About EMI

EMI is one of the world's leading music companies, home to some of the most successful and best
known recording artists, songwriters and music catalogues.

Through our own companies and network of licensees, we are able to serve our artists, writers and
consumers 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 is
experienced. 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, EMI
Televisa Music, Manhattan, Mute, Parlophone and Virgin. Artists on EMI labels include Lily Allen, The
Beatles, Beastie Boys, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Doves, Gorillaz, Iron Maiden, Norah Jones, Massive
Attack, Kylie Minogue, Katy Perry, Pink Floyd, Queen, Sir Simon Rattle, 30 Seconds To Mars, KT
Tunstall, 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 EMI
Music's catalogue include Hunky Dory 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 and The Wall (Pink Floyd), A Night At The Opera (Queen), OK Computer (Radiohead) and
Songs For Swingin' Lovers (Frank Sinatra). EMI Music's Catalogue division also owns and runs the
world-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 and
artists - 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 as
to the independent label and artist community, and is the industry's only one-stop shop for accessing
a global marketplace of traditional and non-traditional commercial partners. Music Services poves
focus and solid execution can provide unique value to EMI's roster and associated artists in key
functions like licensing, synch and distribution.

EMI Music Publishing

Music publishing is the business of acquiring, protecting, administering and exploiting the
rights in musical compositions. It is a business based on the songs themselves, as distinct
from the recordings in which those songs are performed. Every commercial use of a musical
composition 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, and
to 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 best
collections of musical compositions and songwriters ever assembled. Active songwriters
include James Blunt, the Arctic Monkeys, Alicia Keys, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, Hinder,
Kanye West, Beyonce, Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z, Nelly Furtado, Norah Jones and Natasha
Bedingfield. Among the iconic songs in the EMI Music Publishing catalogue are Bohemian
Rhapsody, New York New York, You've Got A Friend, The James Bond Theme, Lady
Marmalade, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Always On My Mind, Over The Rainbow, I
Heard 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 Pacific

For more information on EMI Music Publishing, their writers and catalogue, please visit
www.emimusicpub.com

Innovation

EMI traces its history back to the very 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 invented
stereo recording and were closely involved in the development of magnetic tape. They were also
behind the birth of electrical television and radar.

Given our heritage of innovation, when digital music began to take off in the 1990s, EMI was well
placed to respond to the new trends. EMI Music's first websites went live in 1993 and 1994 and in
1998 EMI streamed the first complete album over the internet, Mezzanine by Massive Attack. The
following 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 music
company 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 the
globe, covering a huge variety of digital music business models and ideas.

Ownership

In 2007 EMI was acquired by leading private equity partnership Terra Firma, making EMI the only
privately-owned major music company.

Useful links

To see how record labels and music publishers fit into the music industry click here.

For a history of EMI please visit this area of 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 on
so 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 and
the wider role we play in society. Within our own operations, we work hard to understand the
expectations of different stakeholders and demonstrate responsible business practices.

Issues that affect our employees and their families, our local communities and our industry
drive a culture of charitable giving by EMI and its staff. Our business units around the world
are free to make their own community investment decisions so that company resources can be
appropriately matched with the local need.

Within EMI's framework for community giving we often focus on the issues of youth and
music as we believe sharing our knowledge and skills can make a meaningful difference to
young people. One of our best known initiatives in this area is the EMI Music Sound
Foundation which was established by EMI in 1997 and has since become the largest single
sponsor of specialist performing arts colleges. To find out more about EMI MSF please visit
www.emimusicsoundfoundation.com.
Emily West takes part in Lollipop Theater Network's "Rhythm Of Hope"
music programme
Capitol Nashville's Emily West took part in Lollipop Theater Network's Rhythm of Hope
event last week at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville. Rhythm of
Hope is an interactive music program for pediatric patients that gives children a chance to
create their own songs while learning the building blocks of music. After getting to meet and
visit with all the children Emily and the kids performed the song they created together at the
end of the day.
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EMI music group was formed in 1931 when Gramophone Company merges with
Columbia Graphophone to form Electric and Musical Industries (EMI 2007). EMI
started with operations in nineteen countries and has eventually grown to
operations in over fifty countries. EMI has the rights to over one musical
composition. Of the five major music companies, EMI has the least market share
in the Unites States. This market share may now be in jeopardy as Universal
Records has decided to decrease the price of its CD's in an effort to generate
sales. EMI must determine what they would gain or lose by dropping or not
dropping their retail price for CD's and the price charged to retailers.

Case Facts
The recording industry is highly competitive with its profits based in its ability to
attract and retain artist who sell hit records. Advertising, promotion and publicity
for its artist are central elements in a music company's marketing program and
they represent a sizeable amount of the company's costs. Universal has more
market share because it has more hit artist and a larger music catalog than any
other music recording company. Because of these facts, Universal is susceptible
to the most losses. Universal made the decision to slash its CD prices in the US
by up to 31.5 percent in the US, not to increase market share but to persuade
consumers to start buying CD's again (Universal, 2003). Since the advent of new
technology allowing consumers to obtain music in non-traditional means, actual
CD sales in the US had been on a decline since 2000 (Kerin, 2007). In fact, four of
the major five record companies reported losses in the first half of 2003.
Universal is considered a heavy hitter US with a market share of 29.4% while EMI
ranks in the bottom of the five major record labels with a mere 9.8% of US
market share. EMI was the only company that did not report losses the...