2. Sony
• Why is sony one of the big 3?
• Originally founded in 1929 as the American record Company .
• Second Largest of the big three. Owns epic records, Columbia records both of which was the
label of a Manic Street Preachers the artist that made the song I am making the video for.
• Sony is a Japanese conglomerate however Sony Music is based in America and the artists it
has on its label and its subsideries range all over the world, the uk.
• It makes billions a year.
• Changed its name to sony music entertainment in 1991.
• Been a big music label since 1988 when the term was first starting to be used.
• Subsidaries are used in some cases to differentiate genre, sony music itself wont
discriminate against certain given genres for example the subsidiary epic records had shakira
signed simaltaneously with the Manic Street Preachers showing that even subsidiaries d o
not discriminate.
