Zomba Label Group
| RCA/Jive Label Group | |
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| Parent company | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Founded | January 2009 |
| Defunct | July 2011 |
| Status | Defunct |
| Distributor(s) | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Official website | http://www.sonymusic.com |
| RCA Music Group | |
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| Parent company | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Founded | March 2004 |
| Distributor(s) | RCA/Jive Label Group |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Official website | Official website |
| Jive Label Group | |
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| Parent company | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Official website | Official website |
RCA/Jive Label Group was a short-lived American record label group, owned by Sony Music Entertainment and representing the merger of the RCA Music Group and Jive Label Group. The umbrella group was formed in 2007 under the name BMG Label Group, was rebranded as RCA/Jive Label Group in 2009. In July 2011 it was finally dissolved into two separate labels in 2011: the RCA Music Group and Epic Records which took Jive subsidiaries (LaFace, Battery, etc.) until October 2011 when it shut down Jive Records along with Arista Records and J Records. Those artists on those three labels were moved to the "rebranded" RCA Records.
RCA/Jive configuration began as the BMG Label Group during the last year of the Sony BMG merger. The group was officially formed in September 2007 when Bertelsmann restructured their RCA and Zomba groups into one entity bearing the BMG branding. Bob Anderson and Kevin Twitchell led the sales department for the new group, and John Fleckenstein was named senior VP of international. By early 2008, the BMG Label Group was said to consist of RCA Records, Jive Records, J Records, LaFace, Arista, Volcano Entertainment, Verity, GospoCentric and Fo Yo Soul. In April 2008, Barry Weiss was promoted to chairman and CEO of the BMG Label Group, a position he still held since the groups rebranding. Weiss replaced longtime music exec Clive Davis, who became the Chief Creative Officer. Though some interpreted this move by Sony as a way of shuffling Davis out of the company, he quickly reasserted his position as a hitmaker for Sony working with artists such as Leona Lewis and Jennifer Hudson.
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