Columbia Label Group

Columbia Records was established in 1887 by Edward D. Easton, and the American Gramophone Company with the assistance of conductor William Thomas Carpender and inventor Emile Berliner is one of the best-recognized labels globally for recordings crafted from 1888 to 1991. The business enterprise created Columbia’s first bodily information on wax cylinders in 1889 that had been advertised to colleges, observatories, and larger businesses.

The label was sold by CBS in 1938 at some stage in the Great Depression however then offered to Sony Music Entertainment which has been using Columbia’s call since 1991 for all of its information. Columbia Label Group is now certainly considered one of America’s 3 predominant file labels with Universal Music Group and Warner Bros Records.

Revenue: $500 million
Year Founded: 1887
Headquarters Location: New York, USA