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1 Def American Recordings
- 1.1 1988-1993
2 American Records
- 2.1 1993-present

Def American Recordings

1988-1993

American Recordings was founded in 1988 by Rick Rubin (founder of Def Jam Recordings) as Def American Recordings.

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American Records

1993-present

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In 1993, Rick Rubin renamed Def American Recordings to just American Recordings and created a new logo of the US flag upside down after Rick Rubin looked up Def in the dictionary.

Universal Music Group

Owners: Vivendi (90%) | Tencent (10%)

Capitol Music Group
Astralwerks | Blue Note Records | Capitol Records | Caroline Records | G-Unit Records | Harvest Records | Motown | Priority Records | Virgin Records

Capitol Christian Music Group
Capitol Christian Distribution | Capitol CMG Group (Credential Recordings | ForeFront Records | Motown Gospel | Sparrow Records | Worship Together) | EMI CMG Publishing (SoulStride Records) | Hillsong Music Australia | sixstepsrecords

Interscope Geffen A&M Records
DGC Records | Geffen Records | Interscope Records

Def Jam Recordings
Disturbing tha Peace | GOOD Music

Republic Records
American Recordings | Aware Records | Big Machine Records | Brushfire Records | Casablanca Records | Cash Money Records | Lava Records | XO | Young Money Entertainment

Universal Music Enterprises
Chronicles | Hip-O Records | UM3 | Universal Music Latin Entertainment | Universal Music Publishing Group (Universal Production Music | Killer Tracks | FirstCom Music | Koka Media | Kosinus | Focus Music | Paris Music)

Universal Music Group Nashville
MCA Nashville | Mercury Nashville | Capitol Records Nashville | EMI Records Nashville | Lost Highway

Universal Music UK
EMI Records | Polydor Records | Vertigo Records | Universal Music TV

Universal Music Australia
Island Records Australia | Mercury Records Australia | Modular Recordings | Central Station Records | Dew Process | Eleven | Golden Era Records | Liberation Music | Ministry of Sound Australia | Roadshow Music Group | ABC Music

Verve Label Group
Decca Records | GRP Records | Philips Records | Verve Records | Verve Forecast Records

Third-party labels/Other properties
Aftermath Entertainment | Alamo Records | Big Machine Label Group (Big Machine Records | BMLG Records | Nash Icon Records | Valory Music) | Central Station | Concord Music Group | Disney Music Group (Walt Disney Records | Hollywood Records | DMG Nashville | Buena Vista Records) | Dreamville | EarDrummers | Island Records | London Recordings | PolyGram Entertainment | Federal Films | Quality Control Music | Roc Nation | Shady Records | Top Dawg Entertainment | Varèse Sarabande | Vevo | Back Lot Music | Fontana Distribution (Fontana Records | Relativity Music Group) | YG Entertainment

Former/Defunct
ABC Records | A&M Records | A&M Octone Records | Big Hit Entertainment | Blue Thumb Records | Chrysalis Records | Columbia Graphophone Company | Def Jam South | Deram Records | DreamWorks Records | Dot Records | Dunhill Records | EMI | Fallout Recordings | Gordy Records | I.R.S. Records | The Island Def Jam Music Group | Island Records Group | Kapp Records | Mau5trap Recordings | MCA | MCA Records | Mercury Music Group | Mercury Records | MGM Records | Nippon Phonogram | Paramount Records | Phonogram | PolyGram | PolyGram Music Video | Rising Tide Records | Roc-A-Fella Records | Tamla Records | Seagram's | Uni Records | Universal Records | Teen Island Records | Universal Motown Records | Universal Music Distribution | United Artists Records | UMG Soundtracks | Uptown Records | V2 Records | Virgin EMI Records

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Main assets:

Part of Vivendi

Free-to-air channels:
C8 | CStar | CStar Hits France | CNews

Premium channels:
Canal+ | Canal+ Cinéma | Canal+ Sport | Canal+ Décalé/Canal+ Sport Week-end | Canal+ Family | Canal+ Séries
myCanal: Canal+ Premier League | Canal+ Top 14 Rugby | Canal+ Moto GP | Canal+ Formula 1| Canal+ Ligue 1

MultiThématiques:
Ciné+
TV: Ciné+ Premier | Ciné+ Frisson | Ciné+ Émotion | Ciné+ Famiz | Ciné+ Club | Ciné+ Classic
myCanal: Ciné+ Horreur | Ciné+ Western | Ciné+ British | Ciné+ de Quartier | Ciné+ Crime | Ciné+ Comédie | Ciné+ Romance | Ciné+ 80's | Ciné+ Asie | Ciné+ Animé | Ciné+ Italie | Ciné+ 90's | Ciné+ en Musique | Ciné+ 70's | Ciné+ Bergman | Ciné+ Bollywood
Planète+: Planète+ A&E | Planète+ Crime+Investigation
Comédie+ | Seasons | Infosport+ | Rugby+ | Foot+ | Golf+ | Télétoon+ | Piwi+ | Polar+ | Clique TV | Multisports

Platforma Canal+

Parent companies: Canal+ Group (51%), TVN (Discovery, Inc.) (32%) and Liberty Global (17%)

Predecessors:
Cyfra+ | N | Wizja TV

Canal+ branded channels:
Canal+ Premium^(HD) | Canal+ 1^(HD) | Canal+ Film^(HD) | Canal+ Seriale^(HD) | Canal+ Family^(HD) | Canal+ Dokument^(HD) | Canal+ Kuchnia^(HD) | Canal+ Sport^(HD) | Canal+ Sport 2^(HD)| Canal+ Sport 3^(HD) | Canal+ Sport 4^(HD) | Canal+ Domo (Czech Republic and Slovakia^(HD) | Poland^(HD)) | Canal+ 4K Ultra HD

Other channels:
Ale Kino+^(HD) | MiniMini+^(HD) | NSport+^(HD) | Planete+^(HD) | TeleToon+^(HD) | Novelas+^(HD)

Former channels:
Canal+ Gol | Hyper+^(HD) | nPremium HD | nPremium 2 HD | nPremium 3 HD | nPremium 4 HD | nTalk | Wizja Jeden | Wizja Pogoda | Wizja Sport | Avante

Part of Canal+ Group

Subsidiary: UPC DTH

Current services:
Austria: HD Austria | Belgium: TV Vlaanderen (Flemish); TéléSAT (French) | Czech Republic and Slovakia: Skylink; freeSAT | Germany: Diveo; M7 | Hungary: Direct One | Netherlands: Canal Digitaal; Online.nl | Romania: Focus Sat

Other:
StudioCanal (UK | Australia) | A+ (Africa) | Canal+ | Canal+ Horizons (Africa) | K+ (Vietnam) (49%) | Platforma Canal+ (51%) | Canal+ Myanmar | La Chaîne du Père Noël (only for Christmas seasons) | OCS Max (33 %) | OCS City (33 %) | OCS Choc (33 %) | OCS Géants (33%) | Mezzo (50%) | Mezzo Live HD (50%) | Olympia TV | Canal+ À la demande | Canal+ Séries (SVOD) | Canal VOD

Former/defunct:
France: TPS (Star | Cinéclub | Cinécomedy | Cinéculte | Cinéfamily | Homecinéma | Cinéstar | Cinétoile | Cinextreme | Foot | Bandiagara | Initiés TV | Météo Express | Multivision | Superfoot | Le TV mail | Des Idées | TPS & Vous | Info Express | TPS HD | Boutiques) | Canal+ Bleu | Canal+ Jaune | Canal+ Vert | CinéCinéma Info | CinéCinéma Auteur | Planète Juniors | Kiosque | Canal+ 3D | Pink TV (17.52 %) | Canal+ Hi-Tech | Ciné+ Star | Cuisine+ | Jimmy | Sport+ | Maison+ | Planète+ Thalassa | Canalsat Campus Bac

International: Canal+ Belgium | Canal+ Netherlands (Canal Digitaal) | Canal+ Nordic | Canal+ Spain (Digital+ | Canal Satélite Digital) | Canal Digital | Premiere | Tele+

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Universal Music Group

Owners: Vivendi (90%) | Tencent (10%)

Capitol Music Group
Astralwerks | Blue Note Records | Capitol Records | Caroline Records | G-Unit Records | Harvest Records | Motown | Priority Records | Virgin Records

Capitol Christian Music Group
Capitol Christian Distribution | Capitol CMG Group (Credential Recordings | ForeFront Records | Motown Gospel | Sparrow Records | Worship Together) | EMI CMG Publishing (SoulStride Records) | Hillsong Music Australia | sixstepsrecords

Interscope Geffen A&M Records
DGC Records | Geffen Records | Interscope Records

Def Jam Recordings
Disturbing tha Peace | GOOD Music

Republic Records
American Recordings | Aware Records | Big Machine Records | Brushfire Records | Casablanca Records | Cash Money Records | Lava Records | XO | Young Money Entertainment

Universal Music Enterprises
Chronicles | Hip-O Records | UM3 | Universal Music Latin Entertainment | Universal Music Publishing Group (Universal Production Music | Killer Tracks | FirstCom Music | Koka Media | Kosinus | Focus Music | Paris Music)

Universal Music Group Nashville
MCA Nashville | Mercury Nashville | Capitol Records Nashville | EMI Records Nashville | Lost Highway

Universal Music UK
EMI Records | Polydor Records | Vertigo Records | Universal Music TV

Universal Music Australia
Island Records Australia | Mercury Records Australia | Modular Recordings | Central Station Records | Dew Process | Eleven | Golden Era Records | Liberation Music | Ministry of Sound Australia | Roadshow Music Group | ABC Music

Verve Label Group
Decca Records | GRP Records | Philips Records | Verve Records | Verve Forecast Records

Third-party labels/Other properties
Aftermath Entertainment | Alamo Records | Big Machine Label Group (Big Machine Records | BMLG Records | Nash Icon Records | Valory Music) | Central Station | Concord Music Group | Disney Music Group (Walt Disney Records | Hollywood Records | DMG Nashville | Buena Vista Records) | Dreamville | EarDrummers | Island Records | London Recordings | PolyGram Entertainment | Federal Films | Quality Control Music | Roc Nation | Shady Records | Top Dawg Entertainment | Varèse Sarabande | Vevo | Back Lot Music | Fontana Distribution (Fontana Records | Relativity Music Group) | YG Entertainment

Former/Defunct
ABC Records | A&M Records | A&M Octone Records | Big Hit Entertainment | Blue Thumb Records | Chrysalis Records | Columbia Graphophone Company | Def Jam South | Deram Records | DreamWorks Records | Dot Records | Dunhill Records | EMI | Fallout Recordings | Gordy Records | I.R.S. Records | The Island Def Jam Music Group | Island Records Group | Kapp Records | Mau5trap Recordings | MCA | MCA Records | Mercury Music Group | Mercury Records | MGM Records | Nippon Phonogram | Paramount Records | Phonogram | PolyGram | PolyGram Music Video | Rising Tide Records | Roc-A-Fella Records | Tamla Records | Seagram's | Uni Records | Universal Records | Teen Island Records | Universal Motown Records | Universal Music Distribution | United Artists Records | UMG Soundtracks | Uptown Records | V2 Records | Virgin EMI Records

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Other assets
Dailymotion | TIM (23.94%) | Gameloft | Banijay (32.9%)

Former/Defunct
Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment | Sikora Entertainment | Vivendi Games (Mobile) | PolyGram | Seagram's | Universal Pictures | NBCUniversal | USA Networks Inc. | Activision | Activision Blizzard | MCA | Sierra Entertainment | Universal Interactive | Nelvana | RedOctane | Infinity Ward | Associated Film Distribution | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment | Thorn EMI Video | Thorn EMI/HBO Video | EMI Television Productions | Almi Pictures Productions | Neversoft | Embassy Film Associates | Treyarch
Telecommunications: GVT | Maroc Telecom | Tele2 (France)

Sony Music Entertainment

Part of Sony

Flagship labels
Columbia Records | RCA Records | Epic Records | Arista Records

Other labels/properties
Arista Nashville | Ariola Records | Bad Boy Records | Century Media Records | Columbia Nashville | Columbia SevenOne | DefStar Records | Freebandz | Legacy Recordings | Nick Records | Now That's What I Call Music! | Philadelphia International Records | Provident Label Group | RCA Inspiration | RCA Records Nashville | RED Music | Sony Music Publishing (EMI Production Music | Extreme Music) | Sony Classical | Sony Masterworks | Sony Music Entertainment Japan (Aniplex | Peanuts Worldwide (39%)¹ | Sony Creative Products) | Sony Music Latin | Syco Music | The Orchard | Thirty Tigers | Ultra Music | Vevo | 604 Records | Madison Gate Records

Defunct/Former
American Recordings | Aware Records | Bang Records | Bell Records | Bertelsmann Music Group | Buddah Records | CBS Records International | Colgems Records | Colpix Records | Columbia Graphophone Company | Creation Records | EMI Music Publishing | Fox Records | Jive Records | J Records | LaFace Records | Loud Records | Nickelodeon Video | Relativity Records | Sony Wonder² | Sony Music Soundtrax | TriStar Music | TVT Records | Zomba Label Group | Def Jam Recordings

Notes
¹ Co-owned with WildBrain (41%) and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates (20%).
² Now a label of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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