HMV: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 19:47 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the 2023 HMV-exclusive 1921 Centenary Edition mono double LP of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde (Columbia/Legacy 19658807911, orange & black marbled vinyl), completing a barcode named by family/blo. This is the current version.

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# HMV <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: HMV
disambiguation: British music and entertainment retailer founded in London in 1921; not the His Master's Voice record label
summary: British music, film and entertainment retailer founded in London in 1921; its UK shops have been operated by Sunrise Records since February 2019, with Hilco Capital retaining the HMV brand.
wikidata: Q10854572
country: GB
website: https://hmv.com/
founded: 1921
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## References <!--references-->
| ref      | url                               | title          | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator | licence      | attribution | upstream |
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| wiki-hmv | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMV | Wikipedia: HMV | 2026-09-26 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
HMV is a music and entertainment retailer founded in London in 1921, when the Gramophone Company opened the first His Master's Voice shop at 363 Oxford Street.[^wiki-hmv] The brand is owned by Hilco Capital and the shops are operated by the Canadian retailer Sunrise Records, except in Japan, where Lawson owns and operates HMV.[^wiki-hmv]

Its retail operations were divested from EMI in 1998 to form what became HMV Group plc. After falling into administration, HMV was bought by Hilco in April 2013; after a second administration, Sunrise Records took over 100 of its 127 shops in February 2019, with Hilco keeping the brand.[^wiki-hmv] Under Sunrise, HMV returned to Ireland in 2023 and announced openings in Belgium and the Netherlands.[^wiki-hmv]
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