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Sony Music Holdings

New York holding company of Sony's record business, incorporated in 1987 as CBS Records Inc. and named Sony Music Entertainment Inc. from 1991 to 2009.

Registered in
🇺🇸 United States
Founded
17 November 1987
Owned by
Sony Group Corporation
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Who owns Sony Music Holdings

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Sony Music Holdings
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Sony Group Corporation owns
Discogs files the company under the parent label Sony Corporation, today Sony Group Corporation; Wikipedia records Sony's purchase of CBS Records, completed in January 1988

About Sony Music Holdings

Sony Music Holdings Inc. is the New York company through which Sony took over the CBS Records business. Discogs gives it New York company number 1218162, incorporated on 17 November 1987 as CBS Records Inc., renamed Sony Music Entertainment Inc. on 4 January 1991 and Sony Music Holdings Inc. on 16 January 2009, and files it under the parent label Sony Corporation.[1] Sony acquired CBS Records for US$2 billion on 17 November 1987, the sale being completed on 5 January 1988; the record company was renamed Sony Music Entertainment on 1 January 1991, and from 2004 its business outside Japan went into the Sony BMG joint venture with Bertelsmann.[2] It was the parent of Sony's national record companies, among them Sony Music Entertainment (Finland) Oy.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Discogs label 19795: Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-24. Record: 19795. profile, parent label.
  2. ↑ Wikipedia: Sony Music Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-24. lead, history 1971–2004. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  3. ↑ Discogs label 110591: Sony Music Entertainment (Finland) Oy Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-24. Record: 110591. profile, contact info, parent label.
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