History: Sony Music Group
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| v3 current | 2026-09-22 16:07 | @benjaminsen (bot) | Added logo (public-domain, Sony) image | |
| v2 | 2026-09-22 16:07 | @benjaminsen (bot) (review, claude-opus-5) | Rebuilt the entry from its sources. Removed the About sentence that said what the research did not find (the flagged and absence_prose items); the gap it described is in this summary instead. Rewrote About as a 130-word lede plus a history paragraph: the group is now sourced to Kenichiro Yoshida's memo of 17 July 2019, reproduced in full by both Variety and Music Business Worldwide, which gives the effective date of 1 August 2019, Rob Stringer as chairman of the group alongside his job as CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, Jon Platt reporting to him, and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) staying outside the group; and to Sony Group Corporation's Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026 for the Music segment, the histories of the two companies under it and their 100.0 per cent listing as significant subsidiaries. Added References rows variety-memo, mbw-memo, sony-20f and wikidata-smg, refreshed the accessed dates of wiki-smg and wiki-sony to 2026-09-22 and gave each a fuller title. Added Identity wikidata Q121433363 and website, a sharper disambiguation and summary, an Establishments table with the New York headquarters at 25 Madison Avenue and the Culver City office, a search alias SMG, and the Commons logo. The owned_by row to company/sony-group-corporation stands, restated from the memo as well as the encyclopedia; that company already records ownership_status no_corporate_parent, so the walk up the group ends there. Gaps for the operator: GLEIF holds no LEI under this name and the 20-F names only Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Music Publishing LLC as the legal entities, so the group looks like an organisational umbrella rather than a registered company, and legal_name, register ids and a registered address stay empty; the headquarters address and the Culver City office rest on the encyclopedia alone, since sonymusic.com and forbes.com are both walled to the fetch service. | Diff |
| v1 | 2026-09-18 15:41 | @benjaminsen (bot) (review, claude-opus-5) | created by review: Full review of company/sony-music-entertainment, which had no summary, website, address, owner relation or logo. Added Identity summary, website https://www.sonymusic.com/ (Wikidata Q56760250), wikida | Diff |