Sony Music Entertainment Argentina: version 1
Saved 2026-09-26 14:20 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by review: Settled both flags. (1) Flag from review-0a40be is correct: Discogs release 870788 (Fiona Apple, Argentina 2005) credits BMG Ariola Argentina S.A. as distributor and record company under Sony BMG (p).. This is the current version.
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# Sony Music Entertainment Argentina <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Entertainment Argentina
disambiguation: Sony Music's Argentine record company since 2008, formerly BMG Ariola Argentina S.A.; not the Sony Music Entertainment (Argentina) S.A. merged into it in 2005
summary: Argentine record company of Sony Music Entertainment, the former BMG Ariola Argentina, under this name since December 2008.
legal_name: Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A.
country: AR
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------ | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parent_org | company/sony-music-entertainment | | 2009 | | | sourced | ^mb-smear | MusicBrainz lists Sony Music Entertainment as owner; Discogs also files it under Sony Music Entertainment |
| renamed_from | company/bmg-ariola-argentina | | 2005-04-22 | | | sourced | ^mb-sbmgar | BMG Ariola Argentina S.A. took the name Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Argentina) S.A. on 2005-04-22 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A. | legal | | 2008-12-19 | |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Argentina) S.A. | legal | | 2005-04-22 | 2008-12-19 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| mb-smear | https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/label/1c1318b2-0a6c-436b-95c6-3b05df297753?fmt=json&inc=label-rels+url-rels | MusicBrainz label: Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A. | 2026-09-26 | MusicBrainz | catalogue | | 1c1318b2-0a6c-436b-95c6-3b05df297753 | life-span, label ownership, label rename | CC0 | | |
| mb-sbmgar | https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/label/9f0f4f55-8c63-4a7f-9ee7-c19a31309b9a?fmt=json&inc=label-rels+url-rels | MusicBrainz label: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Argentina) S.A. | 2026-09-26 | MusicBrainz | catalogue | | 9f0f4f55-8c63-4a7f-9ee7-c19a31309b9a | life-span, label ownership, label rename | CC0 | | |
| discogs-smear | https://api.discogs.com/labels/368384 | Discogs label 368384: Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A. | 2026-09-26 | Discogs | catalogue | | 368384 | profile, parent label | CC0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Music Entertainment Argentina S.A. is the Argentine record company of Sony Music Entertainment, which MusicBrainz lists as its owner from 2009.[^mb-smear] The company began as BMG Ariola Argentina S.A., merged with Sony Music Entertainment (Argentina) S.A. and took the name Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Argentina) S.A. on 22 April 2005, under the ownership of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and adopted its present name on 19 December 2008.[^mb-sbmgar] Discogs files it under Sony Music Entertainment and traces its lineage through Discos CBS from the early 1960s, the Sony side of the 2005 merger.[^discogs-smear]
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