sony/ATV-led consortium (songwriters), Creator/UniversalMusicGroup (which got EMI's American assets, most notably Creator/CapitolRecords and its catalog, rights to Music/TheBeatles recordings, European assets in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland and Switzerland, Creator/VirginRecords, and all of their global arms and archives), and WMG, which got Creator/ParlophoneRecords (owner of EMI's British and, save for the countries mentioned earlier, European catalog, except for the aforementioned Beatles). [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], WMG and EMI had tried to merge and/or buy each other out several times beforehand.

** 1999 - ''Music/{{Showbiz}}''
** 2001 - ''Music/OriginOfSymmetry''
** 2003 - ''[[Music/AbsolutionAlbum Absolution]]''
** 2006 - ''Music/BlackHolesAndRevelations''
*** "Music/KnightsOfCydonia"
** 2009 - ''[[Music/TheResistanceAlbum The Resistance]]''
** 2012 - ''[[Music/The2ndLaw The 2nd Law]]''
** 2015 - ''Music/{{Drones}}''
** 2018 - ''Music/SimulationTheory''
** 2022 - ''Music/WillOfThePeople''

* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers (between ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' and ''The Getaway'')

* Creator/HollywoodRecords (distributed by Creator/ElektraRecords until 1995; WMG still distributes the label in Russia)

* Creator/HollywoodRecords (distributor, Russia only)

* Music/TheRamones

Warner Music Group Corp. is one of the recording industry's most successful conglomerates. It's also the only one that isn't part of a larger entertainment company, although that wasn't always the case.

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Warner Music Group is one of the recording industry's most successful conglomerates. It's also the only one that isn't part of a larger entertainment company, although that wasn't always the case.

* Music/{{Slash}}

* Music/{{Buckcherry}}

For decades, WEA (which was eventually renamed Warner Music Group) was one of the most profitable divisions of the Warner conglomerate, which was variously known as Warner Communications, AOL Time Warner, Time Warner, and [=WarnerMedia=]. (Its current name is Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery.) This lasted until 2004, when debt-ridden Time Warner sold WMG to a group of independent investors, who in turn sold it to its current owner, Access Industries, in 2011. Despite no longer being affiliated with [=WarnerMedia=], WMG continues to operate under the Warner name under license from the former parent company.

For decades, WEA (which was eventually renamed Warner Music Group) was one of the most profitable divisions of the Warner conglomerate, which was variously known as Warner Communications, AOL Time Warner, and Time Warner (currently being called Creator/WarnerMedia). This lasted until 2004, when debt-ridden Time Warner sold WMG to a group of independent investors, who in turn sold it to its current owner, Access Industries, in 2011. Despite no longer being affiliated with [=WarnerMedia=], WMG continues to operate under the Warner name under license from the former parent company.

In 2013, Warner Music Group became even larger after the British music conglomerate Creator/{{EMI}} went out of business; EMI's assets were divided between a Sony/ATV-led consortium (songwriters), Creator/UniversalMusicGroup (which got EMI's American assets, most notably Creator/CapitolRecords and its catalog, rights to Music/TheBeatles recordings, European assets in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland and Switzerland, and all of their global arms and archives), and WMG, which got Creator/ParlophoneRecords (owner of EMI's British and, save for the countries mentioned earlier, European catalog, except for the aforementioned Beatles). [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], WMG and EMI had tried to merge and/or buy each other out several times beforehand.

* Creator/{{Rykodisc}}