Stone Music Entertainment
Native name | 스톤 뮤직 엔터테인먼트 |
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| Formerly | Mediopia Mnet Media CJ E&M Music |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | |
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| Founded |
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| Defunct | April 20, 2021 (music production and management)[1] |
| Successor | Wake One |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Jung Hyung-jin (CEO) |
| Services |
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| Owner | CJ ENM |
| Parent | CJ ENM |
| Website | http://stonemusicent.net (archived 2018年2月09日 06:30:54 +0000) |
Stone Music Entertainment (Hangul: 스톤 뮤직 엔터테인먼트), is a South Korean music distribution company under CJ ENM, as part of a partnership with the music streaming store Genie Music since 2021.[2] It was one of the largest co-publisher companies in South Korea.
The company was also formerly a music production and management company, which managed artists such as SG Wannabe, Davichi, Roy Kim, Son Ho-young, Eric Nam, Fromis 9, HEDY, and TO1, before the business closed in April 2021.
Under its previous name CJ E&M Music, it was named Music Distributor of the Year at the Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards in 2014.[3]
History
[edit ]The company was originally established as Mediopia in May 1993 and later renamed to Mediopia Technology Co., Ltd in June 1994, as a manufacturer and distributor of electronic devices.
In January 2002, the company was listed on KOSDAQ.
In August 2004, Maekyung Hudson was incorporated as a subsidiary.
In July 2006, their largest shareholder changed from Poibos Co., Ltd. to CJ Corporation and was incorporated as an affiliate of CJ Corporation. The company later became a part of CJ Media Co., Ltd.
In September 2006, the company was later established again as Mnet Media, following the merger with GM Agency, MaxMP3, and ID Icheon Entertainment.
In January 2007, the company established the entertainment company Core Contents Media, then headed by producer Kim Kwang-soo.
In May 2007, CJ Music was merged into Mnet Media, which operated in the music distribution and broadcasting businesses.
In January 2011, Mnet Media was merged into CJ E&M and renamed as CJ E&M Music. Following the merger, the company was revoked from the KOSDAQ listing in March 2011.
In December 2013, CJ E&M Music acquired 19% of Jellyfish Entertainment's shares to form a partnership.
In March 2014, the CJ E&M label system was introduced with Jellyfish Entertainment, The Music Works, MMO Entertainment, and 1877 Entertainment joining the system.[4]
In April 2014, CJ E&M Music launched a joint venture with Japan's Victor Entertainment, which was called CJ Victor Entertainment.[5]
In September 2015, CJ E&M Music acquired B2M Entertainment.[6]
In October 2015, CJ E&M Music signed a strategic partnership deal with the hip-hop label Hi-Lite Records.[7]
In January 2016, CJ E&M Music signed a strategic partnership deal with hip hop label AOMG.[8]
In 2017, CJ E&M Music established a new label named Stone Music Entertainment. The label began producing music for artists under CJ E&M Music, such as Wanna One, Davichi, and JBJ, and managed Idol School's winning group, Fromis 9.
In August 2017, CJ E&M Music established the High Up Entertainment joint venture with the production team Black Eyed Pilseung.[9] In the same month, CJ E&M acquired an additional 32% of Jellyfish Entertainment's shares, beyond the 19% of the label's shares previously acquired in 2013, effectively becoming the label's largest shareholder, with a total stake of 51%.[10]
In November 2017, CJ E&M Music acquired Amoeba Culture.[11]
In April 2018, Stone Music Entertainment was officially registered and CJ E&M later merged into Stone Music Entertainment in May 2018.
In June 2018, Stone Music Entertainment established the exclusive label Swing Entertainment for managing Wanna One since the latter ended their contract with YMC Entertainment, with Shin Dong-il (who is the former manager under YMC Entertainment) as the label head.
In August 2018, CJ E&M sold its 51% stake in High Up Entertainment back to Black Eyed Pilseung, making the former an independent company.
In September 2018, Stone Music Entertainment established the exclusive label Off The Record Entertainment for managing the Produce 48 winners, Iz*One, and Idol School winners Fromis 9.[12]
In October 2018, Genie Music acquired distribution rights to Stone Music Entertainment's releases in digital format after it merged with the latter's sister company, CJ Digital Music. The two companies will still release physical albums separately.[13]
On January 31, 2019, Stone Music Entertainment confirmed the establishment of an exclusive label, LM Entertainment for managing Kang Daniel and Yoon Ji-sung since February 1, following the ending of their contract with MMO Entertainment. The label is headed by Shin Dong-il, who also headed their former label Swing Entertainment during the time in which Wanna One was active.[14]
On April 20, 2021, Sport Kyunghang announced that CJ ENM applied to close Stone Music Entertainment from April 8. According to the news, CJ ENM stated that they are "working on reorganizing its sub-labels for efficiency."[15]
In May 2021, CJ ENM integrated their music label Stone Music, One Effect, Studio Blue, and Off Record with the launch of a new music label, Wake One Entertainment . The first artist TO1 were confirmed to be managed under the new label.[16]
Partnerships and Music distributions
[edit ]Labels and Investments[17]
- 143 Entertainment
- Biscuit Entertainment
- Blockberry Creative
- Swing Entertainment
- AOMG
- Amoeba Culture
- H1ghr Music
- HighUp Entertainment
- MNH Entertainment
- Wake One Entertainment
- Jellyfish Entertainment
Distribution[18]
- 143 Entertainment
- Ambition Musik
- Amoeba Culture (affiliate)
- AOMG (affiliate)
- Biscuit Entertainment
- Blockberry Creative
- BRD Entertainment
- Craft&Jun
- Dooroodooroo Artist Company
- Dorothy Company
- Feel Ghood Music
- H1ghr Music (affiliate)
- Hi-Lite Records (affiliate)
- Hybe Corporation
- Belift Lab (former affiliate)
- 1llionaire Records
- In Next Trend
- Jellyfish Entertainment
- Mapps Entertainment
- MNH Entertainment
- RBW
- Swing Entertainment
- Vismajor Company
- Wake One Entertainment
- WM Entertainment
- YNG & RICH Entertainment
- Ballin ' All Day
- Oui Entertainment
- KQ Entertainment (co-managed by E&M Division with KMP Holdings and Genie Music)
- Star Road Entertainment
- Mnet (for music program releases)
- tvN (for drama soundtrack albums)
- OCN (for drama soundtrack albums)
Former entities
[edit ]Recording artists
[edit ]- Bubble Sisters (2003–2005)
- Hong Jin-young (2006–2008)
- Kim Jong-kook
- SWAN (2007–2008)
- Lee Hyori (2006–2010)
- Ock Joo-hyun
- Yangpa
- Busker Busker (2011-2013)
- TimeZ (co-managed with Super Jet Entertainment)
- Yoo Seung-woo (2012–2015) (managed under sub label UK Muzik)
- Parc Jae-jung (2013–2015)
- Jung Joon-young (2013–2016)
- JJY Band (2015–2016)
- I.O.I (2016–2017/2019) (co-managed with YMC Entertainment and Studio Blu)
- Spica (2012–2017) (co-managed with B2M Entertainment)
- Emma Wu (2016–2017)
- Kevin Oh (2017)
- JBJ (2017–2018) (co-managed with Kakao M's Fave Entertainment)
- Wanna One (2017–2019/2022) (co-managed with Swing Entertainment)
- Lee Seokhoon (2015–2019)
- X1 (2019–2020) (co-managed with Swing Entertainment)[19]
- In2It (2017–2020) (co-managed with MMO Entertainment)[20]
- Kim Feel
- Hoons (co-managed with FRON+DESK)
- Heize (2017–2020) (co-managed with Studio Blu)[21]
- Son Ho-young
- Iz*One (2018–2021) (co-managed with Swing Entertainment)
- SG Wannabe
- Eric Nam
- Ash-B
- TSUN
- Nieah
- MAMAN
- Yoon Ji-sung (2019–2022)
- Truedy (2018–2021)
- Soovi (2019)
- $ammy (2019–2021)
- Song Su-woo (2021–2022)
Actors
[edit ]Subsidiaries
[edit ]- Core Contents Media (acquired by MBK Co., Ltd. as MBK Entertainment)
- Maroo Entertainment
Controversies
[edit ]Price manipulation
[edit ]CJ E&M Music (then Mnet Media) was one of the 15 companies fined and sued by the Korean FTC for price rigging in 2011.[22]
Plagiarism
[edit ]References
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- ^ "CJ E&M launches game distribution JV in Taiwan". Korea Times. 2012年09月13日. Archived from the original on 2019年05月17日. Retrieved 2014年04月16日.
- ^ "Winners from 'The 3rd GAON Chart Kpop Awards'!". Allkpop. 2014年02月12日. Archived from the original on 2016年03月04日. Retrieved 2014年04月16日.
- ^ "Jellyfish Entertainment, Music Works, MMO, and 1877 Become Label Companies Under CJ E&M". www.mnetamerica.com. Archived from the original on 2018年06月12日. Retrieved 2018年04月07日.
- ^ Herald, The Korea (28 April 2014). "CJ E&M, Victor Entertainment launch music joint venture". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
- ^ "CJ E&M "B2M과 전략적 제휴 체결, 매니지먼트·홍보 협력"". Archived from the original on 2018年06月14日. Retrieved 2017年12月08日.
- ^ "Daum 요청하신 페이지의 사용권한이 없습니다". m.media.daum.net. Archived from the original on 2016年01月25日. Retrieved 2016年01月08日.
- ^ "CJ E&M, 박재범·쌈디의 힙합 레이블 AOMG 인수". Archived from the original on 2016年03月04日. Retrieved 2016年01月07日.
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- ^ "젤리피쉬엔터테인먼트, 황세준 대표가 지분 처분". Archived from the original on 2021年05月14日. Retrieved 2017年12月12日.
- ^ "[단독]CJ E&M, 다듀·크러시 속한 아메바컬쳐 마저 품는다". Archived from the original on 2021年05月14日. Retrieved 2018年06月14日.
- ^ "오프더레코드 "오늘부터 아이즈원X프로미스나인 소속사, 전폭지원" [공식입장 전문]". Archived from the original on 2021年05月14日. Retrieved 2019年01月31日.
- ^ Genie Music poses threat to Melon by acquiring CJ Digital Music Archived 2018年10月23日 at the Wayback Machine (Jun Ji-hye, The Korea Times, 2018年10月09日)
- ^ "강다니엘·윤지성, Mmo→Lm 엔터로 변경..최선 다해 지원할 것[공식입장]". 2019年01月31日. Archived from the original on 2019年02月01日. Retrieved 2019年01月31日.
- ^ "CJ ENM Shuts Down Stone Music Entertainment". 2020年04月20日. Archived from the original on 2021年04月20日. Retrieved 2021年04月20日.
- ^ "TO1의 당찬 새 출발, 신곡 'Son of Beast' MV 티저 공개". 2021年05月18日. Retrieved 2021年05月18日.
- ^ "Cj Enm Entertainment Div". CJ ENM. Archived from the original on 2021年04月02日. Retrieved 2021年03月29日.
- ^ "Stonemusic". Stone Music Entertainment. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ "엑스원, 5개월만 결국 해체..."멤버·소속사간 전원 합의 안돼" [공식입장 전문]". entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2020年03月22日. Retrieved 2020年01月06日.
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- ^ "Korea's Fair Trade Commission fines 15 music distributors for collectively rigging prices". allkpop . March 1, 2011. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
External links
[edit ]- Broadcasting companies of South Korea
- CJ E&M Music Performance Division
- Electronic music record labels
- K-pop record labels
- Record label distributors
- Record labels established in 1994
- 2021 disestablishments in South Korea
- Synth-pop record labels
- South Korean record labels
- Talent agencies of South Korea
- Defunct record labels of South Korea