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Universal Records (Philippines)

Filipino record label

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3544661 ↗
Source-derived summary

Universal Records Philippines, Inc. is a Philippine record label founded in 1977 as part of Warner Music Group. It has been an independent label since 1992.

The label is currently a member of the Philippine Association of the Record Industry.

History

URPI was founded in 1977 as WEA Records Philippines Inc. The company was the licensee of WEA in the Philippines for 15 years. Nevertheless, the company decided to set up its own office, the forerunner of what is now Warner Music Philippines.

in 1992, the company adopted a new name, Universal Records Philippines Inc. and has since risen to become one of the best and biggest record labels in the Philippines.

Universal Records officially distributed K-pop albums beginning in September 2009, followed by several J-pop albums announced in late May 2011.

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“Universal Records (Philippines)” enters the record as filipino record label. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Universal, Records and Philippines can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1992, 2009, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Universal, Records and Philippines.
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“Universal Records (Philippines)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Universal, Records and Philippines provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3544661. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 1992, 2009 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Universal Records (Philippines)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.