PolyGram был создан компанией Philips в 1972 путём слияния [[Polydor]] с [[Phonogram International]]<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.ru/books?id=BWUil8OuXS8C&pg=PA175&dq=polygram+universal+music+group+philips&hl=en&sa=X&ei=q0OuUvnyLeTG4gTK_YDADA&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA|title=The Music Business and Recording Industry: Delivering ...Music in the 21st Century|author=Geoffrey P. Hull, Thomas William Hutchison, Richard Strasser|year=2011}}</ref>.
В 1998 Philips продал PolyGram за 104 миллиарда долларов тогдашнему владельцу [[Universal Music Group]] компании по производству безалкогольных напитков [[Seagram]]<ref>{{cite book|url=httpshttp://wwwbooks.google.ru/searchbooks?qid=polygram+univversal+music+group+philipsVnbB62PSUWEC&sourceidpg=ie7PA15&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=&gws_rd=cr&ei=jUOuUu7mAsfX4AT7noHgBA#newwindow=1&qdq=polygram+universal+music+group+philips&rlshl=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&startsa=X&ei=10e02uUuf4HIeh4gTOvICIDw&tbmved=bks0CCkQ6AEwADgK|title=Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business: Why So Much ...Music You Hear Sucks|authourauthor=Hank Bordowitz}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=httpshttp://wwwbooks.google.ru/searchbooks?qid=AhLwEqh8xlkC&pg=PT225&dq=polygram+univversaluniversal+music+group+philips&sourceidhl=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&iesa=X&oeei=ZU2uUve7IYeh4gTOvICIDw&gws_rdved=cr&ei=jUOuUu7mAsfX4AT7noHgBA0CFkQ6AEwCTgK#newwindowv=1onepage&q=polygram+universal+music+group+philips&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&start=10%20universal%20music%20group%20philips&tbmf=bksfalse|title=Where Have All the Good Times Gone?|author=Louis Bafle}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=httpshttp://wwwbooks.google.ru/searchbooks?qid=polygram+univversal+music+group+philips3ihOEMbFdXYC&sourceidpg=ie7PA116&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=&gws_rd=cr&ei=jUOuUu7mAsfX4AT7noHgBA#newwindow=1&qdq=polygram+universal+music+group+philips&rlshl=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&startsa=X&ei=10OU6uUuG_HIeJ4gSBtIDwDA&tbmved=bks0CFIQ6AEwCDgK|title=Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics ...|author=Ronald V. Bettig, Jeanne Lynn Hall}}</ref>), которая в следующем же году объединила его и ещё несколько лейблов в [[Universal Music Group]]<ref>{{cite book|url=httpshttp://wwwbooks.google.ru/searchbooks?qid=0tz5YpijuksC&pg=PA634&dq=polygram+univversaluniversal+music+group+philips&sourceidhl=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=&gws_rdsa=crX&ei=jUOuUu7mAsfX4AT7noHgBA#newwindow=1&q=polygram+universal+music+group+philips&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBoxp06uUqSyFceR4ATGpYHICQ&tbmved=bks0CC4Q6AEwAQ|title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Volume 1... Media, Industry and Society|author=John Shepherd, David Horn, Peter Wicke|year=2003}}</ref>.
