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About EMI

EMI is one of the world's leading music companies, home to some of the most successful and bestknown recording artists, songwriters and music catalogues.Through our own companies and network of licensees, we are able to serve our artists, writers andconsumers all over the world.EMI has two operational divisions -

EMI Music

and

EMI Music Publishing

EMI Music

EMI Music brings artists and fans together by driving action and creating value wherever music isexperienced. To do this most effectively it is divided into three business units:

New Music, Catalogue

and

Music Services

New Music

finds and develops new, exciting and successful music. Its record labels include Angel,Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Nashville, EMI Classics, EMI CMG, EMI Records, EMITelevisa Music, Manhattan, Mute, Parlophone and Virgin. Artists on EMI labels include Lily Allen, TheBeatles, Beastie Boys, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Doves, Gorillaz, Iron Maiden, Norah Jones, MassiveAttack, Kylie Minogue, Katy Perry, Pink Floyd, Queen, Sir Simon Rattle, 30 Seconds To Mars, KTTunstall, Keith Urban and Robbie Williams, as well as international artists such as Amaral (Spain),Camille (France), Empire of the Sun (Australia), Tiziano Ferro (Italy), Flex (Mexico), LaFee (Germany)and Utada Hikaru (Japan).

Catalogue

maximises the value of EMI's historic and extensive music assets. Seminal albums in EMIMusic's catalogue include Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane (David Bowie), Revolver and Sgt. Pepper'sLonely 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 TheMoon and The Wall (Pink Floyd), A Night At The Opera (Queen), OK Computer (Radiohead) andSongs For Swingin' Lovers (Frank Sinatra). EMI Music's Catalogue division also owns and runs theworld-renowned recording studios Abbey Road in London and Capitol Studios in Los Angeles.

Music Services'

mission is to provide EMI's roster of artists - as well as independent labels andartists - with a global menu of commercial services and seamless access to an expanding range of revenue streams and business models. It is focused on delivering revenues to EMI's artists, as well asto the independent label and artist community, and is the industry's only one-stop shop for accessinga global marketplace of traditional and non-traditional commercial partners. Music Services povesfocus and solid execution can provide unique value to EMI's roster and associated artists in keyfunctions like licensing, synch and distribution.

EMI Music Publishing

Music publishing is the business of acquiring, protecting, administering and exploiting therights in musical compositions. It is a business based on the songs themselves, as distinctfrom the recordings in which those songs are performed. Every commercial use of a musicalcomposition requires a license and compensation to the songwriter and his or her publisher.The music publisher's role is to assure that the works it represents are used commercially, andto then ensure that proper remuneration is received in consideration for that use.EMI Music Publishing is the world's most creative music publisher, with one of the bestcollections of musical compositions and songwriters ever assembled. Active songwritersinclude James Blunt, the Arctic Monkeys, Alicia Keys, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, Hinder,Kanye West, Beyonce, Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z, Nelly Furtado, Norah Jones and NatashaBedingfield. Among the iconic songs in the EMI Music Publishing catalogue are BohemianRhapsody, New York New York, You've Got A Friend, The James Bond Theme, LadyMarmalade, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Always On My Mind, Over The Rainbow, IHeard It Through The Grapevine and Singin' In the Rain. Our publishing catalogues include

SBK (CBS Songs, MGM and United Artists), Filmtrax (Columbia Pictures & Television),Screen Gems, Virgin, Jobete (Motown) and Windswept PacificFor more information on EMI Music Publishing, their writers and catalogue, please visitwww.emimusicpub.com

Innovation

EMI traces its history back to thevery beginnings of recorded sound and music as one of our original companies was founded by the inventor of the gramophone, Emile Berliner.Since then EMI has always been at the forefront of technology and change. EMI scientists inventedstereo recording and were closely involved in the development of magnetic tape. They were alsobehind the birth of electrical television and radar.Given our heritage of innovation, when digital music began to take off in the 1990s, EMI was wellplaced to respond to the new trends. EMI Music's first websites went live in 1993 and 1994 and in1998 EMI streamed the first complete album over the internet, Mezzanine by Massive Attack. Thefollowing year EMI was the first company to release a digital album download, David Bowie's …Hours.EMI also launched the first internet video single in 2001. In 2007 EMI became the first major musiccompany to make its music available without digital rights management (DRM) software.Today EMI Music has agreements with hundreds of digital partners to distribute our music across theglobe, covering a huge variety of digital music business models and ideas.

Ownership

In 2007 EMI was acquired by leading private equity partnershipTerra Firma, making EMI the onlyprivately-owned major music company.

Useful links

To see how record labels and music publishers fit into the music industry clickhere.For a history of EMI please visitthis areaof our site.For information on working at EMI please go to our careers page

Social responsibility

As a music company we are very fortunate to work with an art form that has such a positive effect onso many people and contributes so much to communities all around the world.At EMI we want our company to have positive impact through the way we manage our business andthe wider role we play in society. Within our own operations, we work hard to understand theexpectations of different stakeholders and demonstrate responsible business practices.

Issues that affect our employees and their families, our local communities and our industrydrive a culture of charitable giving by EMI and its staff. Our business units around the worldare free to make their own community investment decisions so that company resources can beappropriately matched with the local need.Within EMI's framework for community giving we often focus on the issues of youth andmusic as we believe sharing our knowledge and skills can make a meaningful difference toyoung people. One of our best known initiatives in this area is the EMI Music SoundFoundation which was established by EMI in 1997 and has since become the largest single