The largest American-owned music conglomerate worldwide, it is one of the 'big three' recording companies (the three largest in the global music industry).

The battle over online music piracy is usually presented as David versus Goliath: the poor student in his dorm hunted down by a music conglomerate.

In the age of corporate music conglomerates, Mr. Gold has built a small empire on personal taste, tight quality control and canny marketing.

As the large music conglomerates bemoan a world of digital downloading, decreased sales and tight radio playlists, independent bands and labels have simply gone about making music.

When radio came along in the 1920's, Tin Pan Alley greeted it about as warmly as today's music conglomerates have greeted the Internet.

Warner, the smallest of the world's four major music conglomerates, is expected to sell shares as early as this week and hopes to raise $750 million or more.

Contemporary Christian music companies, once independent, have been bought by huge music conglomerates like BMG.

And Tracey has become a triple-threat producer, keeping one of her offices (where she runs her television, film and music conglomerate) next to her oversize bathtub.

It's the opposite of itunes, really, where there were 4 music conglomerates and then you were pretty much happy and forgetting about the Beatles and ripping the rest.

WMG is currently the third-largest of the four major international music conglomerates and the world's last publicly traded major music company.