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unusual facts about Sony Music



2010 TVB monopoly case

TVB then banned singers from EMI Group, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music Group from participating on the 2009 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation show.

Andrew Ridgeley

CBS Records (later Sony Music), having taken up the option on Wham!'s contract that specified solo albums from Michael and Ridgeley, released a guitar and drum driven solo recording from Ridgeley, Son of Albert, in 1990.

Busco un Pueblo

Busco Un Pueblo (English: I am Searching for A City) is the thirteenth studio album by Puerto Rican-American salsa singer-songwriter Víctor Manuelle released on November 21, 2011 on Sony Music.

Cappriccieo Scates

Capp began his music business career doing independent promotions for Sony Music, Death Row Records, Tommy Boy Records, Universal Music Group, and Atlantic Records, promoting the careers of artists such as: Alicia Keys, Boyz II Men, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and etcetera.

Carry You

During a performance in Cardiff on 15 December 2012, Union J announced that they had signed a recording contract with Sony Music.

Chresten

After he won, he was signed to Sony Music and his debut single "Let Go" charted in the Danish Singles Chart, reaching number 8.

Christos Dantis

After a two-year break, Dantis returned in May 2003 by signing with Sony Music Greece and with the album Ena Tragoudi Akoma composed entirely by Giorgos Theofanous.

Don't Need to Say Good Bye

"Don't Need to Say Good Bye" is a song by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki, released as her tenth single under Sony Music.

Feijão com Arroz

Feijão com arroz (Portuguese for Rice and beans) is the fourth album by Daniela Mercury, released in 1996 in Brazil and on January 14, 1997 in North America and Europe through Sony Music.

Glide with Me

Glided with Me is an album by Australian R&B and dance group CDB released in 1995 on Sony Music and their debut album.

Jump and Jive with Hi-5

Jump and Jive with Hi-5 is first CD by Hi-5, released in 1999 by Sony Music, the songs are from Season 1.

Lucy Rose

Later in 2013, Sony Mobile chose Lucy Rose to perform the soundtrack of the official TV advertisement of Sony's Flagship mobile phone Sony Xperia Z1, the Song Movin' on up was composed and arranged by Gillespie/Young/Innes, by Courtesy of Columbia Records/Sony Music.

Marcelo Crivella

The albums were recorded by Line Records, where Crivella was considered the principal artist, and by Sony Music.

Mi-Sex

They were soon signed to the Australian division of CBS Records by the label's then A&R manager/House producer Peter Dawkins, himself an expatriate New Zealander who is best known for his productions with another former NZ group based in Australia, Dragon.

Nappy Roots

In 2004 they were also featured on three songs for the movie soundtrack to The Ladykillers starring Tom Hanks that was released on Sony Music.

Olga Scheps

Shortly after that Olga Scheps signed her first exklusiv recording contract with RCA Red Seal (Sony Music).

Phillips Recording

This Memphis studio was originally a division of a larger corporation, Sam Phillips Recording Service, Inc., which also briefly included under its umbrella a Nashville studio, where famed CBS Records producer Billy Sherrill got his start, and a studio in Tupelo, Mississippi for demos.

Rawkus Records

In 2006, Rawkus signed with RED, a Sony Music distribution company and reemerged with a new line up of notable independent Hip Hop artists including The Procussions, Panacea, Mr. J. Medeiros and Kidz in the Hall, among others.

Reality/Dancin' in Hip-Hop

"Reality"/"Dancin' in Hip-Hop" is a song by Ami Suzuki, released as her twelfth and final single under the Sony Music Japan label.

Rita M. Johnson

She launched her early career at Mute Records—home of Depeche Mode, worked with a division of Sony Music, and was U.S. Label Manager for the Belgian record label Crammed Discs.

S2 Records

S2 Records, formerly named Sony Soho2 after its location at London's Soho Square, is a record label subsidiary of Sony Music.

Tacata'

Tacata' (alternative writings Tacatà and Tacatá) is an international hit by Italian group Tacabro with Cuban artist Martínez Rodríguez as main vocalist for the release on 541 / N.E.W.S. labels in Italy, France and Sweden and with Sony Music in Denmark.

Tank Palamara

In addition to his guitar-playing, his production and songwriting are featured on the album Il Parco Dei Sogni by Francesca Chiara, released by Sony Music in 1999.

Venus Brown

In 2010, he collaborated with Jason Herbert to create a Brazilian boyband P9 who released their debut album in July 2013 by Sony Music.

Vincenzo Zitello

In 1988 he begins recording his second album, “KERIGMA”, published by Sony Music and presented at the “Premio Tenco” in Sanremo.

Vision Quest Records

The company works with File records (Sony Music), HMV, Tower Records, Virgin Music, Cisco, Quintrix, Acoustic (Sound Company) Egg House (Lights) M.M.Delight (VJ’s) Inter FM (Radio) Space Shower TV (Television) and advertises regularly in trade magazines like Floor, Loud and Club Juice.


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Cameron Cartio

Being signed to Sony Music, he released his debut album Borderless in 2005.

Carolina Wallin Pérez

Pérez became known through her music site on Myspace and was signed to Family Tree Music (a label distributed by Sony Music).

Cesar Camargo Mariano

From his second and current marriage of 30 years with Flavia Rodrigues Alves he had a daughter, Luisa Mariano Imbert (1986), also a singer and graduate from Berklee College of Music, who has worked at Sony Music and currently works for Venus Brown at Buddah Brown Entertainment.

Christy Gibson

During her time with Sony Music Thailand, Gibson also recorded an album jointly with Swedish luk tung singer Jonas Anderson, called Rum-tone, Rum-thai.

Columbia/Epic Label Group

The Columbia/Epic configuration began as the "Sony Music Label Group" during the last Sony BMG merger, and was restructured in 2009 to form a larger umbrella for Columbia Records and Epic Records (as well as their various affiliated labels) to continue to operate.

Cómo Nace el Universo

El Domador (The trainer) and Tu Eres Un Santo (You're a saint) did not achieve the expected success due to the merger of BMG with Sony Music Entertainment, in which promotion was affected.

Dada Entertainment

Its assets include Dada’s mobile club, Dada.net, Upoc (mobile community) and Sony Music Box (BREW application live on Verizon Wireless, Alltel and U.S. Cellular).

Dance Pool

In the late 90's it was merged with the Sony Music subsidiaries Epidrome and Adrenalin in 1999 to form the label Dance Division.

David L. Cremin

He then founded Vis-a-Vis Entertainment, Inc. representing and recording a number of artists including Michael Wolff (The Arsenio Hall Show, Sony Music), Downset (Mercury/Polygram Records) and For Love Not Lisa (EastWest Records).

En Primera Fila

After selling 12 million copies of his albums and composing for various artists, including Ricky Martin and Chayanne, Franco De Vita recorded En Primera Fila as a part of the concert series promoted by the label Sony Music entitled Primera Fila, which has a concept of record live performances by Latin American performers before a small audience in an intimate setting, resemblant to MTV Unplugged.

Evan Chandler

Chandler requested $60 million from Sony music so that he could record his own rebuttal album entitled EVANstory.

Habibi I Love You

It was released on Sony Music with the single appearing at number 10 in its first week of release on the official Dutch Single Top 100 charts, and climbed to number 5 (peak position).

Hey, Soul Sister

BNA Records, a country music label owned by Sony Music, released the song to the country music format in June 2010.

Jerry Greenberg

Jerry L. Greenberg, President of Mirage Music Entertainment and former President of Atlantic Records, ATCO, UA/MGM, WTG, MJJ/Sony Music

Katteni-Shiyagare

They also performed a cover of Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" with fellow Sony Music Japan artist Mika Nakashima, which was released on the Katteni-Shiyagare tribute album and also included with her single Eien no Uta.

Liu Yifei

Her song "Mayonaka no Doa" as recorded by Sony Music appeared on television as one of the ending themes to Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z.

Love the Island

"Love the Island" is the debut single of Japanese singer Ami Suzuki released on July 1, 1998 through True Kiss Disc, sub-label of Sony Music Entertainment Japan owned by Tetsuya Komuro.

MJJ

MJJ Music, American record label that was owned by Sony Music Entertainment and founded by Michael Jackson

Ooh Yeah!

In 2009, Sony Music Custom Marketing Group released a triple pack of Hall & Oates albums.

Oswaldo Romano Junior

Segurar.com has now Jose Augusto Correa (Crival/FGV) and Rodrigo Veloso (onedrinks.com) as co-founders, and Aber Whitcomb (MySpace), Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent,Flingo), Paul Bragiel (I/O Ventures), Tommy Mottola (Sony Music), Michael Farello and Scott Dahnke (Catterton Partners) on the advisory board.

Scott Lochmus

Previously, Mr. Lochmus served as Senior Director at Sony Music Studios, in charge of production, where he directed and produced award-winning videos of every soundtrack recorded by Celine Dion from 1996 to 2008, including her landmark duet with Barbra Streisand, as well as Dion’s “One Year, One Heart” ABC Family TV Special, and two widely acclaimed documentaries, “Let's Talk About Love,” and “Taking Chances,” among others.

Sieff

Adam Sieff, Communications Director at Dune Music, and a former Sony Music Director of Jazz

Sony Music Studios

Other programs recorded or aired live from the Sony Music Studios included MTV Unplugged, Sessions at West 54th, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and VH1’s Hard Rock Live.

Sony Music Studios also hosted America: A Tribute to Heroes, a live telethon held 10 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Taiyo Yuden

Rebranded Taiyo Yuden media can be found under Fujifilm, Fusion, Maxell (Maxell Music CD-R, Maxell CD-R Pro, and Maxell CD-R Music Pro (discontinued)), Miflop, Panasonic, Plextor, Sony (Sony Music CD-R (discontinued 2008)), TDK, and Verbatim Corporation brands.

Than E

The enterprising manager contacted Tommy Thaung Tin to ask if Than E would sing for Columbia Records (now owned by the Sony Music Entertainment) the kind of song like "Mya Pan Gway."

You Are the Best Thing

"You Are the Best Thing" is the lead single of the album Gossip in the Grain by American folk singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne released on August 26, 2008 by Stone Dwarf Music, LLC, under license to RCA/JIVE Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment.