Universal Motown Republic Group

Universal Motown Republic Group

Parent company	Universal Music Group
Founded	1999
Defunct	2011
Status	Defunct
Distributor(s)	Self-Distributed (In the US) The Island Def Jam Music Group (Outside the US)
Genre	Various
Country of origin	United States
Location	New York City, New York
Official website	umrg.com

Universal Motown Republic Group, also abbreviated as UMRG, was an umbrella label founded in 1999 by Universal Music Group to oversee the labels assigned to its unit. UMRG was formed in 1999 by pooling together Universal Records, Motown Records, and Republic Records, (the first of the three is now defunct), but which gave way to the current incarnations of those labels at the time, Universal Motown Records and Universal Republic Records.

Universal Motown Republic Group was one of the three Universal Music Group umbrella units in North America to deal primarily with mainstream pop, rock, and urban performers; the others being: The Island Def Jam Music Group and Interscope-Geffen-A&M. Barry Weiss served as Chairman & CEO of the Company.^[1] In the summer of 2011, changes were made at the Universal Motown Republic Group umbrella: Motown Records was separated from Universal Motown Records (causing it to shut down and transfer its artists to either Motown Records or Universal Republic Records) and the umbrella label and merged into The Island Def Jam Music Group, making Universal Republic Records a stand-alone label and shutting down Universal Motown Republic Group.^[2]

Former labels under the Universal Motown Republic Group umbrella

Universal Motown Records

Universal Republic Records

Artists

Main article: List of Universal Motown Republic artists

References

External links

Official website

Vivendi

Network information and ownership	History List of owned assets

Directors	Vincent Bolloré Arnaud de Puyfontaine Pierre Rodocanachi

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Canal+ Group	Canal+ Canalsat Afrique Calédonie Caraïbes D8 StudioCanal UK

Other assets	Dailymotion (80%) Ubisoft (15%) Gameloft (30%) Telecom Italia (20.03%)

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