Sony Music Entertainment
Sony-owned major music company; West founded GOOD Music with Sony BMG in 2004.
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Sony Music Entertainment (SME), usually called Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Group Corporation and the recording arm of Sony Music Group, alongside Sony Music Publishing. It began in 1929 as the American Record Corporation, was bought by CBS in 1938 and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, became CBS Records in 1966, and was acquired by Sony in 1988 and renamed SME in 1991.
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Kanye West founded his record label and production company GOOD Music in 2004 in conjunction with Sony BMG, the 50-50 joint venture Sony and Bertelsmann set up that year. In September 2020 West said he would release no further music until he was "done with [his] contract with Sony and Universal".
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