I am probably too tired to make sense of the other post, but I’ll try.
All I generally see is “Star Song Communications” are the company who own the copyright. They then seem to use other names like “Star Song” and “Star Song Records” to handle manufacturing, publishing, etc. But unlike EMI they are just a small outfit. All run from the same office. So I think it is reasonable to keep these all in the same entity. Just making use of Aliases.
It would help me if you would point to a few more example of actual releases to look at. Reading legal stuff from Google searches \ Billboard is a bit too out of context for me. The printed word in Billboard, etc can make errors. So maybe they means “Star Song” but said “Star Song Records”. This is why I like looking at CD cases.
Star Song Music (Capitol CMG Label Group) - I think that is another version of the Star Song EMI Imprint. (Capitol is EMI) I would merge your newly created imprint into that. That is the EMI version for all the post 1998 stuff. Click on the Discogs link and you will see how they describe it, and also keep it separate to the original Star Song.
Note the Star Song Music had a 1993 release, which is clearly the earlier Star Song. I’ve updated details with Discogs and moved it to the older label.
There are other items in this thread that need merging I think…
I would merge:
Star Song Communications, Star Song Records into Star Song.
I would call it “Star Song (Star Song Communications 1974-1998)”
I would merge Star Song into Star Song Music.
Why these merges? Just look at them, they are clearly the same as the Cat Numbers all fit together. Just different variations of how the name is quoted.
When looking at all of these labels, look at the catalogue numbers. It is clear that anything post-1998 should be move to the EMI Imprint version of the label.
From your understanding of the music, does this make sense? I see this as numbers and names, but have zero knowledge of the music. I see the patterns of the details that tell me they want to be together.
(I’ll update this edit after eating dinner. Need food to think better)