Walt Disney Company (DIS)

Buena Vista Music Group

The Buena Vista Music Group includes Walt Disney Records, Hollywood Records (including the Hollywood Records and Buena Vista Records labels), Lyric Street Records, and Disney Music Publishing.

Walt Disney Records produces and distributes compact discs and music DVDs in the United States. Music categories include infant, children’s, read-along, teens, all-family, and soundtracks from animated and other films distributed under the Walt Disney Pictures banner. We also license the creation of similar products throughout the rest of the world. Our Hollywood Records subsidiary, under the Hollywood Records and Buena Vista Records labels, develops, produces, and markets recordings from new talent across the spectrum of popular music, as well as soundtracks from certain live-action motion pictures. We also own the Nashville-based music label Lyric Street Records, which produces and markets recordings in the genre of country music.

In addition, each of our labels commissions new music for the Company’s motion picture and television programs, records the songs, and licenses the song copyrights to others for printed music, records, audiovisual devices, public performances, and digital distribution.

Disney Music Publishing controls the copyrights of thousands of musical compositions derived from the Company’s motion picture, television, record, and theme park properties, as well as musical compositions written by songwriters under exclusive contract. It is responsible for the management, protection, growth, and licensing of the Disney song catalog on a worldwide basis, including licensing for printed music, records, audio-visual works, and new media.