1. Doug Morris, Chief Executive Officer, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Kevin Kelleher, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
2. Sony Music Entertainment is an American music corporation
owned and controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the
United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation. Sony
Music was founded as American Record Corporation in
1929, renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938
following on ARC's acquisition by CBS which later reorganised
the record company in 1966 as CBS Records. Sony Music
Entertainment was founded in 1991 when Sony Corporation of
America, which bought CBS Records in 1987, changed the
record company's name. In 2004, SME merged with
Bertelsmann Music Group to create Sony BMG Music
Entertainment but it was renamed back to SME when Sony
acquired Bertelsmann's 50% of Sony BMG causing the
dissolution of BMG (later relaunched as BMG Rights
Management after the buyout). It is currently the world's second
largest record company behind Universal Music Group.
4. Columbia – Rock: AC/DC, Aerosmith
and Ozzy Osbourne
RCA – Pop: Pink, Justin Timberlake and
Britney Spears
Sony Music International Companies –
Brit Pop: Alexandra Burke, Leona Lewis
and Westlife
5. Record Labels
Arista Nashville, Beach Street Records, Bystorm
Entertainment, Columbia Nashville, Columbia
Records, Day 1, Epic Records, Essential
Records, Flicker Records, Kemosabe
Records, Legacy
Recordings, MASTERWORKS, Polo
Grounds, RCA Records, RCA Nashville, Reunion
Records, Roc Nation, Sony Classical, Sony Music
Latin, Star Time International, Syco Music, Verity
Music Group, Volcano
6. Featured Artists
Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, Ciara,
Chris Adams, Dry the River, Karmin,
Ke$ha, Kenny Chesney, Labrinth,
Michael Jackson, Paloma Faith, Paul
Simon, Rebecca Ferguson, Rita Ora
and Walk Off the Earth
7. Baling future pies
Ashley likes brambly apple.
RA: the sony music label for
“underground” artists.
