RCA Music Group was an umbrella group of labels distributed by Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....

 that existed between March 2004 and 2009 and for a short period of time between July 2011 and October 2011 until all RCA Music Group labels were merged with RCA Records.

Inception

RCA Music Group was created by BMG in March 2004 shortly after the formation of Zomba Label Group. It became a part of the BMG Label Group along with Zomba. In 2008, BMG sold their half of the Sony BMG merger back to Sony, but retained the use of the BMG name. Thus, in early 2009, the BMG Label Group was rebranded to the RCA/Jive Label Group, half of which was the RCA Music Group (Zomba was also rebranded to become the Jive Label Group).

2011 Restructuring

In mid-2011, Sony announced that they were again restructuring RCA/Jive Label Group. The Jive side split. Some artists moved under a restructured Epic Records

Epic Records

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 which is now headed by L.A. Reid. Epic will focus on urban music while the RCA Music Group continued on its own. Jive Records was moved under RCA Music Group, minus those artists who were moved to Epic. Some of Jive's urban artists such as Usher

Usher (entertainer)

Usher Terry Raymond IV , who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer-songwriter, and actor. He is considered around the world to be the reigning King of R&B. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100...

 moved to Epic, while other Jive pop artists, including Britney Spears

Britney Spears

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 & P!nk

P!nk

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, stayed under Jive as the label moved under the RCA Music Group. Peter Edge

Peter Edge

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 serves as CEO of the company. The company is expected to start releasing all of its releases under RCA Records

RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...

. Arista Records, J Records and Jive Records have been shut down with all of their artists moving to RCA. In August 2011 RCA laid off 20 members of its staff.