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CBS Records, Inc.

US media holding company 1987-1990; subsidiary of CBS, Inc.; recorded music division of CBS
Organization business Q61782397

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
business, record company[3]
Legal form
corporation[15]
Official name
CBS Records, Inc.[14]

Status and dates

Inception
November 17, 1987[10]
End time
December 31, 1990[11]
Replaced by
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.[13]

Location

Country
United States[2]

Industry and activity

Industry
phonographic industry[9]

Relations

Child organization or unit
Columbia Records, Inc., CBS Discos, Inc.[7][8]
Parent organization or unit
Sony Corporation of America[12]
More facts +5
Different from
CBS Records[19]
Has characteristic
media company, holding company, subsidiary company[16][17][18]
Has organizational division
CBS Masterworks, CBS Special Products, Epic Records[4][5][6]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Trading name
CBS Records Group[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en CBS Records Group division en CBS Records Inc. en CBS Records, Inc. ja CBSレコード株式会社
🔖 Identifiers · 5
VIAF cluster ID
133827189
Discogs label ID
64672
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/CBS-Records-Group
IdRef ID
200667254
MusicBrainz label ID
de46c917-df55-4b7e-be7b-924a667ca93b

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🔗 Connections
Mb:label distribution 5
OKeh Records, Monument Records, Zappa Records, Scotti Bros. Records, Ode Records
Mb:label ownership 5
Legacy Recordings, Tree International Publishing, CBS Records AB, CBS Special Products, Columbia Records, Inc.
Mb:imprint 2
CBS, CBS Masterworks
← Mb:label ownership 2
Sony Corporation of America, CBS, Inc.
← Mb:producer position at 2
Bert Schouten, Bert Schouten
Mb:label rename 1
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
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Summary

CBS Records, Inc. is a business[1].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Began / founded: 1962[21]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1991-01-01[22]

  • MusicBrainz ID: de46c917-df55-4b7e-be7b-924a667ca93b[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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