CBS Records

2006–present


In 2006, CBS Corporation launched CBS Records to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The CBS Records name was once used in the 1960's to release Columbia Records products outside the United States and Canada because EMI owned a similar label called Columbia, which operated in every market except North America, Spain, and Japan. CBS sold the record label in 1988 to Sony Corporation (through its New York City-based Sony Corporation of America unit). In 1991. CBS Records was renamed Columbia Records and the company was renamed Sony Music Entertainment.