Warner Music Group Corp.

Warner Music Group Corp. is a music entertainment company operating in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. The company operates through two segments: Recorded Music and Music Publishing. In its Recorded Music segment, Warner Music Group discovers and develops recording artists, and handles the marketing, promotion, distribution, sale, and licensing of their music. It also markets its music catalog through compilations, reissuances of previously released music and video titles, and previously unreleased materials. The Music Publishing segment involves owning and acquiring rights to approximately two million musical compositions, which include pop hits, American standards, folk songs, and compositions from motion pictures and theater. This segment also administers music and soundtracks for various third-party television and film producers and studios. The company conducts its operations primarily through a collection of record labels, including Asylum, Big Beat, Canvasback, East West, Erato, FFRR, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Sire, Spinnin' Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Records Nashville. Warner Music Group markets, distributes, and sells music and video products to retailers and wholesale distributors, and also distributes independent labels to retail and wholesale distributors. Its distribution channels include various distribution centers and ventures, retail outlets, online physical retailers, streaming services, and download services. The company's catalog features a wide range of genres, such as pop, rock, jazz, classical, country, R&B, hip-hop, rap, reggae, Latin, folk, alternative, blues, gospel, and other Christian music. Warner Music Group Corp. was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in New York, New York.