EMI Electrola: version 1

Saved 2026-09-14 03:08 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added Falco's posthumous album *Out of the Dark (Into the Light)* (CD, Electrola, cat. 7243 4 94469 2 2), a wanted barcode from the 2008 Barcodepedia page. Identity from MusicBrainz release b9f2330b (. This is the current version.

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# EMI Electrola <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: EMI Electrola
legal_name: EMI Electrola GmbH
country: DE
founded: 1972
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name               | type  | locale | from | until |
| ------------------ | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| EMI Electrola GmbH | legal |        | 1972 | 2002  |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref                 | url                                                                                                    | title                                                        | accessed   | publisher  | kind        | published | record_id | locator                  | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-label       | https://api.discogs.com/labels/917                                                                     | Discogs label 917: EMI Electrola                             | 2026-09-14 | Discogs    | catalogue   |           | 917       | Profile and parent label |              |             |          |
| wikipedia-electrola | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrola                                                                | Electrola                                                    | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia  | publication |           |           |                          | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| wikipedia-de        | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrola                                                                | Electrola (German Wikipedia)                                 | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia  | publication |           |           | Geschichte               | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| northdata           | https://www.northdata.com/EMI+Music+Germany+GmbH+%26+Co.+KG,+K%C3%B6ln/Amtsgericht+K%C3%B6ln+HRA+15434 | North Data: EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG, Köln, HRA 15434 | 2026-09-14 | North Data | registry    |           | HRA 15434 |                          |              |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
EMI Electrola GmbH was EMI's German record company, established in 1972 according to Discogs, whose "EMI Electrola" trademark it used on German pressings until 2002.[^discogs-label] German Wikipedia records that the Carl Lindström company was merged into EMI Electrola GmbH on 30 November 1972 and that EMI Electrola was renamed EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG in spring 2002.[^wikipedia-de] North Data lists EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG, formerly EMI Electrola GmbH & Co. KG, at the Cologne district court under HRA 15434 as dissolved; whether that partnership and the GmbH named in ℗ lines are one entity was not confirmed, so no register number is recorded here.[^northdata] EMI's German operations were sold to Universal Music Group in 2012.[^wikipedia-electrola]
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