EMI: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 21:47 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the original European 2-LP of Kate Bush – Aerial (EMI 0946 3 43960 1 1, 2005), a barcode family/aerial-kate-bush names. Identity, sleeve text, credits, tracklist, runouts from Discogs release 58. This is the current version.

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# EMI <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: EMI
summary: British record label launched by EMI in January 1973 as the label of EMI Records Ltd, owned by Universal Music Group since the 2012 break-up of EMI and relaunched by it in 2020.
founded: 1973
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                        | market | from | until | ended | status  | source            | note                                                                                                                                                      |
| ---------- | ----------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| imprint_of | company/parlophone-records    |        | 1973 |       | true  | sourced | ^discogs-emi      | Discogs: "EMI was the label of UK company EMI Records Ltd."; that company took the name Parlophone Records Limited in 2013 and went to Warner Music Group |
| owned_by   | company/universal-music-group |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^wiki-emi-records | Wikipedia describes EMI Records as a British record label owned by Universal Music Group, revived in June 2020 as the successor to Virgin EMI             |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name        | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------- | ---- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| EMI Records | name |        |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref              | url                                       | title                    | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator             | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-emi-records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_Records | Wikipedia: EMI Records   | 2026-09-26 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           | lead                | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| discogs-emi      | https://api.discogs.com/labels/26126      | Discogs label 26126: EMI | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue   |           | 26126     | profile, label code | CC0          |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
EMI is a British record label founded by the music company EMI in 1972 and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone labels, later used worldwide.[^wiki-emi-records] It was the label of the UK company EMI Records Ltd., whose label code is LC 0542.[^discogs-emi] Universal Music Group owns the label; in June 2020 it revived EMI as the successor to Virgin EMI, with Virgin Records operating as an imprint of EMI Records.[^wiki-emi-records]
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