Sony Music Entertainment
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Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by Sony Corporation.
In 1988 Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records for $2 Billion and renamed the label to Sony Music Entertainment in 1991. CBS retained the rights to the name and the logo.
Sony introduced the Columbia label after it bought the international rights of the label from EMI. Epic Records is the other pop branch of Sony Records.
In August 2004, Sony Music Entertainment created a joint-venture with BMG to form Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
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