Warner Bros. Records Inc., renamed Warner Records in 2019, is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group and headquartered in Burbank, California. It was founded in 1958 as the recorded music division of the American film studio Warner Bros., and was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations for much of its existence. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the music industry to one of the top record labels in the world.
In 2004, these music assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner and purchased by a private equity group. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group and was the world's last publicly traded major music company before being bought and privatized by Access Industries in 2011. WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates, and Max Lousada oversees recorded music operations of the company.
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