Warner Music Group Corp.

Warner Music Group Corp. is a global music entertainment company operating primarily through two business segments: Recorded Music and Music Publishing. The Recorded Music segment discovers, develops, and markets recording artists, distributing recordings through iconic labels such as Atlantic Records, Warner Records, Elektra Records, and Parlophone Records. The Music Publishing segment, conducted via Warner Chappell Music, acquires rights to and licenses musical compositions, representing a catalog of over two million works from more than 190,000 songwriters and composers. Its customers and commercial partners include individual listeners and fans, digital streaming services, social media and technology platforms, broadcasters, public venues, and media producers seeking synchronization licenses for film, television, advertising, and video games.

The company maintains a worldwide presence through a broad network of subsidiaries, regional creative hubs, affiliates, sub-publishers, and third-party licensees across core territories and emerging markets, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, Indonesia, Poland, and South Africa. The provided text does not state the location of the company's headquarters.

Summary of the business section of Warner Music's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

“As of September 30, 2025, we employed approximately 5,500 persons worldwide, including temporary and part-time employees as well as employees that were added through acquisitions.”