2. Facts .
• U niversal is the largest of the ‘big four’ record com panies..
• They sell m usic, television, film , publishing,
telecom m unications, the internet and vid eo gam es, world wid e.
This m eans that any m usic prod uced by U niversal can be
easily publicised using all of these m ed ium s.
• They are responsible for 30% of m usic sales.
• In 201 0 they had a revenue of $5.87 billion.
• 2007 saw U niversal m erge with BM G.
• U niversal is progressively growing larger as they buy part of
or all of other businesses. (subsid iaries)
3. Subsidiary labels.
• These are a few record labels that m ake up
U niversal –
• EC M
• Island D ef Jam M usic Group
• M ercury Record s
• Polyd or Record s
• Verve M usic Group.
4. A rtists.
• Akon
• Justin Bieber
• The Black Eyed Peas
• M ariah C arey
• Em inem
• Jessie J
• Enrique Inglesias
• Rolling Stones
• D uffy
• C heryl C ole
• M ika
• Taylor Swift
• Selena Gom ez
5. A re they ‘ vertically integrated’ ?
• Yes, they sign the artist to their record ing
com pany. They then prod uce their m usic and
d istribute it using m any d ifferent m ed ium s.
The one that they own is ‘Vevo’ which is an
online prem ium m usic and entertainm ent
service. You can find it through Youtube and
also their website - http:/ www.vevo.com /
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6.
7. Facts.
• EM I traces its history back to the very beginnings of
record ed sound and m usic as one of our original
com panies was found ed by the inventor of the
gram ophone, Em ile Berliner.
• EM I scientists invented stereo record ing.
• It is the fourth largest record com pany out of the ‘big
four’.
• In N ovem ber 201 1 C itigroup announced a d eal to sell
off pieces of the com pany with the m usic arm going
to Vivend i's U niversal m usic group.
8. A rtists.
• L ily Allen
• The Beatles
• C old play
• Gorrilaz
• D avid Guetta
• Iron M aid en
• N orah Jones
• K aty Perry
• K ylie M inogue
• K T Tunstall
9. Subsidiary L abels.
• Angel
• C apitol
• EM I C lassics
• EM I C M G
• EM I Record s
• EM I Record s N ashville
• Virgin C lassics
• Virgin Record s.
