Sony Music Entertainment
In 1988 Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records for $2 Billion and renamed the label to Sony Music Entertainment. CBS retains the rights to the name and the logo.
Sony introduced the Columbia label after it bought the international rights of the label from EMI. Epic Records is the other pop branch of Sony Records.
In August 2004, Sony Music Entertainment merged with BMG Entertainment to form Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
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