Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest major label in the record industry, with a 23% market share. They have some of the world's biggest artists including Aerosmith, Eminem, Luciano Pavarotti and U2.

"Universal Music" was originally the music company attached to film studio Universal Pictures; its history is long and complex[1], but the present organisation was formed when its owners, Seagram, bought PolyGram and merged it with UMG in 1998. Seagram has since sold UMG to Vivendi.

Record labels

UMG owns a large number of record labels, including:

• Barclay Records
• Decca Records
• Deutsche Grammophon
• Dreamworks Records
• Geffen Records
• Interscope Records
• Island Def Jam Records
  • Island Records
  • Def Jam
• Jazzland Records
• Lost Highway Records
• MCA Nashville Records
• Mercury Nashville Records
• Mercury Records
• Motor Music Records
• Polydor
• Philips Records
• Stockholm Records
• Universal Classics Group
• Universal Motown Records Group
  • Universal Records
  • Universal South Records
  • Blackground Records
  • Motown Records
  • Republic Records
  • Cash Money Records
  • Bad Boy Records
  • Casablanca Records
  • Street Records Corporation
• Urban Records
• Verve Records

Universal Music Group also owns local "Universal" labels in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

See also

• List of who owns what
• List of assets owned by Vivendi
• Vivendi Universal
• List of record labels

External links

• Universal Music Group