This document summarizes four major music institutions: Sony Music, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. Sony Music is one of the largest with labels like Columbia Records and artists like Michael Jackson. EMI Music has over 1.3 million songs in its catalog and supports artists like Usher and Alicia Keys. Universal Music Group leads the global music industry with labels from A&M to Def Jam and distributes artists widely, including Mariah Carey. Warner Music Group was founded as Warner Bros. Records and owns labels like Atlantic and Reprise, as well as publishing company Warner/Chappell Music.

1. Music
Institutions
ANNIE SADOWSKI

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Definition

3. Sony Music
 Sony music is probably one of the largest and well known music
institutions.Founded in 2004, it has an ownership of numerous
labels such as Columbia Records, Legacy Recordings,Epic
Records,RCARecords, Masterworks,Sony Music Latin and many
more.
 The featured artists of Sony Music include Michael Jackson,
Whitney Housten, Calvin Harris, One Direction and Foo Fighters,
all of which have progressedin terms of popularity and are now
music superstars.
 Sony music is a global company, its offices being located around
the globe such as Australia,India, and the US often means global
successfor these artists.As a result artists signed to Sony Music
are often guaranteed success due to the wide distributionof this
company and the wide range of fans produced .

4. EMI Music
 Named Billboard’s Publisher of the Year for the last
twelve years in the United States, and Music Week’s
Publisher of the Year in the UK for another two years,
this music institution has 1.3 million Songs in the EMI
Music Publishing Catalog. They represent songs that
can range from pop hits to classic R&B and many
more.
 They support artists such as Usher and Alicia Keys.
 Its records include; Virgin Records, Angel Records,
Blue Note Records and many others.

5. Universal Music Group
 Universal Music Group (UMG) is the global music leader with strong
market positions in recorded music, music publishing, and merchandising.
 It had as a diverse family of record labels such as : A&M Records, ,
Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol
Records,Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Disa, Emarcy, EMI
Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records and others .
 An advantage of this music institution is it markets and distributes an
artists music across a wide range of platforms, a well known example is
Vevo.
 Artists signed to this music institution include Busta Rhymes, Mariah
Carey, Jennifer Lopaz, Akon and so on. The artists are compromised from
a wide range of places around the world, hence why Universal Music
Group is such a large institution that dominants music.
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6. Warner Music Group  Founded in 1958 as Warner Bros. Records it is an American major
global record company headquarteredin New York City.
 Record labels in the music industry include Asylum, Atlantic, Big
Beat, East West, Elektra, Fueled By Ramen, Nonesuch,
Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Rykodisc, Sire, Warner
Bros., Warner Classics.
 Warner/Chappell Music, the global music publishingcompany of
Warner Music Group, and is home to a wide array of songwriters
and a rich catalog of contemporary hits and influential standards.
 Artists signed to this institutioninclude Paramore, Bruno Mars,
B.o.B, Plan B and others.