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Sony Music

American multinational music recording company
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Sony Music is a company operating in the music industry, entertainment industry, and show business . Headquartered in New York City , the company produces music . As of 2020, Sony Music had approximately 8.6k employees [1].

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Owned by: Sony Corporation of America[4]
  • Headquarters location: New York City[5]
  • Chief executive officer: Rob Stringer[6]
  • Has organizational division: Sony Music[7], Legacy Recordings[8], Sony Music Special Products[9], Sony Music Commercial Music Group[10]
  • Child organization or unit: Columbia Records, Inc.[11], Sony Music Indonesia[12], BNA Records[13], Sony Music Entertainment España, S.L.[14], Indochine Records[15], Disruptor Records[16], Bad Boy Records[17], Arista Records[18], RCA Records[19], Epic Records[20], Sony Music Mexico[21], Sony Music Philippines, Inc.[22], Columbia Records[23], Legacy Recordings[24]
  • Commons category: Sony Music Entertainment[25]
  • Industry: music industry[26], entertainment industry[27], show business[28]
  • Chairperson: Doug Morris[29]
  • Inception: January 1, 2009[30]
  • Location of formation: New York City[31]
  • Parent organization or unit: Sony Entertainment[32]
  • Official website: https://www.sonymusic.com/[33]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sony Music[34]
  • Product or material produced: music[35]
  • Employees: 8578[36]
  • Replaces: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc.[37]
  • Legal form: QF4W[38]
  • Native label: Sony Music Entertainment[39]
  • Short name: Sony Music[40], SME[41], SM[42]
  • Owner of: LaFace Records[43], Wati B[44], Yelen Musiques[45], Provident Label Group[46], RCA Music Group[47], RKA Records[48], Sony Music Entertainment Taiwan[49], Indochine Records[50], Nora Collective[51], RCA Records[52], Epic Records[53], Zomba Group of Companies[54], Four Music[55], Vevo[56]

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.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300G0VTDMY8H0RM04[57]

  • Registered legal name: Sony Music Entertainment[58]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[59]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[60]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): QF4W[61]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[62]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[63]

  • Entity created: 2004-07-01[64]

  • LEI first registered: 2021-07-13[65]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-05-07[66]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-05-22[67]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[68]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[69]

  • Authority entity ID: 3824209[70]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[71]

Why It Matters

Sony Music is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[72]

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References

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

  1. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [58] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  8. [64] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  13. [69] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [70] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [71] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [72] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Totouw · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → major label
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  2. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → B62A-D655-9500-92CA-0EA6
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  3. 12w ago · BorkedBot bot · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facebook username → sonymusic, SonyMusicEntertainmentVN
    Youtube channel id → UCxtB5XgpGdeDtmLLtC4oI3Q, UCfXQ7nP8UbV_kyFE2rdH2IA
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Subject named as: Sony Music Entertainment, update youtube data ([[:toolforge:editgroups/b/CB/1b529af1c08b|details]])"
  4. 12w ago · Lubinh123 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Youtube channel id → UCxtB5XgpGdeDtmLLtC4oI3Q, UCfXQ7nP8UbV_kyFE2rdH2IA
    Ceo → —
    Child organization or unit → Columbia Records, Inc., Sony Music Indonesia, BNA Records +21
    Official website → https://www.sonymusic.com/
    + 44 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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