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| 3 | [[https://wmg.com 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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| 5 | WMG's roots go back to 1958, when the Creator/WarnerBros film studio formed Creator/WarnerBrosRecords, which in turn bought Creator/RepriseRecords in 1963. In 1967, the studio (then known as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts) increased its presence in the music industry by acquiring Creator/AtlanticRecords. In 1970, Warner's corporate parent (then Kinney National Company) added Creator/ElektraRecords to the roster, and WEA Records ('''W'''arner-'''E'''lektra-'''A'''tlantic) was born. |
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| 7 | 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, [=WarnerMedia=] and currently 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 its namesake, WMG continues to operate under the Warner name and its '70s-era logo under license from the former parent company. |
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| 9 | 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. The Parlophone acquisition included the catalogue of the British branch of Creator/UnitedArtistsRecords, ironic given UA's past ownership of the pre-1950 WB film library. |
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| 11 | In the world of fandom, Warner's lawyers have a reputation for [[ScrewedByTheLawyers zealously defending]] the company's copyrights; many Website/YouTube videos have been removed or altered for using WMG-owned songs. Also, the WMG-affiliated publisher Warner/Chappell Music once claimed to own "HappyBirthdayToYou", resulting in its conspicuous absence from media for many years, until a legal challenge ended with the song definitively entering the PublicDomain. |
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| 13 | !!Labels owned by or affiliated with Warner Music Group: |
| 14 | [[index]] |
| 15 | * Alternative Distribution Alliance |
| 16 | * Arts Music |
| 17 | ** Build-A-Bear Workshop |
| 18 | ** Cloudco Entertainment |
| 19 | ** Erato Records |
| 20 | ** First Night Records |
| 21 | ** Creator/FredRogers Productions |
| 22 | ** Creator/{{Mattel}} |
| 23 | ** [[Series/SesameStreet Sesame Street Records]] |
| 24 | ** Skyship Entertainment |
| 25 | ** Warner Classical |
| 26 | * Asylum Records |
| 27 | * Creator/AtlanticRecords |
| 28 | ** Creator/AtcoRecords |
| 29 | * Creator/ChrysalisRecords (from 2013 until it was sold off in 2016) |
| 30 | * Creator/ElektraRecords |
| 31 | ** Creator/FueledByRamen |
| 32 | ** Creator/RoadrunnerRecords (Warner acquired a majority stake in the label in 2007 after a contract with Universal Music Group expired and came back for the rest in 2010) |
| 33 | * Creator/GeffenRecords (until 1990, when the label was sold to Creator/{{MCA}}) |
| 34 | * Maverick Records |
| 35 | * Creator/ParlophoneRecords |
| 36 | ** Creator/EMIColumbiaRecords (now defunct; Parlophone owns its catalog) |
| 37 | ** Creator/HisMastersVoiceRecords (as above) |
| 38 | ** Creator/StatesideRecords |
| 39 | * Creator/RadarRecords (now defunct) |
| 40 | * Creator/RhinoRecords (administers the back catalog across Warner and its subsidiary labels) |
| 41 | * Creator/{{Rykodisc}} (now defunct) |
| 42 | * Creator/SubPop (WMG owns a 49% stake in the label) |
| 43 | * Creator/WarnerBrosRecords (renamed Warner Records in 2019) |
| 44 | ** Creator/NonesuchRecords |
| 45 | ** Creator/RepriseRecords |
| 46 | ** Creator/SireRecords |
| 47 | * Walt Disney Records (distribution in certain territories until the mid-2000s) |
| 48 | ** Creator/HollywoodRecords (distributed by Creator/ElektraRecords until 1995, when distribution moved to [=PolyGram=]) |
| 49 | |
| 50 | !!Artists/songwriters whose copyrights are with Warner/Chappell Music: |
| 51 | * Creator/{{ABSCBN}} |
| 52 | * Music/{{Amaranthe}} |
| 53 | * Creator/AnnapurnaPictures |
| 54 | * Music/GeneAutry |
| 55 | * Music/BadReligion |
| 56 | * Music/{{Banks}} |
| 57 | * Music/BarenakedLadies |
| 58 | * Music/TheBlackCrowes |
| 59 | * Music/MichelleBranch |
| 60 | * Music/JamesBrown |
| 61 | * Music/MichaelBuble |
| 62 | * Music/CabCalloway |
| 63 | * Music/HarryChapin |
| 64 | * Music/{{Chevelle}} |
| 65 | * Music/EricClapton |
| 66 | * Music/DeathFromAbove1979 |
| 67 | * Music/{{Deftones}} |
| 68 | * Music/{{Disturbed}} |
| 69 | * Music/DrDre |
| 70 | * Music/DreamTheater |
| 71 | * Music/DuranDuran |
| 72 | * Music/{{Echosmith}} |
| 73 | * Creator/ElectronicArts |
| 74 | * Creator/{{Filmation}} |
| 75 | * Music/{{Foals}} |
| 76 | * Music/{{Fun}} |
| 77 | ** 2012 - Music/SomeNights |
| 78 | * Music/GinBlossoms |
| 79 | * Music/{{Godsmack}} |
| 80 | * Music/GreenDay |
| 81 | * Music/{{Grouplove}} |
| 82 | * Music/{{Halestorm}} |
| 83 | * Creator/HannaBarbera |
| 84 | * Music/{{Hanson}} |
| 85 | * Music/JayZ |
| 86 | * Music/QuincyJones |
| 87 | * Music/VanceJoy |
| 88 | * Music/{{Kimbra}} |
| 89 | * Music/KingMissile |
| 90 | * Music/{{Korn}} (90's albums) |
| 91 | * Music/LadyAntebellum |
| 92 | * Music/KendrickLamar |
| 93 | * Music/LedZeppelin |
| 94 | * Music/LilWayne |
| 95 | * Music/LinkinPark |
| 96 | * Music/LittleBigTown |
| 97 | * Music/LLCoolJ |
| 98 | * Music/{{Loreen}} |
| 99 | * Music/{{Madonna}} |
| 100 | * Music/ManicStreetPreachers |
| 101 | * Music/MarcyPlayground |
| 102 | * Music/BrunoMars |
| 103 | * Music/MelanieMartinez |
| 104 | * Music/CurtisMayfield |
| 105 | * Music/{{Megadeth}} |
| 106 | * Music/AlanMenken |
| 107 | * Music/GeorgeMichael |
| 108 | * Music/{{Muse}} |
| 109 | * Music/KaceyMusgraves |
| 110 | * Music/NewYorkDolls |
| 111 | * Music/{{Nickelback}} |
| 112 | * Music/FrankOcean |
| 113 | * Music/{{Pantera}} |
| 114 | * Music/{{Paramore}} |
| 115 | * Music/KatyPerry |
| 116 | * Music/{{Primus}} (non-USA) |
| 117 | * Music/PuddleOfMudd |
| 118 | * Music/CharliePuth |
| 119 | * Music/{{Radiohead}} |
| 120 | * Music/{{Ramones}} |
| 121 | * Music/RedHotChiliPeppers (between ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' and ''The Getaway'')[[note]]rights now owned by Hipgnosis[[/note]] |
| 122 | * Music/ThomasRhett |
| 123 | * Creator/StephenSchwartz |
| 124 | * Music/ScissorSisters |
| 125 | * Creator/AllanSherman[[note]](shared with Songtrust)[[/note]] |
| 126 | * Music/NinaSimone |
| 127 | * Music/{{Slash|Musician}} |
| 128 | * Music/TheSmashingPumpkins |
| 129 | * Music/StephenSondheim |
| 130 | * Music/SoulAsylum |
| 131 | * Music/SoulCoughing |
| 132 | * Music/SouljaBoy |
| 133 | * Music/{{Staind}} |
| 134 | * Music/ChrisStapleton |
| 135 | * Music/StaticX |
| 136 | * Creator/HaileeSteinfeld |
| 137 | * Music/StoneTemplePilots |
| 138 | * Music/TheStrokes (non-USA) |
| 139 | * Music/SugarRay |
| 140 | * Music/TalkingHeads |
| 141 | * Music/TheyMightBeGiants |
| 142 | * Music/ToveLo |
| 143 | * Music/TreySongz |
| 144 | * Music/TwentyOnePilots |
| 145 | * Music/TheVamps |
| 146 | * Music/VanHalen |
| 147 | * Music/{{Versailles}} |
| 148 | * Music/WakaFlockaFlame |
| 149 | * Music/JohnWilliams |
| 150 | * Music/{{Yello}} |
| 151 | * Music/RobZombie |
| 152 | [[/index]] |
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