Talk:EMI Records

EMI Music vs. EMI Records On the EMI page it states that it is an English music company comprising the major record label, EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing. Shouldn't this EMI Records be renamed to EMI Music to reflect that article?warpozio 08:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I corrected the EMI article so that EMI Music is referred to as a record company comprising several labels. Steelbeard1 12:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

EMI Records Ltd.

EMI Records Ltd. was founded by EMI in 1957 as the record manufacturing and distribution subsidiary of EMI as shown at [1]. But EMI as a record label did not exist until 1972. Steelbeard1 (talk) 11:25, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

You are confusing E.M.I. Records Ltd with EMI Records Ltd. The former was founded in 1957. The latter was the renamed The Gramophone Co. Ltd. in 1973. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snig27 (talk • contribs) 02:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Please see on where EMI Records Ltd. came from. Also http://www.discogs.com/label/274008-EMI-Records-Limited and http://www.discogs.com/label/63404-EMI-Records-Ltd are correct. The 1957 date in that Billboard article is also suspect as 1956 releases exist with E.M.I. Records Limited mentioned. I suspect it was created late that year and Billboard was running the story late (out of Capitol sources it seems - so indirect). Either way EMI Records Ltd. was not created in 1957, it was created in 1973. E.M.I. Records Limited was created in the 1950s. They are distinct entities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snig27 (talk • contribs) 05:46, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

This article is about the EMI Records label which was formed in 1973. The EMI Records company (aka E.M.I. Records) is the subject of the EMI article. Steelbeard1 (talk) 11:51, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

You are still confusing companies. EMI Records Limited was not created in 1957 for a start, E.M.I. Records Limited was. They are NOT the same thing. The EMI Records label company was EMI Records Ltd, NOT E.M.I. Records as you state. EMI Records Ltd. was The Gramophone Co. Ltd. renamed on 1 July 1973 (see that companies office link). EMI Records Ltd. also absorbed the manufacturing and distribution company E.M.I. Records Limited (the one formed in 1957 - actually late 1956 I think) later in July 1973 as part of the restructuring of the group. E.M.I. Records Limited is relevant as a) it was until 1965 the administrative entity that oversaw the companies that became EMI Records Limited, and b) manufactured and distributed all The Gramophone Co. Ltd. and EMI Records Ltd. releases until it was folded into EMI Records Ltd. That article was full of errors I'm afraid - it probably needs a big rewrite at some stage. --Snig27 (talk) 15:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Just a postscript to that - I know that page was created with limited data but a load of research has gone into this label and the associated companies in recent years and it has been worked through. I have internal EMi documents as an example which support much of this. However things like EMI being the successor to just Columbia are inexact - it absorbed all the The Gramophone Co. Ltd. pop labels outside the US. The three exceptions were The Beatles as they stayed on Apple (with Parlophone cat #s although their contract was with The Gramophone Co. Ltd. / EMI Records Ltd.), some acts on Harvest, and some Odeon releases in Europe and South America. His Master's Voice was kept as a classical only label. Parlophone was revived under the EMI Records Ltd umbrella in 1980. As an aside EMI never called the label EMI Records - they were quite firm on that, but I guess it's too late to fix that. Cheers --Snig27 (talk) 16:08, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

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EMI Records label absorbed by Parlophone

The EMI Records label was part of EMI Records Ltd. But the name of the company was changed to Parlophone Records Ltd. because of the forced spinoff of certain EMI assets which were sold to Warner Music Group. Universal Music kept the EMI trade mark which is why the name was changed. See [2]. Steelbeard1 (talk) 11:03, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

The EMI name was assigned to Virgin EMI Records. Steelbeard1 (talk) 17:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)