Warner Music Group Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Warner Music Group is one of the Big Five record labels. Its labels include Atlantic Records, Elektra Records, London Records, Reprise Records, Rhino Entertainment, Warner Music Australia, Word Entertainment, Maverick Records, and others.WMG also has a publishing arm, Warner-Chappell Music which includes the print music company Warner Music Publications.
It was recently sold by parent Time Warner to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman, Jr in order for the parent company to reduce its debt load. This takeover was completed on February 27, 2004.
In the 2004 transition to becoming an independent label, WMG hired record industry heavyweight Lyor Cohen from Universal Music Group in an attempt to reduce cost and increase performance.
Artists whose work is, or has in the past, been published by Warner Music Group include:
- 10,000 Maniacs
- AC/DC
- The Afghan Whigs
- Herb Alpert
- Bad Company
- The Beautiful South
- Better Than Ezra
- Blaque
- Blindside
- Björk
- Karla Bonoff
- Michelle Branch
- Bread
- The Breeders
- Jackson Browne
- Michael Bublé
- Buffalo Springfield
- Busta Rhymes
- The Call
- The Cars
- Harry Chapin
- Tracy Chapman
- Natalie Cole
- Judy Collins
- The Cure
- Sammy Davis, Jr
- Dokken
- The Doors
- Down
- The Eagles
- Missy Elliott
- Stan Freberg
- Emmylou Harris
- Faster Pussycat
- Stan Freberg
- Glenn Frey
- Jimmie Dale Gilmore
- Nanci Griffith
- Sara Hickman
- Hoodoo Gurus Rock
- The Housemartins
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Colin James
- Etta James
- Ben Jelen
- Howard Jones
- Spike Jones
- Ben E. King
- Tom Lehrer
- Gordon Lightfoot
- Lillix (a Canadian girl group)
- Madonna
- Ziggy Marley
- Dean Martin
- Sergio Mendes
- Natalie Merchant
- Metallica
- Joni Mitchell
- Moby
- Alanis Morissette
- Mötley Crüe
- Nada Surf
- Me'shell Ndegeocello
- Phil Ochs
- Ol' Dirty Bastard
- Pantera
- Laura Pausini
- Teddy Pendergrass
- Phish
- Pixies
- The Pogues
- The Prodigy
- R.E.M
- Leon Redbone
- Linda Ronstadt
- Tom Rush
- Patrice Rushen
- David Sanborn
- Georgia Satellites
- Peter Schilling
- Shifty
- Carly Simon
- Nina Simone
- Simply Red
- Frank Sinatra
- The Sisters of Mercy
- The Smiths
- Phoebe Snow
- Staind
- Dave Stewart
- The Stooges
- Story of the Year
- The Sugarcubes
- Keith Sweat
- Sweetwater
- Tangerine Dream
- They Might Be Giants
- Third Eye Blind
- The Velvet Underground
- Violent Femmes
- Tom Waits
- Grover Washington Jr
- Ween
- X (US)
- Yes
- Warren Zevon
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