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EMI

defunct British music recording and publishing company
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Summary

EMI is a business[1]. EMI ranks in the top 0.98% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,826 views/month, #290 of 29,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United Kingdom[3], United States[4], FR[5], MX[6], US[7], IT[8]
  • Instance of: privately held company[9], record company[10], holding company[11], record label[12]
  • Owned by: Vivendi[13]
  • Follows: Associated British Picture Corporation[14]
  • Followed by: EMI Music Publishing Ltd.[15], Virgin EMI Records[16]
  • Headquarters location: London[17]
  • Has organizational division: EMI United Kingdom[18], EMI[19], EMI Chrysalis[20], EMI USA[21]
  • Child organization or unit: Toshiba EMI Ltd.[22], EMI Music Japan[23], Poko Rekords[24], Chrysalis Records Ltd.[25], EMI Pathé Marconi S.A.[26], EMI Records[27], Carl Lindström A.G.[28], Norske Gram[29]
  • Part of: major label[30]
  • Commons category: EMI Music[31]
  • Industry: music industry[32], consumer electronics industry[33], phonographic industry[34], media industry[35]
  • Said to be the same as: EMI Group Limited[36]
  • Inception: March 31, 1931[37], January 1, 1931[38], March 29, 1928[39], January 1, 1973[40], 2016-11-10[41], 2012-04-17[42], 1980-03-31[43], 2024-03-25[44], 2008-11-28[45]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: January 1, 2012[46]
  • Location of formation: London[47]
  • Parent organization or unit: Universal Music Group[48], Sony (United Kingdom)[49], Warner Music Group[50]
  • Official website: http://www.universalmusic.com/label/emi/[51]
  • Topic's main category: Category:EMI[52]
  • Employees: 15,000[53]
  • Floruit: 1985[54]
  • Replaced by: Parlophone Records Ltd.[55]
  • Official name: EMI Records Limited[56]
  • Legal form: public limited company[57], private company limited by shares[58], MQU9[59], 7H63[60], BTQ1[61], OV32[62], V9QP[63]
  • Owner of: Solid State Records[64], Priority Records[65], Music Choice[66]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 969500LTCQ4F5UJCAG20[67]

  • Registered legal name: E.M.I.[68]

  • Legal jurisdiction: FR[69]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[70]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): V9QP[71]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[72]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[73]

  • Entity created: 2008-11-28[74]

  • LEI first registered: 2018-11-22[75]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-07-17[76]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-07-02[77]

  • Managing LOU: 969500Q2MA9VBQ8BG884[78]

  • Registration authority: RA000189[79]

  • Authority entity ID: 509495628[80]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[81]

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Holding[82]

  • Country: GB[83]

  • Began / founded: 1973-07-01[84]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2013-06-01[85]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 618a22b7-308f-49a5-bceb-3368e0d25768[86]

Why It Matters

EMI has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[87] EMI is known by 79 alternative names across languages and contexts.[88]

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [67] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [68] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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Class ancestry

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [87] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [88] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Hannolans · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has works in the collection → National Museum Paleis het Loo, Groninger Museum
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has works in the collection: Groninger Museum, groninger museum ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/c5a6d992c4b|details]])"
  2. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → EF85-C4CF-C3EE-9F4C-D3CF
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: EF85-C4CF-C3EE-9F4C-D3CF, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  3. 9w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → disney-2:EMI, youtube:Emimusic
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Fandom article id: youtube:Emimusic, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/111007403|Emimusic (#111007403)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4339|YouTube Fandom"
  4. 10w ago · Xeroctic · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tv tropes id → Creator/EMI
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Tv tropes id: Creator/EMI"
  5. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isni → 0000000405025178, 000000010093264X
    Part of → major label
    Has organizational division → EMI United Kingdom, EMI, EMI Chrysalis +1
    Said to be the same as → EMI Group Limited
    + 40 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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