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Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.

US record company 1991-2004; subsidiary of Sony Corporation
Organization business Q56826443
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Summary

Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. is a business[1]. Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3], US[4]
  • Instance of: record company[5], holding company[6]
  • Headquarters location: New York City[7]
  • Has organizational division: Legacy Recordings[8], SMV Enterprises[9], Sony Music International[10], Sony Music Soundtrax[11], Sony Music Custom Marketing Group[12], Sony Wonder[13]
  • Child organization or unit: Sony Music Entertainment Polska, Sp. z o.o.[14], Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.[15], Sony Music Entertainment S.A.[16], Sony Music Entertainment (Brasil) Ind. e Com. Ltda.[17], Sony Music Entertainment (Italy) S.p.A.[18], Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) Limited[19], Columbia Records, Inc.[20], Sony Music Entertainment (Norway) AS[21], Sony Discos, Inc.[22], Sony Music Entertainment US Latin LLC[23], Sony Music Canada[24], Sony Music Entertainment (France) S.A.[25], Sony Music Entertainment (Hong Kong) Ltd.[26], Sony Music Entertainment (Greece) Α.Ε.[27]
  • Industry: phonographic industry[28]
  • Inception: January 1, 1991[29], 2004-07-01[30]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: August 5, 2004[31]
  • Parent organization or unit: Sony Corporation of America[32]
  • Replaces: CBS Records, Inc.[33]
  • Replaced by: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc.[34]
  • Official name: Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.[35]
  • Legal form: corporation[36], QF4W[37]
  • Different from: Sony Music Entertainment[38]
  • Has list: list of Sony Music labels[39]

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[40]

  • Registered legal name: Sony Music Entertainment[41]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[42]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[43]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): QF4W[44]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[45]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[46]

  • Entity created: 2004-07-01[47]

  • LEI first registered: 2021-07-13[48]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-05-07[49]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-05-22[50]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[51]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[52]

  • Authority entity ID: 3824209[53]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[54]

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Holding[55]

  • Began / founded: 1991-01-01[56]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2004-08-05[57]

  • Community tags: clean up[58]

  • MusicBrainz ID: bf519cd2-4e1e-46bf-948b-615f75424606[59]

Related Entities

Epic Records Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc.

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Discogs. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Discogs. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [43] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [44] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [45] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [46] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [47] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [48] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [49] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [50] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [51] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [52] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [53] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [54] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [55] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  17. [56] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  18. [57] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  19. [58] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  20. [59] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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  1. 13w ago · BorkedBot bot · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +2004-08-05T00:00:00Z
    National library of israel j9u id → 987007320298905171
    Legal form → corporation, QF4W
    Industry → phonographic industry
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