Sony Music is one of the major record labels known as the "Big Three", along with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. It was founded in 1928 as American Record Corporation and changed its name to Sony Music Entertainment in 1991. Sony Music signs popular artists across many genres, such as Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, and Mariah Carey. The company focuses on talent over any specific musical style.

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2. • A record label is basically a company that signs on artists so they have a contract with the
company and the label will do the PR and advertisement for when the artist releases new
music.
• At the moment there are the Big Three when it comes to music labels and they are: Universal
Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music Group.
• Sony Music’s chairman is Doug Morris and it’s CEO is Robert Stringer.
• It was originally started up in 1928 as American Record Corporation but later changed it’s
name to Sony Music Entertainment in 1991.
• There are countless massive singers signed to Sony and their music ranges from rap to soul
music. Some of these artists include: Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Calvin Harris,
George Michael, Whitney Houston, Prince, Pink Floyd.
• As you can see from the range of artists stated above, Sony doesn’t sign people from any
specific genre and more focus on talent as most of the people on their contract list are very
famous and even known world wide.
• Sony’s original motto was ‘The One and Only’ and has changed multiple times as it’s more of
a slogan for advertisement, but it’s current one is BE MOVED’.
• Sony has been one of the ‘Big’ group since 1988 when the term was first created.
• They’ve been a consumers choice for years until 2016 when there was a ‘Sony Boycott’ over
the fact that they refused to let the singer ‘Kesha’ out of her contract despite allegations she
made against her music producer ‘Dr. Luke’.
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