Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company comprised of recorded music and music publishing businesses. It signs artists worldwide, develops, markets, and distributes their music through subsidiaries licensed in 77 countries representing 98% of the global music market. UMG's music publishing business owns and licenses musical compositions. It has many labels around the world including Island Def Jam Music Group formed in 1999 through a merger and Universal Music Latin Entertainment created through the acquisition of Univision Music Group.

2. UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUPUniversal
Music Group (UMG)
This is the world’s leading music company and is comprised of two
core businesses: recorded music and music publishing. This company
sign on artists world wide, develops their work, market the products,
and also distributes their albums/recorded music through a joint
ventures and subsidiaries which are license in 77 different countries,
which represents 98% of the music market, this straight domination.
Universal Music Latin Entertainment, the world’s leading Latin Music
Company. That is also signed to Universal too, which just increases the
company’s popularities in the business. UMG's music publishing
company, Universal Music Publishing Group, is the world's leading
publishing business; it owns and acquires rights to musical
compositions and licenses them for use in recordings and related uses,
such as films and advertisements. Universal is international with many
small labels in countries all around the word; Europe, South America,
Asia Pacific and North America.

3. UMG’s strength and legacy of music flows from a
diverse family of record labels which include:
A&M / Octone, Barclay, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, ECM,
Emarcy, Fonovisa, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam
Music Group, Machete Music, Mercury Records, Polydor Records,
Show Dog–Universal Music, Universal Motown Republic Group,
Universal Music Latino, Universal Music Group Nashville (which
includes Lost Highway, MCA Nashville and Mercury Nashville), and
Verve Music Group.

4. The Island Def Jam is a record label group formed in the 1999 when Universal Music Group
merged two of its small companies, Island Records and Def Jam recordings, to create a label
group.
This Label is linked to a wide range of different artist with different types of Genres such as; Rap, Hip
Hop, RnB, Slow Jams, Pop, Bashment / dancehall.
Artists signed to this label:
Akon (RnB)
50 Cent (Rap)
N-Dubz (Hip Hop)
Lil Wayne (RnB, Rap)
Fabolous (RnB and Slow Jams)
Jeremih (Slow Jams. RnB)
Rolling Stones (Rock)
Lady Sovereign (Rap)

5. Universal Music Latin Entertainment is a record label owned by Universal Music Group. The
music label was created with the acquisition of Univision Music Group and combining it
with Universal's top Latin artists. UMLE includes famous Latin music labels such as
Fonovisa and Disa Records.
Machete Music Artists:
AKWID
Wisin y Yandel
Ivy Queen
Daddy Yankee
Don Omar
Molotov

6. This is part of Universal UK Group. Which has many smaller records
assigned to the Group;
• Decca Classics
• Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label which was the foundation
of the future corporation to be known as Poly Gram.
• ECM
(Edition of Contemporary Music) is a record label founded in Munich,
Germany, in the 1969 by Manfred Eicher. Well know for the Jazz music
they produce, but has released a wide variety of recordings,.