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Sony Music

Logo: Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

American multinational music recording company

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American, Japanese-owned, multinational music company owned by Sony Group Corporation. It is the recording division of Sony Music Group, with the other half being the publishing division, Sony Music Publishing.2 Its chief executive is Rob Stringer.1 It employed 8,578 people in 2020.1 Its revenue was $7.3 billion in 2017.1 It is part of Sony Entertainment.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

Jan 1, 2009Founded1
  • Industryentertainment industry, music industry, show business1
  • HeadquartersNew York City1
  • Founded inNew York City1
  • Websitewww.sonymusic.com
  • Legal formPartnership3
  • Kind of organizationPartnership1
  • LEI549300G0VTDMY8H0RM043
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered address251 LITTLE FALLS DRIVE, 19808 Wilmington, United States3
  • Registered withDivision of Corporations, Department of State, 38242093

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Sony Building by David Shankbone crop
Photo: David Shankbone ; cropped by Beyond My Ken ( talk ) 13:28, 30 January 2011 (UTC), CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons5

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American, Japanese-owned, multinational music company owned by Sony Group Corporation. It is the recording division of Sony Music Group, with the other half being the publishing division, Sony Music Publishing.2

Corporate structure

Sony Music is part of a group headed by Sony Group. 288 entities, 31 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Sony Music reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Leadership

Who has led Sony Music, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • music

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Subsidiaries

  • AWAL
  • Ariola
  • Arista Nashville
  • Arista Records
  • BNA Records
  • Bad Boy Records
  • Columbia Records
  • Columbia Records, Inc.
  • Disruptor Records
  • Epic Records
  • Freebandz
  • In the Name Of
  • Indochine Records
  • Jive Records
  • Kemosabe Records
  • LaFace Records
  • Legacy Recordings
  • Lil Mboiz Publishing
  • Liquid State
  • Masterworks Broadway
  • Monument Records
  • Mosley Music Group
  • OKeh Records
  • Otto Dynamite
All 50 subsidiaries

Divisions

  • Legacy Recordings
  • Sony Music
  • Sony Music Special Products
  • Sony Music Commercial Music Group since Oct 1, 2008

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. 2013Top Dawg Entertainment became a subsidiary1
  2. Jan 1, 2009Acquired Columbia Records, Inc.1
  3. 2009Sony Music Entertainment France S.A.S. became a subsidiary1
  4. 2008Acquired Epic Records1
  5. 2008Acquired RCA Records1
  6. 1996Funtech Entertainment Corporation became a subsidiary1
  7. Succeeded Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc.1

Employees over time

  • 20208,5781

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

  • 2017$7.3B1

Timeline

  1. Jan 1, 2009Founded Founded in New York City1

Sources

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