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Sony Music Entertainment (known as Sony Music and abbreviated as SME) is an American music company owned by Sony.

It is incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System.

In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records.

Sony Corporation bought the company in 1987 and renamed it Sony Music Entertainment in 1991.

Syco Entertainment, often known simply as Syco, is a British entertainment company established by British entertainment mogul Simon Cowell.

The company operates a record label, talent agency, film, music, and television production company, as well as a music publishing house.

It operates a global joint venture between Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment focused on the production and marketing of music, television, film and digital content.

It employs a staff of more than 50 in offices in London and Los Angeles, and manages a string of high-profile television and music brands through partnerships with the label Sony Music and the television production company, FremantleMedia.

RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986.

General Electric took over the company in late 1985 and split it up the following year.

Columbia Records (also known simply as Columbia) is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment (SME), a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the United States division of Sony Corporation.

It was founded in 1887, evolving from an earlier enterprise named the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company.

Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, being the second major record company to produce recorded records.

Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers, instrumentalists, and bands.

From 1961 to 1990, its recordings were released outside the U.S. and Canada by the CBS Records label (which was named after the Columbia Broadcasting System) to avoid confusion with the EMI label of the same name, before adopting the Columbia name internationally in 1990.

It is one of Sony Music's three flagship record labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records.