Universal Music Group is the largest music corporation in the world, operating as a subsidiary of French media company Vivendi. Some artists signed to Universal include Amy Winehouse, Ashanti, and Avicii. Universal Music Group owns several subsidiary labels like Capitol Music Group and Republic Records. Warner Music Group owns major labels like Atlantic Records and owns 15.8% of the total music market. Their artists include Coldplay, Katy Perry, and Wiz Khalifa. Sony Pictures Entertainment is the entertainment subsidiary of Japanese company Sony and owns Columbia Records and Dreamville. Their artists include Bruno Mars, Foo Fighters, and Kid Ink. Sony has artists across many genres like rap, pop, and hip-hop.

1. Universal Music Group, is the largest
music corporation in the world. An
American-based, French-owned
multinational music corporation, it
currently operates as a subsidiary of
Paris-based media conglomerate Vivendi.
Some of the artists that are signed
to universal are: Amy Winehouse,
Ashanti and avicii.
Headed by Chairman
Jimmy Iovine, Interscope
Geffen A&M is a major
force across a wide range
of musical genres including
rock, rap, pop, alternative,
Latin, gospel and
soundtracks.
Some of the Subsidiary labels within
Universal Music Group:
-Capitol Music Group
-Def. Jam Records
-Republic Records
-Island Records
Headed by Chairman Jimmy Iovine,
Interscope Geffen A&M is a major
force across a wide range of
musical genres including rock, rap,
pop, alternative, Latin, gospel and
soundtracks.

2. After Warner Bros. was sold to
Seven Arts Productions in 1967
(forming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts),
it purchased Atlantic Records,
founded in 1947 and WMG's oldest
label (until WMG completed its
acquisition of Parlophone in 2013),
as well as its subsidiary Atco
Records.
In the latest figures that have
been taken, it was been
exemplified that Warner
Music Group currently have a
15.8% owning of the total
market share.
Here is a list of artists who
are signed to Warner music
group:
- Coldplay, Alesha dixon,
Catherine Jenkins, Flor-
Rida, Katy Perry and Wiz
Khalifa.
As you can see, Warner music group do
know mainly recruit a specific genre of
artist. They tend to recruit multiple
artists of multiple genres.

3. For the Japanese film
company within the Sony
corporation, see Sony
Pictures Entertainment
Japan. Sony Pictures
Entertainment Inc. (SPE) is
the American
entertainment subsidiary
of Japanese multinational
technology and media
conglomerate Sony.
Sony are the owners of
multiple worldwide artists
such as:
Bruno mars, Destiny’s child,
Foo Fighters, ke$ha and Kid
ink.
Sony music entertainment are the
parents of many subsiduary labels,
some of these are:
Columbia records, Startime
international and Dreamville.
As Sony music entertainment are such
a large corporation, they therefore
don’t have artists of a specific genre.
They have artists who produce rap,
pop, hip-hop and so on. This allows for
them to increase the size of their
audience as they can sell to followes of
multiple genres.

4. - The table above has been produced to portray the physical and digital market shares
owned by what then was “The Big Four” but has now become “The Big Three”. It shows
how the shares have varies and fluctuated between the years of 2011 and 2013.
Originally in 2011, Universal had the largest owning in both the digital and physical shares
at 27.9%, closely followed by Sony with 21.9% and lastly Warner music group with only
15.1%. Over the next year(2012), Universal and Sony were gaining even more shares with
both companies seeing increase of between 1-3%. But these gains for these two
companies could only mean that decrease would be seen by the other main music
companies.

5. -In 2012, EMI saw a 2.8% fall in their shares
and Warner saw a 0.3% fall in their shares.
Come 2013, the constant increase of shares for
Warner music group had seen another 5% gain
in the market shares. Due to their new found
dominance in market shares, it caused for EMI
to now have no shares left in the market after
the $1.2billion takeover by Universal music
group.