In September 2007, Sony BMG announced they would introduce a new type of CD single, called " ringles ", for the 2007 holiday season.

However, American's current roster ( except Tom Petty ) was transferred to BMG successor Sony BMG ( now Sony Music Entertainment ) in mid-2007 after a legal battle between Warner and Rubin over the details of their former arrangement, in which American Recordings would sign and provide creative services for artists, while Warner Bros. was only to handle promotion, sales, marketing, and distribution because Rubin was prompted to move his label with his appointment to co-chairman of Columbia Records in the Spring of 2007.

After Ariola purchased General Electric's RCA Records in 1986, the combined company was renamed Bertelsmann Music Group, though Arista's US releases would not note BMG until 1987.

In September, 2007 it was announced that Sony BMG would be releasing a " best of " compilation for the band.

With the television program being moved to a different timeslot less likely to catch the eyes of potential record buyers and the single failing to attract support of radio, it seems as though the album will disappoint the hopes of Universal Music who would have been hoping to match the success of BMG Records from Australian Idol contestants.

The band would release one more album, on BMG, entitled The Oracle of Hi-Fi, before breaking up in 2003.

Catch wanted to have more personal input in the songs, but Bohlen would not allow this, so she decided in 1989 not to renew her contract with him and BMG, her record label, and left Germany to live in England.

She produced Damien Leith's album, Roy: A Tribute To Roy Orbison, which was released by Sony BMG in Australia on April 15, 2011 to coincide with what would have been Roy Orbison's 75th birthday.

For example, a person wanting to transmit a copy of "... Baby One More Time ", written by Max Martin and performed by Britney Spears, could do it either with an analog transmission or a digital transmission, whereas using an analog transmission would only require permission from BMG, the publisher, whereas use of a digital transmission would require Spears's permission as well.

Jive initially announced that they would not renew their deal with BMG, but reconsidered following the lawsuit with BMG and Trans Continental.

Initially, BMG took its time in integrating Zomba with the rest of its labels, hoping that the former independent would lift BMGs worldwide rank from fifth to fourth-largest record company.

After BMG bought Zomba in 2002 and integrated the company in June 2003, the Provident Music Group was moved under the aegis of RCA with the exception of the Publishing division which was moved under BMG Publishing ( Provident would later create its own publishing division, Essential Music Publishing, with no connection to Zomba ).

Although it had been first announced that Morgan would sign to Big Machine Records ' sister label Valory Music Group, he instead signed to BNA Records, a division of Sony BMG Nashville.

Taylor attempted to buy back the rights to the tapes in 1989, but the recordings remain with Columbia / Sony BMG with sporadic re-releases.

In late 1991, BMG furthered its relationship with Zomba buy purchasing a 25 % stake in their music publishing business, allowing them to sub-publish Zomba compositions in foreign markets.

Bertelsmann Music Group, ( BMG ), was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008.

After spending the majority of his career with Sony, and Sony BMG, Arjona signed a long-term deal with Warner Music Latina in September 2008.

In 2002, BMG bought a majority stake in the label.

Jive's distribution deal with RCA expired in 1991, at which time BMG purchased a large minority stake Zomba's records division ( including Jive ) and became its distributor.

Now part of Sony Music Entertainment after the buyout of Bertelsmann AG's 50 % stake in Sony BMG.

Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann announced on August 5, 2008 that Sony agreed to acquire Bertelsmann's 50 % stake in Sony BMG.

In 2008, when Sony bought Bertelsmann's stake in their joint Sony BMG venture, the rest of Provident became part of Sony Music Nashville.

With Sony Corporation of America's buyout of Bertelsmann's stake in Sony BMG, Sony Music Entertainment Japan stepped in to acquire outstanding shares of BMG Music Japan from Sony BMG, making it a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Japan.

From 2002 until April 2008, Davis was the Chairman and CEO of the RCA Music Group ( which included RCA Records, J Records and Arista Records ), Chairman and CEO of J Records, and Chairman and CEO of BMG North America.

19 originally partnered with Bertelsmann Music Group ( BMG ) to promote and distribute the recordings through its labels RCA Records, Arista Records, J Records, Jive Records.

Arista, always an independently managed label at BMG, was merged with J Records in August 2005 and began operating under the newly formed RCA Music Group — of which Davis had become CEO, and thus again became in control of Arista.

* It Had To Be You ... The Great All American Songbook, Rod Stewart ( J / BMG )

Live at Benaroya Hall was released through a one-album deal with BMG, and the band used the experiment to later sign with BMG subsidiary J Records to produce the album Pearl Jam.

J Records was founded in 2000 by industry veteran Clive Davis with $ 150 million in financing from BMG, after his ousting from Arista Records the same year, and initially operated as an independently managed company distributed through BMG.

The Company was established by a number of media luminaries, including the former CEO of Time-Life, the former President of Warner Music Media and former President of Bertelsmann Music Group ( BMG ) Direct and the former Regional Creative Director of J. Walter Thompson-Asia Pacific.

On October 5, 2007, Thomas was ordered to pay the six record companies ( Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc .) $ 9, 250 for each of the 24 songs they had focused on in this case.

Following the completion of her middle school education, Robyn signed to Ricochet Records Sweden, a subsidiary of BMG.

In November 2002, Robyn swapped labels at BMG ( from RCA to Jive Records ) and released the album Don't Stop the Music in Sweden.

A later variation of this logo was revived by BMG after it bought RCA Records from GE, and is still used by Sony Music Entertainment | Sony Music today.

GE sold its 50 % interest in then-RCA / Ariola International Records to its partner Bertelsmann and the company was renamed BMG Music, for Bertelsmann Music Group.

In the mid-1980s she started a new, highly successful record label called Record Station ( sold to German BMG in the early 90s ), followed by Anderson Records.

It was released by the independent label Dinosaur Records and distributed by BMG.

It was reissued on a single compact disc by BMG in 1997 and again by Buddah Records in 2000.

Released on the Sony BMG label Burgundy Records, it peaked at 17 on the United States Top 200 Album Chart ( her highest placing on the chart since 1983 ).

Her international self-titled debut studio album Belinda was released in Mexico by Sony BMG and RCA Records on August 5, 2003 and became as great a success in many different countries, as it was in Mexico, selling over 2. 5 million copies worldwide.

Non-US distribution was handled by BMG until the deal with Columbia Records.

In 2004, De La Soul released a new full album: The Grind Date on Sanctuary / BMG Records because the venture between Tommy Boy and Warner Bros. Records was shut down and the group's contract was shopped to the other WEA labels.

Their wishes came true, and the band was signed to Sony BMG Music Entertainment / RCA Records.

BMG brought back the lightning bolt logo that was last used in 1968 to make clear that RCA Records was no longer co-owned with the other RCA entities which GE sold or closed.