EMI Music.
EMI Group Limited stands for Electric and Musical Industries and was a British multinational music recording and publishing company, It was established in March 1931 by a merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company. It's revenue reached 1.072 billion in 2009 and was one of the 'Big Four' music labels until it was broken up in 2012, primarily by Universal Music Group. Some of it's subsidiaries included Capitol Records and Virgin Records. EMI administered the publishing rights of over 1.3 million songs, controlling the libraries of some of the most successful artists on the planet including Beyonce, Jay-Z, the Black Eyed Peas, Avicii and My Chemical Romance. Below is an example of a music video, featuring Kylie Minogue, produced by Parlophone, who, at the time, were owned by EMI.
