Sony BMG Music Entertainment: version 1

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# Sony BMG Music Entertainment <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony BMG Music Entertainment
disambiguation: Sony–Bertelsmann record company, 2004–2008
country: US
founded: 2004-08
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                           | market | from       | until | ended | status  | source        | note                                                                                                                                       |
| ---------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| renamed_to | company/sony-music-entertainment |        | 2009-01-01 |       |       | sourced | ^discogs-sbmg | Sony bought Bertelsmann's 50% stake in August 2008 (^wiki-sbmg); the company took back the name Sony Music Entertainment on 1 January 2009 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name     | type | locale | from | until |
| -------- | ---- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Sony BMG | name |        |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                    | title                                             | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator               | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | --------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-sbmg | https://api.discogs.com/labels/53569   | Discogs label 53569: Sony BMG Music Entertainment | 2026-09-13 | Discogs   | catalogue   |           | 53569     | profile, contact info |              |             |          |
| wiki-sbmg    | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG | Wikipedia: Sony BMG                               | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           | lead, history         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was an American record company owned as a 50–50 joint venture of Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann, formed by the merger of Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann Music Group completed in August 2004. It was one of the Big Four music companies, and its labels included Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, RCA and Legacy Recordings.[^wiki-sbmg] After Sony bought Bertelsmann's half in 2008, the company took back the name Sony Music Entertainment on 1 January 2009; its address was 550 Madison Avenue, New York.[^discogs-sbmg]
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