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Also known as EMI Music, EMI (United Kingdom), EMI Records, EMI Records Limited, EMI Records Ltd., EMI Records, Ltd., EMI Records Inc.
discográfica británica
OverviewAI-generated
EMI, also known as Electric and Musical Industries, EMI Group Limited, EMI Music, and EMI Records, was a company and funder based in Stockport, United Kingdom. The organization was established in 1931 and operated until its dissolution in 2012. It employed 15,000 people and maintained a social media following of 7,340,000.
The entity has been associated with various inception dates, including 1928-03-29, 1931-01-01, 1931-03-31, and 1973-01-01, and was active during 1985. Its official website is listed as part of the Universal Music Group label directory. The organization is referenced by 10,448 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.fate
- Broken up: EMI Music Publishing acquired by a consortium led by Sony Music Publishing comprising Sony Corporation of America The estate of Michael Jackson Mubadala Development Company PJSC Jynwel Capital Limited The Blackstone Group's GSO Capital Partners LP David Geffen(later wholly owned by and absorbed into Sony/ATV) Warner Music Group acquired Parlophone, Chrysalis Records (UK artists and Ramones catalogue until 2016), EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, 2CD Originals Series and EMI's Belgian, Czech/Slovak, Danish, French, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish operations (including Russian EMI partner SBA/Gala and Chinese EMI partner Gold Typhoon) Universal Music Group acquired Capitol Records, Virgin Records, The Blue Note Label Group, Positiva Records and most of the international operations amongst the bulk. BMG Rights Management acquired Mute Records and Virgin Music Publishing Blue Raincoat Music (parent since 2019 is Reservoir Media Management) in 2016 acquired the Chrysalis British catalogue (except 3 artists and Ramones)
- Company.predecessors
- Columbia Graphophone CompanyGramophone CompanyThorn EMI
- Company.location
- Westminster
- Company.location_city
- London
- Company.location_country
- England, United Kingdom
- Company.key_people
- Founding CEO Lenard John Brown Roger Faxon (Former CEO) Ruth Prior (Former CFO)
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.industry
- Music
- Company.revenue
- £1.072 billion (2009)$1.65 billion (2009)
- Company.operating_income
- £163 million (2009)(EMI Music)£135 million (2009)(EMI Music Publishing)
- Company.num_employees
- 5,500 (2008)
- Company.name
- EMI Group Limited
- Company.logo
- 200px
- Company.image
- Emi_building.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- EMI's former building in London, since owned by Warner Music UK
- Company.former_names
- Electric and Musical Industries Ltd. (1931–1971)EMI Ltd. (1971–1979)Thorn EMI PLC (1979–1996)EMI Group PLC (1996–2007)
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.traded_as
- LSE: EMI (until 2007)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1931
- Location
- Stockport, United Kingdom
- Also known as
- EMI Group Limited, EMI Music, EMI Records, Electric and Musical Industries
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.480108.5
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- record label
- Part of
- major label
- Official name
- EMI Records Limited
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- London
- Owned by
- Vivendi
- Employees
- 15000
- Legal form
- private company limited by shares
- Followed by
- Virgin EMI Records
- Official website
- www.universalmusic.com/label/emi
- Image
- Emi building.jpg
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- Commons category
- EMI Music
- topic's main category
- Category:EMI
- inception
- 1973-01-01
- location of formation
- London
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2012-01-01
- different from
- EMI
- social media followers
- 7180000
- floruit
- 1985-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Español
EMI fue una compañía discográfica multinacional que comprendía al sello EMI Music, con sede en y a EMI Music Publishing, con sede en Charing Cross Road, ambas en la ciudad de Londres, Inglaterra. EMI Music fue uno de los cuatro grandes sellos discográficos del mundo y EMI Music Publishing fue el mayor productor musical del mundo. En febrero de 2011 el sello pasó a manos del banco estadounidense Citigroup, que a su vez lo vendería 9 meses más tarde al conglomerado francés Vivendi, fusión con la cual se incorpora a Universal Music Group. Citigroup vendió la compañía en dos partes: el productor fonográfico EMI Music Group y la editorial EMI Music Publishing. Aunque la discográfica fue adquirida por Vivendi, operó por un tiempo de manera independiente de Universal Music y actualmente es una división más de esta compañía. No así el caso de la editorial, que fue absorbida de manera inmediata por .
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