Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea): version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 14:23 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the South Korean CD edition of Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (8803581110975, Epic SB10097C), named by family/extraordinary-machine. Built from Discogs release 33941049 (barcode, catalogue . Current is v2.

Changes from v1 to current

1	1		# Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) <!--company-->
2	2
3	3		## Identity <!--identity-->
4	4		name: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)
5		−	summary: South Korean record company of the Sony BMG group, credited as distributor of Sony BMG releases in Korea in the mid-2000s.
	5	+	disambiguation: Sony BMG's South Korean company, 2004 to 2009, renamed Sony Music Entertainment Korea; not the earlier Sony Music Entertainment (Korea) Inc.
	6	+	summary: South Korean record company of the Sony BMG group from 2004, renamed Sony Music Entertainment Korea in 2009.
	7	+	legal_name: Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc.
6	8		country: KR
7	9		<!--/identity-->
8	10
	11	+	## Relations <!--relations-->
	12	+	\| role \| target \| market \| from \| until \| ended \| status \| source \| note \|
	13	+	\| ---------- \| -------------------------------------- \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \| ----- \| -------- \| ----------- \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|
	14	+	\| owned_by \| company/sony-bmg-music-entertainment \| \| 2004 \| 2009 \| \| verified \| ^mb-sbmg-kr \| MusicBrainz records Sony BMG Music Entertainment as owner of this label; Discogs files it under Sony BMG Music Entertainment as parent label \|
	15	+	\| renamed_to \| company/sony-music-entertainment-korea \| \| 2009 \| \| \| verified \| ^mb-sbmg-kr \| MusicBrainz records the rename to Sony Music Entertainment Korea Inc.; Discogs says it was succeeded in 2009 by that company \|
	16	+	<!--/relations-->
	17	+
9	18		## Aliases <!--aliases-->
10		−	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
11		−	\| -------- \| ------ \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
12		−	\| SONY BMG \| search \| ko \| \| \|
	19	+	\| name \| type \| locale \| from \| until \|
	20	+	\| --------------------------------------- \| ------ \| ------ \| ---- \| ----- \|
	21	+	\| SONY BMG \| search \| ko \| \| \|
	22	+	\| Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. \| legal \| en \| 2004 \| 2009 \|
	23	+	\| Sony BMG Korea \| search \| en \| \| \|
13	24		<!--/aliases-->
14	25
15	26		## References <!--references-->
16		−	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
17		−	\| ---------------- \| ----------------------------------------- \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| --------- \| --------- \| --------- \| --------- \| -------------------------------------------------- \| ------- \| ----------- \| -------- \|
18		−	\| discogs-sbmg-kr \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/55834 \| Discogs label 55834: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) \| 2026-09-26 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 55834 \| contact info, parent label \| CC0 \| \| \|
19		−	\| discogs-33941049 \| https://api.discogs.com/releases/33941049 \| Discogs release 33941049: Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (CD, Album, South Korea, 2005) \| 2026-09-26 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 33941049 \| identifiers, labels, companies, credits, tracklist \| CC0 \| \| \|
	27	+	\| ref \| url \| title \| accessed \| publisher \| kind \| published \| record_id \| locator \| licence \| attribution \| upstream \|
	28	+	\| ---------------- \| ------------------------------------------------------------------ \| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| ---------- \| ----------- \| --------- \| --------- \| ------------------------------------ \| -------------------------------------------------- \| ------- \| ----------- \| -------- \|
	29	+	\| mb-sbmg-kr \| https://musicbrainz.org/label/c3676baf-091c-41e8-98f9-93367f899fbf \| MusicBrainz label: Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. \| 2026-09-27 \| MusicBrainz \| catalogue \| \| c3676baf-091c-41e8-98f9-93367f899fbf \| name, life-span, label ownership, label rename \| CC0 \| \| \|
	30	+	\| discogs-252167 \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/252167 \| Discogs label 252167: Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. \| 2026-09-27 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 252167 \| profile, parent label \| CC0 \| \| \|
	31	+	\| discogs-sbmg-kr \| https://api.discogs.com/labels/55834 \| Discogs label 55834: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) \| 2026-09-27 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 55834 \| contact info, parent label \| CC0 \| \| \|
	32	+	\| discogs-33941049 \| https://api.discogs.com/releases/33941049 \| Discogs release 33941049: Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (CD, Album, South Korea, 2005) \| 2026-09-26 \| Discogs \| catalogue \| \| 33941049 \| identifiers, labels, companies, credits, tracklist \| CC0 \| \| \|
20	33		<!--/references-->
21	34
22	35		## About <!--about-->
23		−	Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) is the Korean company of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment group; Discogs files it under Sony BMG Music Entertainment as its parent label, and its contact details there are a Korean-language privacy notice with a sonybmg.com address.[^discogs-sbmg-kr] It is credited as the distributor of the South Korean CD edition of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine (2005).[^discogs-33941049]
	36	+	Sony BMG Music Entertainment Korea Inc. was the South Korean record company of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment group from 2004 to 2009, owned by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.[^mb-sbmg-kr] Discogs files it under Sony BMG Music Entertainment as its parent label, and its contact details there are a Korean-language privacy notice with a sonybmg.com address.[^discogs-sbmg-kr] It is credited as the distributor of the South Korean CD edition of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine (2005).[^discogs-33941049]
	37	+
	38	+	The company succeeded Sony Music Entertainment (Korea) Inc. and was itself succeeded in 2009 by Sony Music Entertainment Korea Inc.[^discogs-252167] MusicBrainz records that change as a rename of the same company, in step with its owner Sony BMG Music Entertainment becoming Sony Music Entertainment in the same year.[^mb-sbmg-kr]
24	39		<!--/about-->

Source of v1

# Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)
summary: South Korean record company of the Sony BMG group, credited as distributor of Sony BMG releases in Korea in the mid-2000s.
country: KR
<!--/identity-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name     | type   | locale | from | until |
| -------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| SONY BMG | search | ko     |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref              | url                                       | title                                                                                        | accessed   | publisher | kind      | published | record_id | locator                                            | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-sbmg-kr  | https://api.discogs.com/labels/55834      | Discogs label 55834: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea)                                    | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 55834     | contact info, parent label                         | CC0     |             |          |
| discogs-33941049 | https://api.discogs.com/releases/33941049 | Discogs release 33941049: Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (CD, Album, South Korea, 2005) | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 33941049  | identifiers, labels, companies, credits, tracklist | CC0     |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Korea) is the Korean company of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment group; Discogs files it under Sony BMG Music Entertainment as its parent label, and its contact details there are a Korean-language privacy notice with a sonybmg.com address.[^discogs-sbmg-kr] It is credited as the distributor of the South Korean CD edition of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine (2005).[^discogs-33941049]
<!--/about-->