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Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc., is one of the so called "Big Four" record companies, along with EMI, Warner Music Group, and Atlantic Music Groups. Sony BMG, who holds a 25% share of the music market, was born out of the merger of two music industry giants, Sony Music and BMG Music.


In it's early years, Universal Records was a relatively unimportant extension of the Universal Pictures Group, one of the most successful movie studios in Hollywood. Universal Records was the label on which Universal Pictures would release soundtracks from their films. Throughout the years, however, Universal Records became an interest in its own right and grew and evolved until it became the mega label it is today.


EMI got its start in 1931 as a manufacturer of gramaphone record players under the name The UK Gramaphone Company. While EMI had much success in the record player market, it is as a record label that the company really exploded.


Much like fellow Big Four major record label Universal Music Group before them, Warner Music Group got its start as a branch of a movie studio. Warner Bros movie studio started the label in 1958 as a means for releasing soundtracks attached to their motion pictures. The timing for starting a label was great, thanks to increasing popularity of rock'n'roll music and pop music radio, and it didn't take long for the Warner record label to become a going concern in its own right.

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