Careers music publisher mess-up

I found a lot of entries relating to this publisher, some of which need some attention. Hopefully you can help me to sort them out.

1. These seem valid and unique – it seems Careers was bought by BMG and later merged into Universal:
Universal Music-Careers

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2. These appear to combine two or more publishers:
ADO Careers-BMG Music Pub., Inc
[Invalid Label])]
Sony/ATV Milene Careers

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3. These contain typos and need to be invalidated:
Wolfsongs-Carrers

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4. Lastly:
Careers BMG Music Publishing Co.

Whaddya think?

Bumping for opinions. Please help!

This is a more complex one, but if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. Inviting zevulon

The usual mess with publishers and their associations anywhere on this planet. I do not know what to say, I'll this one.

andrenafulva
[Invalid Label])]

You missed one here.

As far as I can tell, the proposal looks OK. Teh typos are obvious.

Given there are some valid combinations, it would probably be a good idea to run the names from category 2 through Songview or worldradiohistory to see if they might not be valid after all.

andrenafulva
two or more publishers

Yeah, split. Except I don't think Number 23 is a publisher (misread perhaps).

rdvriese
Teh typos are obvious.

Indeed.

andrenafulva
Whaddya think?

+1 Fix all as best able.

TopCats45s
+1 Fix all as best able.

Same, +1

I'm not going to voice an opinion on 1) as I'm usually diametrically opposed to Discogs' way of handling Publishers anyway.

2) A check of ASCAP and BMI showed that these indeed all all compound publishers.
Arista Careers Music: ASCAP = Arista Music Inc. and BMI = Careers Music Inc.
Gibb Brothers Music Careers: Full text of 1st release reads "Gibb Brothers Music Careers BMG Music Publishing (BMI)", which translates to BMI = Gibb Brothers Music and BMI = Careers BMG Music Publishing.
Bassdog Music-Careers: ASCAP = Bass Dog Music
Number 23 Songs Careers: ASCAP = Number 23 Songs Music
Sony/ATV Milene Careers: ASCAP = Milene Music Inc.

andrenafulva
3. These contain typos and need to be invalidated:

+1

andrenafulva
4. Lastly:

Release 1 = very likely. Release 2 = anything is possible, no idea.

andrenafulva
2. These appear to combine two or more publishers

+1 for splitting those where it’s feasible. The ADO and MCA names might be too ambiguous to split.

andrenafulva
3. These contain typos and need to be invalidated

+1

Marked the typo profiles as invalid and added redirects, cleared out Wolfsongs-Carrers and Careers Nusic, Inc.

rdvriese
Teh typos are obvious

Quote of the month, thanks for the smile!

@1

andrenafulva

Careers-BMG Music Pub.
Careers-BMG Music Publishing
and
BMG-Careers Music Inc.
Careers-BMG Music, Inc.

look the same, no?

@2
that is too complex for the little time I have at the moment, sorry

@3
should all be invalidated

andrenafulva
2. These appear to combine two or more publishers:

+1

TopCats45s
Except I don't think Number 23 is a publisher

Should be this one: Number 23 Songs Music

andrenafulva
3. These contain typos and need to be invalidated:

+1

andrenafulva
Songs Careers-BMG Songs – I'm pretty sure this is a typo

+1

andrenafulva
Careers-Bug Music Publishing Corp. is also either a typo (Bug for BMG) or a combination of Careers with Bug Music Publishing

Hard to know for sure.
I tend to believe it's BMG... but tried searching for clues, couldn't find anything.
If I can read it right, it's for 8 Miles and Runnin' by Jay-Z -> https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/title/8%20Miles%20And%20Runnin'?at=true&searchFilter=SVW&page=1
No mention of Career or BMG or Bug (but I could be researching the wrong track, as it's very hard to read.)

andrenafulva
Careers-BMG Music Pub.
Careers-BMG Music Publishing

These can be merged.
Luckily Careers-BMG Music Pub. just contains an orphaned release.

marcelrecords
Quote of the month, thanks for the smile!

Best part is, I had a typo in "obvious" too, doubted for a moment whether it was worth correcting, did so and still overlooked the other typo.

I'm going along with the flow :)

Bumping before this gets locked.