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, and was finally dissolved into two separate groups in 2011: the newly formed
Epic Label Group, and the continuing
RCA Music Group.
History
Formation as BMG
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,...
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