Arista Records

Arista Records ( ARR-ist-ə) is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a division of Sony Music Group, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. The label was previously a division of Columbia Pictures and later Bertelsmann Music Group, the North American division of German conglomerate Bertelsmann. Founded in November 1974 by Clive Davis and deactivated in 2011, Arista was re-established in 2018. Along with RCA Records, Columbia Records, and Epic Records, it is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels.