- [Update: Sources are now suggesting that Sony has done the deal. Led by Doug Morris, we are told the purchase price was in the region of $17m.]

- independent German record label founded 1988

- focused in Metal / Hard Rock groups

- has introduced bands such as In This Moment, Lacuna Coil, Moonspell, Nevermore, Shadows Fall, Suicide Silence and Winds of Plague.

- The company is apparently valued somewhere between $15m and $20m, and has more than 50 staff across the US and Europe.

- Century’s family also includes Magic Arts Publishing, Lonely Planet Publishing, Inside Out Music, Super Ball, Rock The Nation America and other merchandise and management subsidiaries.

- If Century is bought by Sony, it will be the biggest major label acquisition since UMG snapped up music movie and TV programme maker Eagle Rock in April last year.

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/is-this-the-next-big-major-label-acquisition/

Sony expanding their music business.

that's interesting, though I'm sure it's nothing more than Sony buying an already profitable label.

Paradise Lost, Deicide, Iced Earth, Sick Of It All, and one of my favorite bands of all time.....Celtic Frost.

Hope Sony is good to them and lets them run stuff as they did so far, they introduced and supported so many great bands over the decades.

Now I want Singstar - Century Media Edition

Good to see they are indeed investing in their profitable branches as they said.

Cool they give allnthe money from plus subscribers to expand their bussinesses and not to make the existing better thanx sony

Sounds like a good purchase.

So Sony moneyhat musics industry now? They sure have some nerves!

Hope Sony takes care of them, like a lot of bands on that label.

they bought a small label, well done... there snt much money to be made with such a label...
if they real wanted to go big they would have bought nuclear blast those guys are on fire right now with the comeback of great old bands and sabaton still on the rise.

Never heard of any of those bands an im a metal head lol