Record Label Research

EMI Music groups parent company is the EMI group and was established in 1972 in the UK and has divisions in recording and publishing.

History:

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It’s the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it a member of the RIAA & IFPI. Electric and Musical Industries Ltd was formed in March 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company, with its "His Master's Voice" record label, firms that have a history extending back to the beginning of recorded sound. The new vertically integrated business produced sound recordings as well as recording and playback utensils.

Artists:

• Kraftwerk  
• Queen
•  Olivia Newton-John
•  Iron Maiden
•  Kate Bush
•  Sheena Easton
•  Robbie Williams
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers

History:

Warner Bros. Records was initially established in 1958 as the recorded music division of the American movie studio Warner Bros. Pictures. For the majority of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The series of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its associated labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world.

In 2003 these music assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner and bought by a private equity group. This independent company currently trades as the Warner Music Group (WMG), of which Warner Bros. Records is still an active label. WMG is currently the third-largest of the four major international music conglomerates and the world's only publicly traded major music company. The group's widespread publishing assets, which include over one million song copyrights by more than 65,000 songwriters, currently make it the world's largest music publisher.

Artists:

-Linkin Park

-Avenged Sevenfold

-Built to Spill

-DEVO

-Disturbed

 

History