EMI

EMI was the label of UK company EMI Records.
After a hiatus, EMI was relaunched as a label by Universal Music Group in 2020, replacing Virgin EMI Records.
Label Code: LC 0542 / LC 00542.
EMI did not exist as a label until late January 1973 (the exception being a few Indian releases around 1969). See the example image of one of their own introductory ments. It should not be added as a label to any release before that date, aside from those Indian releases. Furthermore it should not be added as a label on any release with a primary branded label such as EMI Ltd. (EMI) and was not intended as a label.

Please note the seated Angel logo with the standard EMI classical red company logo above it as often seen in the 1980s, is the logo of Angel Records not EMI.

From 1996 until September 2012 the ultimate parent company / owner of all the EMI labels and companies was EMI Group Ltd. (EMI Group Plc.)

After that date Warner Music Group.

EMI was a major label and had a lot of sub and sister labels which also carry the EMI logo and manage its huge amount of releases all over the world.

The EMI country codes: In 1969 a new international system was introduced for EMI catalogue numbers. A five-digit prefix was added to the five-digit record number, separated by a hyphen. The first number and letter are a code for the country the record was made in or for. This usually corresponds with the country field on Discogs, but beware of instances where packaging bearing the original catalogue number was carried over unchanged in other countries, such as on This Is Shirley Bassey. Please enter this catalogue number against whichever label is branded on the release.

(C = Country, E = Europe, M = Music For Pleasure)
OC = UK (from April 1973)
0C = UK (from April 1973)
1A = Netherlands
1C =
1M = (for Music For Pleasure)
1E = UK (until April 1973)
1J = Spain (1969-1977)
2C =
2M = (for Music For Pleasure)
2S = (for Sonopresse)
2E = Austria
2J = Greece (until 1977)
3C = Italy
3E = Switzerland
4B = Belgium (for Best Seller releases)
4C = Belgium
4M = Belgium (for Music For Pleasure)
4E = Sweden
5C = Netherlands
5D = Netherlands (for Sunset 2 Super Pack releases)
5N = Netherlands (for Negram releases)
5E = Finland (until 1976)
6C = Denmark
6E = Denmark
7C = Sweden
7E = Norway
8C = Norway
8E = Portugal (until mid-1979)
9C = Finland (from 1976)
10C = Spain (from 1977)
11C = Portugal (from mid-1979)
12C = Austria
13C = Switzerland
14C = Greece (from 1977)
16C = Australia (unused on releases)
17C = New Zealand (unused on releases)
31C = Brazil
32C = Chile
33C = Mexico
82C = South Africa

For unofficial releases which use the EMI-logo and/or claim to be an EMI-release please use this label: EMI (2)!

Please ask in the forums if you are in doubt.