A EMI Class action occurs as major record label, based within Hammersmith in London, in the United Kingdom. By owning operations within ended Twenty-five more countries, EMI Class action is one of a Big Four record labels.

History
A Electric & Musical Industries Ltd formed around March 1931 from a merger of the UK Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company. Within 1955, to replace a loss of its long-established licensing arrangements by using RCA Victor and Columbia Records, EMI entered the Our contries market by getting 96% of the option of Capitol Records.

the company established subsidiary operations around a total of more countries in the British Commonwealth, including India, Australia and New Zealand. EMI's Australian & Future Zealand subsidiaries dominated a popular music industry inside people countries from either a Twenties until a Sixties, whenever more locally-owned labels (like Festival Records) began to challenge EMI's market near monopoly within victims regions.

Under a management of Sir Joseph Lockwood, during a late 1950s, Sixties & early Seventies a company enjoyed vast profits in the popular music field. A groups & solo creative person signed to EMI & its subsidary labels -- including Parlophone, HMV and Columbia Records (Australia) & Capitol Records -- made EMI the right-known and virtually all successful recording company in the globe at that instance, by using a roll that involved scores major popular acts of the time including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Hollies, Cilla Black and Pink Floyd.

Inside 1969, EMI established a recently subsidiary label, Harvest Records, which signed groups in the emerging progressive rock genre, including Pink Floyd.

Electrical & Musical Industries changed its name to EMI Ltd in 1971 and the subsidiary Gramophone Company became EMI Records Ltd in 1973. Within February 1979, EMI Ltd. acquired United Artists Records.

Around October 1979 THORN Electrical Industries Ltd. merged with EMI Ltd. to form Thorn EMI.

Within 1989 Thorn EMI bought a 50% interest within Chrysalis Records, buying the great 50% within 1991. Around one of its greatest-profile & virtually all expensive acquisitions, Thorn EMI took above Richard Branson's Virgin Records in 1992.

In August 16, 1996, Thorn EMI shareowner voted in favor demerger proposals. A sequent media company has since been known per title EMI Class action PLC.

Under a control of Sir Louis Sterling, EMI opened the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, England in November 1931.

Labels under the EMI banner
Apple Records (distribution) Astralwerks (owned by Virgin) BEC Recordings Blue Note Capitol Records The China Record Co. (China) Chrysalis Records DFA Records Electrola (Germany) EMI Christian Music Group EMI Films EMI Gospel EMI Latin Food Records (distributed by Parlophone) Forefront Records GramCo (India) Harvest Records Heavenly Recordings His Master's Voice Hut Records (owned by Virgin) Mosaic Records (50% owned through Capitol) Mute Records Narada Productions Odeon Records Parlophone Path Orient (China) Pathé Records Pomaton EMI Positiva RAK Records Real World Regal Zonophone Records Reliquias (contains music from a old Odeón) S-Curve Records (licensing and distribution) SBK Songs Siren Records (owned by Virgin) Sparrow Records Sixsteps Records 10 Records (owned by Virgin) Toshiba-EMI (Japan) Virgin Records Worship Together

Musicians signed, or previously signed, to EMI
A musicians could keep around been signed under one of EMI's subsidiary labels. A subsidiary is noted next to the creative person in outbreak this is the case.

Pre-1960
Nat King Cole Tennessee Ernie Ford Wanda Jackson The Kingston Trio Dean Martin Frank Sinatra Gene Vincent

1960s
The Animals The Beach Boys (Capitol) The Beatles (Parlophone) Cilla Black Joe Cocker The Dave Clark Five Gerry and the Pacemakers (Columbia) Herman's Hermits The Hollies Billy J. Kramer Manfred Mann The Move Peter and Gordon Cliff Richard Roger Whittaker The Yardbirds (Columbia)

1970s–Present
22-20s (Heavenly) Alfie (Regal) The Arrows (RAK) Athlete (Regal) Auf der Maur Leif Ove Andsnes Beastie Boys (Parlophone / Capitol) The Beta Band (Regal) Black Dice (DFA Records) Blur (Food/Parlophone) David Bowie (EMI America / Virgin) Kate Bush John Cale Kim Carnes The Chemical Brothers (Virgin) Chingy (Parlophone / Capitol) Chumbawamba Marillion Joe Cocker (Parlophone) Coldplay (Parlophone) The Concretes Graham Coxon (Parlophone) The Dandy Warhols (Parlophone / Capitol) The Departure (Parlophone) Dirty Vegas (Parlophone) The Divine Comedy (Parlophone) Doves (Heavenly) Dr. John (Parlophone) The Duke Spirit (Heavenly) Duran Duran Sheena Easton Erasure (Mute Records) Faith Evans Neil Finn (Parlophone) Fischerspooner Michael Franti and Spearhead (Parlophone) David Gilmour Gorillaz (Parlophone) Adrian Gurvitz (RAK) Ed Harcourt (Heavenly) George Harrison (Parlophone) Heart (Capitol) Hot Chocolate (RAK) Idlewild (Parlophone) Iron Maiden J. Geils Band Jane's Addiction (Parlophone / Capitol) Jay Sean (Relentless) Norah Jones (Parlophone) Junior Senior Keren Ann Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Real World) King Biscuit Time (Regal) The Knack Beverly Knight (Parlophone) Kraftwerk LCD Soundsystem The Magic Numbers (Heavenly) Paul McCartney (Parlophone / Capitol) George Michael Kylie Minogue (Parlophone) The Music (Hut) Pet Shop Boys (Parlophone) Pink Floyd (Harvest) Beth Orton (Heavenly) Maxi Priest (Relentless) Suzi Quatro (RAK) Queen (Parlophone) Radiohead (Parlophone) Red Hot Chili Peppers Kenny Rogers (Liberty) Roll Deep (Relentless) The Rolling Stones (Virgin) Bob Seger (Capitol) Sigur Rós Sparklehorse (Parlophone) Starsailor Steriogram Joss Stone (Relentless) Supergrass (Parlophone) Telepopmusik KT Tunstall (Relentless) Van Hunt Vodka Collins (EMI-Toshiba) Robbie Williams

Metallic elastic in EMI in a period of the 1980s included:

Great White W.A.S.P. (Capitol) Iron Maiden

A Sex Pistols were briefly signed to the label from October 8, 1976 to January 27, 1977 in a relationship that was fraught by using contestation, & that experienced lasting repercussions for the history of the music industry. Inside a gesture of revenge, the Sex Handgun added to their foremost album (freed in Virgin Records), Never Mind the Bollocks, a song entitled "EMI" insulting a company. Virgaround was acquired by EMI in 1992.

Within 2001, pop diva Mariah Carey was signed to Virgin in the very much hyped, multi-album treat reportedly worth the record-breaking $80-$100 million. Fallowing her 1st album in the treat, Glitter, performed poorly, she was paid $28 million to leave the label. Along by owning the approximated $20 million advance she received, this is the greatest total a record label has ever paid an creative person for one album.