Sony Music Group: version 1
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| 1 | 1 | # Sony Music Group <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Sony Music Group | |
| 5 | − | disambiguation: Sony's music holding company outside Japan, formed 2019 | |
| 6 | − | summary: American music company formed on 1 August 2019 that holds Sony's music business outside Japan through Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Music Publishing. | |
| 5 | + | disambiguation: The group over Sony's music business outside Japan, formed 2019; not the record company Sony Music Entertainment, which sits inside it | |
| 6 | + | summary: Sony's music arm outside Japan, formed on 1 August 2019 to run the record company Sony Music Entertainment and the publisher Sony Music Publishing from New York. | |
| 7 | + | wikidata: Q121433363 | |
| 7 | 8 | country: US | |
| 9 | + | website: https://www.sonymusic.com/ | |
| 8 | 10 | founded: 2019-08-01 | |
| 9 | 11 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 10 | 12 | ||
| 11 | 13 | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 12 | − | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 13 | − | | -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 14 | − | | owned_by | company/sony-group-corporation | | 2019-08-01 | | | sourced | ^wiki-smg | Described as a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation | | |
| 14 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 15 | + | | -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 16 | + | | owned_by | company/sony-group-corporation | | 2019-08-01 | | | sourced | ^wiki-smg | Described as a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation; the group was created by Sony's president and chief executive and reports into Sony in Tokyo | | |
| 15 | 17 | <!--/relations--> | |
| 16 | 18 | ||
| 19 | + | ## Establishments <!--establishments--> | |
| 20 | + | | mark | kind | address | country | source | note | | |
| 21 | + | | ---- | ------ | --------------------------------------- | ------- | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 22 | + | | | office | 25 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, U.S.A. | US | ^wiki-smg | Headquarters, in the Metropolitan Life North Building; the same building houses Sony Music Entertainment | | |
| 23 | + | | | office | Culver City, California, U.S.A. | US | ^wiki-smg | Second office, named alongside the New York headquarters | | |
| 24 | + | <!--/establishments--> | |
| 25 | + | ||
| 26 | + | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 27 | + | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 28 | + | | ---- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 29 | + | | SMG | search | | 2019 | | | |
| 30 | + | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 31 | + | ||
| 32 | + | ## Images <!--images--> | |
| 33 | + | | asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled | | |
| 34 | + | | ----------------- | ---- | ----------------- | ------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ---- | ------------------ | ----------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- | | |
| 35 | + | | logo-b05862f6.png | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | Sony | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASony_Music_Group_logo_2023.svg | 2026-09-22 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 36 | + | <!--/images--> | |
| 37 | + | ||
| 17 | 38 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 18 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 19 | − | | --------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 20 | − | | wiki-smg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music_Group | Wikipedia: Sony Music Group | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 21 | − | | wiki-sony | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music | Wikipedia: Sony Music | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 39 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 40 | + | | ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 41 | + | | wiki-smg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music_Group | Wikipedia: Sony Music Group (headquarters, Culver City office, parent, chairman, website) | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 42 | + | | wiki-sony | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music | Wikipedia: Sony Music | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | | | |
| 43 | + | | variety-memo | https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/sony-unites-recorded-music-and-publishing-under-one-company-1203269951/ | Variety: Sony Unites Recorded Music and Publishing Under One Company, with the full text of Kenichiro Yoshida's memo of 17 July 2019 | 2026-09-22 | Variety | publication | 2019-07-17 | | | | | | | |
| 44 | + | | mbw-memo | https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/rob-stringer-to-run-new-sony-music-group-housing-publishing-and-records-from-august-1/ | Music Business Worldwide: Rob Stringer to run new Sony Music Group, housing publishing and records, from August 1, with the same memo in full | 2026-09-22 | Music Business Worldwide | publication | 2019-07-17 | | | | | | | |
| 45 | + | | sony-20f | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313838/000119312526274893/d28719d20f.htm | Sony Group Corporation, Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026: Music segment, business overview and significant subsidiaries | 2026-09-22 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2026-06-18 | 0001193125-26-274893 | | | | | | |
| 46 | + | | wikidata-smg | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121433363 | Wikidata item Q121433363: Sony Music Group (organisation, music industry, logo) | 2026-09-22 | Wikidata | catalogue | | Q121433363 | | | | | | |
| 22 | 47 | <!--/references--> | |
| 23 | 48 | ||
| 24 | 49 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 25 | − | Sony Music Group (SMG) is the American music company of the Sony group. It was announced on 17 July 2019 and established on 1 August 2019, when Sony put the record company Sony Music Entertainment and the publisher Sony/ATV, since renamed Sony Music Publishing, under one head.[^wiki-sony] It controls Sony's entire music business outside Japan through those two American subsidiaries, is a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, and has its headquarters in New York City with an office in Culver City, California.[^wiki-smg] No register entry, filing or site of its own was found for the company itself, so its legal name, registration number and registered address are not recorded here. | |
| 50 | + | Sony Music Group (SMG) is the part of the Sony group that runs its music business outside Japan, holding the record company Sony Music Entertainment and the publisher Sony Music Publishing, then still called Sony/ATV, under one chairman.[^wiki-smg][^variety-memo] Sony's president and chief executive Kenichiro Yoshida told staff on 17 July 2019 that the two businesses would come together as a new Sony Music Group effective 1 August, with Rob Stringer, chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment, taking the chair of the group in addition to that job, and Sony/ATV's chairman Jon Platt reporting to him.[^variety-memo][^mbw-memo] It is a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, has its headquarters at 25 Madison Avenue in New York City and an office in Culver City, California, and is counted among the "Big Three" music companies.[^wiki-smg] | |
| 51 | + | ||
| 52 | + | The two companies under it keep their own histories. Sony Music Entertainment is the record company Sony has owned since it bought CBS Records Inc. in January 1988; Sony Music Publishing was Sony/ATV Music Publishing, a 50-50 joint venture of 1995 between Sony and Michael Jackson that became wholly owned in September 2016, and it took its present name in January 2021, by which time it also held EMI Music Publishing, whose remaining equity Sony bought in November 2018.[^sony-20f][^wiki-sony] Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. was kept outside the new group and continues to report to Sony's chief executive in Tokyo, which is why the group's remit stops at Japan; Yoshida's memo asked the two sides to go on working together "in the spirit of One Sony".[^variety-memo][^mbw-memo] Sony Group Corporation's Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026 describes a Music segment covering Recorded Music, Music Publishing and Visual Media & Platform, reports it through Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and their Japanese counterpart, and lists Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Music Publishing LLC separately in its table of significant subsidiaries, each owned directly or indirectly at 100.0 per cent in the U.S.A.; it names Sony Music Group itself in the business narrative, for the partnership with GIC Private Limited that followed the Pink Floyd and Queen catalogue deals.[^sony-20f] The encyclopedia gives sonymusic.com, the site of Sony Music Entertainment, as the group's website, and Wikidata carries it as Q121433363.[^wiki-smg][^wikidata-smg] | |
| 26 | 53 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Sony Music Group <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Group
disambiguation: Sony's music holding company outside Japan, formed 2019
summary: American music company formed on 1 August 2019 that holds Sony's music business outside Japan through Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Music Publishing.
country: US
founded: 2019-08-01
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sony-group-corporation | | 2019-08-01 | | | sourced | ^wiki-smg | Described as a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation |
<!--/relations-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-smg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music_Group | Wikipedia: Sony Music Group | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | |
| wiki-sony | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music | Wikipedia: Sony Music | 2026-09-18 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Sony Music Group (SMG) is the American music company of the Sony group. It was announced on 17 July 2019 and established on 1 August 2019, when Sony put the record company Sony Music Entertainment and the publisher Sony/ATV, since renamed Sony Music Publishing, under one head.[^wiki-sony] It controls Sony's entire music business outside Japan through those two American subsidiaries, is a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, and has its headquarters in New York City with an office in Culver City, California.[^wiki-smg] No register entry, filing or site of its own was found for the company itself, so its legal name, registration number and registered address are not recorded here.
<!--/about-->