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title: "Universal Music Group: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "V. is a Dutch-American music corporation under Dutch law."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-universal-music-group
type: Organization
wikidata: Q38903
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Music_Group
website: http://www.universalmusic.fr/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Universal Music Group

> V. is a Dutch-American music corporation under Dutch law.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-universal-music-group

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Netherlands
- Founded: 1934-09-01
- Headquarters: New York
- Status: public
- Website: http://www.universalmusic.fr/
- Employees: 7,912 (as of 2017-12-31)
- Also known as: UMG Recordings, Inc., Universal Music
- Industries: music industry, phonographic industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/UMG
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4qlPNKbtQxH3KEiy4_aIA
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniversalMusicGroup
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universalmusicgroup

## Key people

- MCA Inc., founder (American media, entertainment conglomerate)
- Lucian Grainge, chief executive (British music executive), since 2011-01-01
- Lucian Grainge, director (British music executive)
- Shakira (Colombian singer-songwriter (born 1977))
- Nikki Amini (Swedish marketer)
- Keiichi Ishizaka (Japanese music producer, businessman (1945-2016))

## Revenue

- 2017-01-01: EUR 5.7 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Motown, Polydor Records, Mercury Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Island Records, Virgin Records, Interscope Records, Priority Records, Decca, Shady Records, Def Jam Recordings, London Records, The Island Def Jam Music Group, The Kushner-Locke Company, Cash Money Records, Young Money Entertainment, Verve Records, Roc-A-Fella Records, Ruff Ryders Entertainment, Vertigo Records, Imperial, Eagle Rock Entertainment, Amaru Entertainment, MCA Records, Interscope Geffen A&M, EmArcy Records, Capitol Music Group, Musidisc, EMI Records, Flip Records, Millennium Media, Universal Music Group Nashville, Universal Music Enterprises, Universal Music Latin Entertainment, Universal Music Japan, Universal Music Spain, S.L., Universal Music Argentina S.A., Universal Music GmbH, Virgin EMI Records, Universal Music Hong Kong, EMI Records Japan, Universal Music Taiwan, Universal Music France, Mass Appeal Records, Eccentric Music, Venkow Records, Universal Music Romania, Capitol Recording Corporation, Universal Music Portugal, Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd., Casablanca Music, LLC, Republic Records, Inc., SDKT Entertainment, UMG Recordings, Inc., Universal Music Operations Ltd., Polar Music International AB, Universal Music Indonesia, Universal Music Malaysia, Universal Music Sdn. Bhd., Universal Music Russia, Republic Corps

## Products

- music

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Universal Music Group, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-universal-music-group#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38903, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Music_Group

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