Music Labels:

EMI Music brings artists and fans together by driving action and creating value wherever music is experienced. Its record labels include Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Latin, Capitol Nashville, EMI Classics, EMI CMG, EMI Records, EMI Records Nashville, Manhattan, Mute, Parlophone and Virgin.

EMI Music’s catalogue include ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and ‘Aladdin Sane’ (David Bowie), ‘Revolver’ and ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band’ (The Beatles), ‘Pet Sounds’ (Beach Boys), ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’ (Coldplay), ‘Birth Of The Cool’ (Miles Davis), ‘Come Away With Me’ (Norah Jones), ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ (Pink Floyd), ‘A Night At The Opera’ (Queen), ‘OK Computer’ (Radiohead) and ‘Songs For Swingin’ Lovers’ (Frank Sinatra). EMI also owns and runs the world-renowned recording studios Abbey Road in London and Capital Studios in Los Angeles.

EMI Music provides EMI’s roster of artists – as well as independent labels and artists – with a global menu of commercial services and seamless access to an expanding range of revenue streams and business models, ranging from areas such as digital and physical distribution, sales, promotion and marketing to licensing, synch, brand partnerships and merchandising. In 2007 EMI was acquired by leading private equity partnership Terra Firma, making EMI the only privately-owned major music company.

Sony Music Entertainment UK is part of one of the largest music and entertainment companies in the world. It has a broad array of local artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalogue comprising of some of the most important recordings in history.

In the UK we organised our frontline music companies in 2006 into the RCA and Columbia Label Groups, and in March 2007 also announced a third frontline label, Epic. These three main music companies also release music from many other famous music labels, among them; Jive, Zomba, J Records, 1965 Recordings, Syco Entertainment and Phonogenic. Sony Music Enterainment is 100% owned by Sony Corporation of America.

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world’s leading music company and is comprised of two core businesses: recorded music and music publishing. The company discovers, develops, markets and distributes recorded music through a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and licensees in 77 countries, representing 98% of the music market. UMG also sells and distributes music video and DVD products, and licenses recordings, encouraging the legal distribution of music online and over cellular, cable and satellite networks.

UMG includes Universal Music Latin Entertainment, the world’s leading Latin music company. UMG's music publishing company, Universal Music Publishing Group, is the world's leading publishing business; it owns and acquires rights to musical compositions and licenses them for use in recordings and related uses, such as films and advertisements. UMG also includes Bravado, its merchandising company, and Twenty-First Artists, its full service management division. Universal Music Group International is the division that manages UMG's businesses in countries outside of North America.

Virgin is a leading branded venture capital organisation and is one of the world's most recognised and respected brands. Conceived in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson, the Virgin Group has gone on to grow very successful businesses in sectors ranging from mobile telephony to transportation, travel, financial services, media, music and fitness.

Virgin has created more than 300 branded companies worldwide, employing approximately 50,000 people, in 30 countries. Global branded revenues in 2009 exceeded £11.5 billion (approx. US$18 billion).