CBS Records International

CBS Records International was the international releasing division of Columbia Records, active from 1962 until 1991. The division was founded by Columbia to release its products outside the United States and Canada while avoiding confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company, which operated in every market except North America, Spain and Japan.
Columbia's then-owner CBS Inc., under the leadership of Laurence Tisch, sold this division to Sony Corporation for $2 billion on November 17, 1987 with the sale's completion on January 5, 1988. They later retained the CBS name for music recordings but granted Sony a temporary license to use the CBS name until the music company was renamed Sony Music Entertainment on January 1, 1991.
==1962–1991==
==1970–1991==
==1972–1990==
Category:Columbia Records
Category:Music
Category:Sony Music Entertainment
Category:Sony
Category:CBS
Category:Defunct
Category:Defunct record labels
Category:1962
Category:1991
Category:Paramount Global