Universal Music GmbH (not for release label use! DE subsidiary of Universal Music Group)
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Do not use this as release label! Digital platforms often report this label as release label, but this is usually incorrect (excluding possible compilations.)
Actual release labels are reported in copyright field (or as a separate row, like in Spotify), usually written, “A(n) [label name] Release'”, but sometimes showing only label names and nothing else. Note that in Austria and Switzerland, the naming of holding name is the same, apart from that they have a country name respectively. For those releases that are reported with same name, use Universal Music Switzerland / Universal Music Austria.
Below is a list (likely incomplete) of labels, per holding companies/imprints:
- Brunswick News
- Chapter ONE
- Def Jam Label Group
- Electrola (since 2012)
- Freizeit
- Island Mercury Labelgroup (defunct since 2003)
- Island
- Koch Universal Music
- Polydor/Island
- Polydor
- Polystar
- Motor / URBAN / Def Jam Group
- Polydor Island Group (defunct since 2004)
- Schubert Music
- Universal Music GmbH (this label, also simply known as Universal Music Germany)
- Universal Music (use this if only “Universal Music GmbH” is reported and no other label is listed; excluding compilations)
- Universal (use this if only “Universal” logo is present)
- Universal Records
- Universal Music Central Europe
- Universal Music Classics & Jazz
- Universal Music Domestic Division
- Universal Music International Division
- Universal Music Strategic Marketing
- Universal Music (use this if only “Universal Music GmbH” is reported and no other label is listed; excluding compilations)
- URBAN
- Vertigo
- Vertigo/Capitol
- Virgin Records Germany
- We Love Music
