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19 unusual facts about Sony Music Entertainment


Avalon: Web of Magic

The musical band Be*Tween's first single "Supernatural High" was released by Sony Music Entertainment in a cooperative marketing program with the Avalon books.

BMG Music Canada

In 2004, the label merged with Sony Music Canada to create Sony BMG Music Canada Inc..

Bossnapping

In early March, 2009, workers in southwestern France held the Chief Executive Officer and Human Resources Director of Sony France overnight, demanding a better severance package for workers who had been laid off.

CBS Records

Sony Music Entertainment, formerly known as CBS Records, Inc., a global record company

Columbia House

In 1991, CBS Records was renamed Sony Music Entertainment and Sony sold half of Columbia House to Time Warner and merged in Time-Life's video and music clubs.

Cynda Williams

With the success of the single, Williams had been lined up with Sony to produce her own album.

D.Gray-man

All of the music for the D.Gray-man anime series were composed by Kaoru Wada, and so far three CD soundtracks have been released in Japan by Sony Music Entertainment.

Dot-com company

Pioneered the digital distribution deal as one of first companies to sign agreements with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Bertelsmann Music Group and Warner Music Group.

Georgina Fleur

Also in January 2013, she released a single titled Je Suis Comme Je Suis (I Am What I Am in French) on Ariola Records (a German subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment), which was only available as digital download and reached #73 on the German iTunes chart.

Herman Heinsbroek

After a brief time there, he left to become the company lawyer of CBS Music and eventually became the company's vice president in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Ken Murphy

After his retirement from playing, Murphy worked in both the American Broadcasting Company and CBS Records accounting sections.

Marcelo Crivella

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

Marshall Cogan

Swid would go on to acquire the music publishing division of CBS Records, later known as SBK Records.

Nikki Ponte

While still participating in the show, she signed with Sony Music Entertainment Greece and was one of six candidates who were selected to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.

While still in the competition, she caught the attention of Greece's Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) and was sequentially approached and signed by Sony Music Entertainment Greece.

Olga Scheps

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

Sing You

Sing You is the fourth mini-album from Japanese singer Emi Tawata but the first under the label Sony Music Entertainment.

Sylencer

2012 also saw the addition of drummer Kevin Talley as a permanent member of the band, as well as the founding of the band's label, Sylencer Records, Inc., which is handling the album's release in tandem with dPulse Recordings, and Sony Music Entertainment Germany.

Timothy James Webb

Some of his works belong to the collections of Sony/CBS in Melbourne, of the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum, of the Melbourne Theatre Company, of the Melbourne City Council, of Arnon Milchan and of the collections of other notable families in Australia, in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Ireland, Sweden and in Germany.


1st Concert Oh Yeah! 1999

It was recorded in May 1999 but it wasn't released until September 2005 with the release of the box set Bazooka 17 under Sony Music Entertainment.

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.

Bach Technology

Investors include the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Sony Music Entertainment, Shigeo Maruyama, and MP3's inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg.

Two of its key investors are former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Sony Music Entertainment, Shigeo Maruyama, and MP3's inventor, Karlheinz Brandenburg.

Bloom.fm

As of September 2013, approximately 22 million tracks were available on the service, including content from EMI, Sony, Universal, and Merlin (representing over 120,000 independent labels) and various independent labels through aggregators such as TuneCore, IODA, The Orchard, PIAS, AWAL, Ditto, and CD Baby.

Carry You

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

Daikoku Danji Japan First Live 2012

It was released on June 6, 2012 on their Japanese label Sony Music Entertainment.

Esoteric Recordings

The label’s founder is Mark Powell, who has been a freelance music consultant for major labels such as Universal, Sony and EMI since 2000, working with artists including Soft Machine, Caravan, Camel, Man and Hawkwind, as well as producing label retrospectives covering Deram, Decca, Vertigo, Harvest and United Artists.

Fredric Dannen

He is best known for his landmark book Hit Men: Powerbrokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (1990), which investigated the behind-the-scenes dealings of the major American record labels in the 1970s and 1980s, focussing on the careers of leading CBS Records executives Walter Yetnikoff and Dick Asher.

Ghostwriter

Theodore Feldman is an example of a true "'ghost' (ghostwriter). He participates in both "anonymously" writing and engineering for The Island Def Jam Motown Music Group, Atlantic Records, EMI/Capitol Records and Sony Music Entertainment.

IBEAM Broadcasting Corporation

At that time, iBEAM's customer list included more than 460 companies, including media and entertainment leaders Disney, Paramount Pictures, MTVi, Sony Music Entertainment, IBM/Lotus, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merrill Lynch and LAUNCH.com.

Incubus HQ Live

Incubus HQ Live was a participatory media exhibit and real-time documentary by American rock band Incubus in collaboration with Sony Music Entertainment and producer/director Marc Scarpa.

Jacob Sunday

Airplay from one of the top college radio stations in the nation and promotion from 2 Hot 2 Heavy Productions, which has produced tracks with artist from labels including Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, helped Sunday's career immensely.

Jason Benoit

His first single, "This Is What It Feels Like", was released on September 10, 2013 by Sky Hit Records, a label under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.

Laura Mvula

After several showcases, Laura Mvula was signed by Colin Barlow to Sony subsidiary RCA.

Masterworks Broadway

Masterworks Broadway is a record label created by the consolidation of Sony Music Entertainment's Broadway theatre music divisions, Columbia Broadway Masterworks and RCA Victor Records' Broadway series.

Michael Jochum

Michael Jochum started as a musician in the early 1980s playing alongside Richard Gibbs in the band Zuma II, which had an eponymously titled record released by Pasha/CBS Records.

Oleksiy Kuznetsov

He won two million Ukrainian hryvnias in cash prizes, as well as a musical contract with Sony Music Russia, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.

The Label: The Story of Columbia Records

In 1988 CBS Records, including the Columbia Records unit, was acquired by Sony, who re-christened the parent division Sony Music Entertainment in 1991.

The Sugar Mix Album

The Sugar Mix Album is the second remix album by Spanish duo Azúcar Moreno, released on CBS-Epic in late 1990.

Vincenzo Zitello

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