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Warner Bros. Records Inc.

American record company, 1958–2019
Organization business Q64485206
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Summary

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is a business[1]. Warner Bros. Records Inc. has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: record company[4], subsidiary company[5]
  • Founder: Jack Warner[6]
  • Owned by: Warner Music Group[7]
  • Headquarters location: Burbank[8], New York City[9]
  • Has organizational division: Warner Bros. Records[10], Chrysalis Records[11], Reprise Records[12], Paisley Park Records[13], Warner Western[14], Warner Reprise Video[15], Raccoon[16]
  • Inception: March 19, 1958[17]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: May 28, 2019[18]
  • Location of formation: Burbank[19]
  • Parent organization or unit: Warner Music Group[20], Warner Bros. Inc.[21], Warner Bros. Pictures[22]
  • Official website: https://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/[23]
  • Replaced by: Warner Records Inc.[24]
  • Official name: Warner Bros. Records Inc.[25]
  • Legal form: corporation[26]
  • Short name: WBR[27]
  • Different from: Warner Bros. Entertainment[28]
  • History of topic: history of Warner Bros. Records[29]
  • Has works in the collection: Museum of Modern Art[30], Groninger Museum[31]
  • Trading name: Warner Bros. Records[32]
  • P14750: 6C35-2CBD-30CC-9AFD-CB46[33]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Holding[34]

  • Began / founded: 1958-03-19[35]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2019-05-28[36]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 48abf79d-e3a2-4aa0-b631-c21a52c59c50[37]

Why It Matters

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Related Entities

business Elvis Costello Jack Warner John Cale Museum of Modern Art New York City Prince Red Hot Chili Peppers Reprise Records Sire United States Warner Bros. Pictures WarnerMedia Warner Music Group Warner Records Inc.

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Hannolans · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has works in the collection → Museum of Modern Art, Groninger Museum
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has works in the collection: Groninger Museum, groninger museum ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/c5a6d992c4b|details]])"
  2. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Location of formation → Burbank
    Parent organization or unit → Warner Music Group, Warner Bros. Inc., Q65557474
    Country → United States
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 6C35-2CBD-30CC-9AFD-CB46, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
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