Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG) is the world's only publicly-traded major music company and comprises an array of businesses aimed at helping artists achieve long-term creative and financial success while providing consumers with the highest-quality music content available. WMG is engaged in the recorded music business (including artist services) and the music publishing business.

WMG is a global leader in national and international repertoire and home to some of the best-known labels in the recorded music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, Bad Boy, Cordless, East West, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Rykodisc, Sire, Warner Bros. and Word. In addition to its U.S. labels, WMG operates through numerous affiliates and licensees in more than 50 countries. Our recorded music business includes our growing artist services business, which offers artist management, merchandising, touring, fan clubs, VIP ticketing, sponsorships and brand endorsements, and numerous third-party solutions that facilitate the sale of music-based content directly to consumers. Our artist services business works with WMG artists as well as artists not otherwise signed to WMG labels.

Our primary music publishing business, Warner/Chappell Music, is one of the world's leading music publishers, with a catalog of more than one million songs from more than 65,000 songwriters, and includes Non-Stop Music, a full service music production library company.

In recent years, we've grown to become the world's third-largest recorded music business and third-largest music publishing business and, during a time of dramatic industry transition, have established ourselves as one of the music industry's most successful companies.

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recent achievements include:

Reaching 21% U.S. Total Album market share in both fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2008, our highest full-year album share in a decade, according to Nielsen/SoundScan data;
Having the No. 1 label in the U.S. in calendar years 2005 and 2007 (Warner Bros.), and calendar 2008 (Atlantic), according to Nielsen/SoundScan data;
Reporting the highest U.S. market share growth of all major music companies in Total Albums sold between calendar 2004 and calendar 2008, according to Nielsen/SoundScan data;
Leading the way in digital deal-making, including new models for monetizing user-generated video content, "access" model partnerships with mobile operators and internet service providers, and equity participations in social media networks;
Increasing U.S. track-equivalent album unit sales between calendar 2004 and calendar 2008 while the overall recorded music industry reported a double-digit drop;
Atlantic Records being cited as the first major label to achieve more than 50% of recorded music sales from digital products, as reported by the New York Times in November 2008;
Warner/Chappell winning SESAC's "Publisher of the Year Award" for the sixth consecutive year in 2007;
Sustaining our lead in the independent music distribution business with Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA), which was the No.1 U.S. independent distributor for four consecutive years through November 2008, according to Nielsen/SoundScan data, and winner of the 2007 "Medium Distributor of the Year" Award from the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM);
Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation (WEA Corp.) winning NARM's 2006 "Large Distributor of the Year" Award for the second consecutive year;
 
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