EMI
From Your Subculture Soundtrack, the music encyclopedia
| This article is a Stub. You can help out by expanding this article |
Headquarters: London, UK
Founded: 1931
Founded by: A merger between the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company
Link: Official Site
Genre(s):
Contents |
[edit] Active Roster
- 22-20s
- Auf der Maur
- Beastie Boys
- The Beta Band
- Black Dice
- Blur
- David Bowie
- Kate Bush
- John Cale
- Kim Carnes
- The Chemical Brothers
- Chingy
- Marillion
- Coldplay
- Graham Coxon
- The Dandy Warhols
- Dirty Vegas
- The Divine Comedy
- Doves
- Duran Duran
- Sheena Easton
- Enigma
- Erasure
- Faith Evans
- Neil Finn
- Fischerspooner
- David Gilmour
- Gorillaz
- Ed Harcourt
- Heart
- Idlewild
- Iron Maiden
- J. Geils Band
- Norah Jones
- Junior Senior
- Keren Ann
- King Biscuit Time
- The Knack
- Beverly Knight
- Kraftwerk
- LCD Soundsystem
- The Magic Numbers
- Paul McCartney
- George Michael
- Kylie Minogue
- The Music
- Pet Shop Boys
- Beth Orton
- Maxi Priest
- Suzi Quatro
- Queen
- Radiohead
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Kenny Rogers
- Roll Deep
- The Rolling Stones
- Bob Seger
- Sigur Rós
- Sparklehorse
- Starsailor
- Steriogram
- Joss Stone
- Supergrass
- Telepopmusik
- KT Tunstall
- Van Hunt
- Robbie Williams
[edit] Inactive Roster
- Nat King Cole
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- The Kingston Trio
- Dean Martin
- Frank Sinatra
- Gene Vincent
- The Animals
- The Beach Boys
- The Beatles
- Cilla Black
- Joe Cocker
- Deep Purple
- Herman's Hermits
- The Hollies
- Cliff Richard
- Roger Whittaker
- The Yardbirds
- Pink Floyd
- Jane's Addiction
- Hot Chocolate
- Chumbawamba
- George Harrison
[edit] Key Releases
Too many to list
[edit] Biography
One of the big four labels, EMI has abosrbed many, many labels. It was started in 1931 from a merger between two other record companies. In the 1950s, they bought Capitol. A list of the labels they own is:
- Apple
- Astralwerks
- BEC
- Blue Note
- Capitol
- Chrysalis
- DFA
- Food
- Forefront
- Harvest
- Heavenly
- HMV
- Hut
- Mosaic
- Mute
- Narada
- Odeón
- Parlophone
- Pathé
- Pomaton EMI
- Positiva
- RAK
- Real World
- Regal Zonophone
- Reliquias
- S-Curve
- SBK Songs
- Siren
- Sparrow
- Sixsteps
- 10
- Virgin
