UMG Recordings, Inc. (Universal Music Group, Inc., operational headquarters of Universal Music Group, based in Santa Monica, USA; read annotations)

Many digital releases report this as a release label, it typically is not. Please double check the phonographic copyright line for additional label, i.e. "FP" or “A [insert label] release”, etc. and use that label and not the phonographic copyright label (which is also usually UMG Recordings, Inc.). If no other label is mentioned in the copyright label area, than use this label (mostly some compilations).

UMG Recordings, Inc. — which is the operational headquarters of Universal Music Group (UMG) — is also known as Universal Music Group, Inc. (see UMG organization chart) and is based at: 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA.

Its parent is Universal Music Group N.V. (namely "Universal Music Group" or "UMG") whose corporate headquarters is in Hilversum, NL, which oversees offices in over 60 territories via its immediate NL-based subsidiary Universal International Music B.V.