Warner Music Group

American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate
Organization record_company Q21077
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 15 annual filings
Revenue
$6.71B
▲ 4.4% YoY FY2025
Net Income
$365.00M
▼ 16.1% YoY FY2025
Assets
$10.01B
▲ 1.9% YoY FY2025
$0.00$1.84B$3.69B$5.53B$7.38B FY2010: $2.99B · NI -$143.00M (-4.8% margin)FY2012: $2.78B · NI -$112.00M (-4.0% margin)FY2013: $2.87B · NI -$198.00M (-6.9% margin)FY2014: $3.03B · NI -$308.00M (-10.2% margin)FY2015: $2.97B · NI -$91.00M (-3.1% margin)FY2016: $3.25B · NI $25.00M (0.8% margin)FY2017: $3.58B · NI $143.00M (4.0% margin)FY2018: $4.00B · NI $307.00M (7.7% margin)FY2019: $4.47B · NI $256.00M (5.7% margin)FY2020: $4.46B · NI -$475.00M (-10.6% margin)FY2021: $5.30B · NI $304.00M (5.7% margin)FY2022: $5.92B · NI $551.00M (9.3% margin)FY2023: $6.04B · NI $430.00M (7.1% margin)FY2024: $6.43B · NI $435.00M (6.8% margin)FY2025: $6.71B · NI $365.00M (5.4% margin) '10'13'15'17'19'21'23'25
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2025-09-30 · accession 0001319161-25-000034

Summary

Warner Music Group is a record company[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of record company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,236 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: record label[4], public company[5]
  • Founder: Warner Bros. Entertainment[6]
  • Owned by: Access Industries[7], Tencent[8], Len Blavatnik[9]
  • Headquarters location: New York City[10], Paramount Plaza[11]
  • Chief executive officer: Stephen Cooper[12]
  • Has organizational division: Warner Music International, Inc.[13]
  • Child organization or unit: EMI Music Poland Sp. z o.o.[14], Roadrunner Records[15], Sire Records Co.[16], Atco Records[17], Fueled by Ramen[18], Warner Music Taiwan[19], Warner Music Hong Kong[20], Warner Music Latina[21], RuffNation Records[22], Elektra[23], Penalty Recordings[24], London-Sire Records[25], Rykodisc[26], Reprise Records[27]
  • Part of: major label[28]
  • Commons category: Warner Music Group[29]
  • Stock exchange: Nasdaq[30]
  • Industry: music industry[31]
  • Chairperson: Michael Lynton[32]
  • Inception: April 6, 1958[33]

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

  • Type: Holding[34]

  • Country: US[35]

  • Began / founded: 2003-11-21[36]

  • Community tags: big three[37]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 85010168-8987-4540-a058-296d426c3981[38]

Why It Matters

Warner Music Group has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . lobbyfacts.eu. lobbyfacts.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Music Business Worldwide. Retrieved . musicbusinessworldwide.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [38] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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