UNIVERSAL

By Ellie Day, Roxy Treagus and Jacob

Helvadjian

• Universal Music Group is the largest group and family of record labels in the music industry.

• Universal owns a music publisher, Universal Music Publishing Group who are the worlds largest following the acquisition of BMG music publishing in May 2007

• Universal owns and has joint shares in a large number of record labels such as: Interscope records and Geffen records.

• President – Steve Burke, Zach Horowitz• Boyd Muir: CFO•Max Hole: Chief operating Officer of UMG

international• Limited liability company• Universal studios are owned by NBC Universal• Universal music was once the music company

attached to film studio universal pictures. Its origins go back to the formation of the American branch of Decca Records in 1934.

• Started in 1995 and was founded by Doug Morris and Daniel Glass, its main

head quarters is currently in New York

• It is the worlds leading music company (representing about 80% of the

industrys market)

• The Universal Music Group also has a Universal Music Latin Entertainment

company which is the worlds biggest one. Where as Universal Music Group

international manages UMG’s businesses in all countries outside the USA.

• Its publishing music company, Universal Music Publishing Group, it’s the

worlds leading publishing business, it owns and obtains right to musical

compositions and licenses them for use in the recordings and other uses for

example films and adverts.

Universal record labels

Interscope Geffen A&M

The Island Def Jam Music Group

Universal Republic Records

Universal Music Group Nashville

Decca Label Group

The Verve Music Group

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Universal music enterprise

Universal music latin entertainment

A&M/Octone

• 2010 Universal Music Group The Black Eyed Peas become first group to sell over 6

million US digital downloads with “I Gotta Feeling” VEVO named #1 online music

destination by com Score UMPG.