Warner Records Inc. is an American record label. A subsidiary of the Warner Music Group, it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded on March 19, 1958, as the recorded music division of the American film studio Warner Bros.
The gold, black and red label design used for Warner Bros. stereo albums from 1958 to 1967 and mono albums from 1964 to 1967.
The grey, black, white and yellow label design used for Warner Bros. mono albums from 1958 to 1964 when it switched to the same gold label as the stereo version.
"Cream Puff War" (1967), the first single by The Grateful Dead. The orange label with chevron border was used on Warner Bros.' American 45s for much of the 1960s.
The Warner Bros. "Burbank" picture label introduced in 1973. It was later modified when a banner was added across the WB Shield, on which the word "RECORDS" was inscribed.
Warner Music Group Corp. is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the "big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Formerly part of Time Warner, WMG was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 2005 until 2011, when it announced its privatization and sale to Access Industries. It later had its second IPO on Nasdaq in 2020, once again becoming a public company. With a multibillion-dollar annual turnover, WMG employs more than 3,500 people and has operations in more than 50 countries throughout the world.
Headquarters in 1633 Broadway, New York City
Edgar Bronfman Jr., scion of the Canadian-based Bronfman family, took control of WMG in 2004.
Leonard Blavatnik, founder of Access Industries, purchased WMG in 2011.
