Umgd

About Umgd

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest music company in the world and is comprised of two core businesses: the recorded music business and the music publishing business.
The recorded music business discovers, develops, markets and distributes recorded music through a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and licensees in 77 countries, representing 98% of the music market. UMG also sells and distributes music video and DVD products, and licenses recordings, encouraging the legal distribution of music over the Internet and over cellular, cable and satellite networks. UMG's publishing company, Universal Music Publishing Group, is the world's leading publishing business; it owns and acquires rights to musical compositions and licenses them for use in recordings and related uses, such as films and advertisements. UMG also includes Bravado, its merchandising company, and Twenty-First Artists, its full service management division.

Universal Music Group International is the division that manages UMG's businesses in countries outside of North America.
Record Labels

UMG’s strength and legacy of music flows from a diverse family of record labels which include: Barclay, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, ECM, Emarcy, Fonovisa, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Geffen Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Machete Music, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Motown Republic Group, Universal Music Latino, Universal Music Group Nashville (which includes Lost Highway, MCA Nashville and Mercury Nashville), Universal Records South, and Verve Music Group.

Website: new.umusic.com/flash.aspx