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Ai (EMI Records/EMI Records Japan/EMI Music Japan) Airbourne; Aleesia (EMI/A-Lista) Alfie (Regal) All-4-One; Andy Lau (1985 - 1989 move to PolyGram Hongkong in 1990) Ahmad Zahir; Ilham al-Madfai; Lily Allen (Regal/Parlophone/Capitol) Alpha Galates; A-mei (EMI Music Taiwan) Namie Amuro (EMI Music Japan, left in 1995) Anahí; Andra & The Backbone ...
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 1923 as the Parlophone Company Limited (the Parlophone Co. Ltd.), which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a jazz record label.
Universal Music has continued to operate EMI entities it retained using the EMI name and formed Virgin EMI Records as a UMG label unit in the UK. [72] The former EMI Records Ltd. was renamed Parlophone Records Ltd. in 2013, [73] when Warner Music Group acquired Parlophone Music Group which has the rights to the old EMI Records catalogue.
EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.It was originally founded as a British flagship label by the music company EMI in 1972, and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone record labels.
Because Parlophone Records Ltd. absorbed the catalogues of EMI Records UK, Roulette Records, the Columbia Graphophone Company (EMI Columbia), His Master's Voice, non-U.S. former artists of Harvest Records and some European divisions of EMI Music (with new reissues bearing the Parlophone label), only artists whose recordings were originally ...
EMI's German unit in 1931 was originally called "Lindström-Electrola" after the merger. Okeh became part of the American operations of Columbia Records. Parlophone became a major powerhouse in the EMI portfolio of labels thanks to the company's signing in 1962 of The Beatles.
EMI decided to reserve the HMV label for classical repertoire and had transferred HMV's remaining pop acts to Columbia and Parlophone by 1967. [21] EMI began to replace the Columbia label with the eponymous EMI Records in January 1973. [22] [23] The last Columbia single was issued in 1989. [24]
2kSounds; Columbia Graphophone Company (EMI's Columbia Records, outside the United States, until the 1980s); Ministry of Sound Australia (Australian subsidiary of Ministry of Sound, now operating independently with distribution handled by Universal Music Australia)