Abstract
Universal Music Group is the biggest American music company and corporation worldwide. Currently, the company is a subsidiary of Vivendi Groupe, and owns Universal Music Publishing Group, the second biggest music publishing company all over the world.
The global corporate headquarters of the company are located in Santa Monica, California, United States of America. Universal Music Group is clearly the leader of the music industry, it produces and sales many national and international artists and bands, through its own music labels Barclay, Polydor, Mercury, AZ, ULM, Motown France etc.
At the beginning, Universal Music Group was only called Universal Music. They were first attached to the movie studio Universal Pictures. The present organization we know today has been created by the merge between Seagram and Polygram, in 1998. The name of Universal Music Group appeared when MCA Music Entertainment Group was renamed Universal Music
Group.
