- List of artists signed to EMI
The musicians may have been signed under one of EMI's subsidiary labels. The subsidiary is noted next to the artist if this is the case.
Popular
Pre-1960
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Ricky Nelson (Capitol)
*Nat King Cole (Capitol)
*Bobby Darin (Capitol)
*Tennessee Ernie Ford (Capitol)
*Judy Garland (Capitol)
*Wanda Jackson (Capitol)
*The Kingston Trio (Capitol)
*Dean Martin (Capitol)
*Liza Minnelli (Capitol/Angel)
*Dinah Shore (Capitol)
*Frank Sinatra (Capitol, left in 1961)
*Gene Vincent (Capitol)1960s *
The Band (Capitol)
*The Beach Boys (Capitol)
*The Beatles (Parlophone/EMI/Capitol)
*Pink Floyd (Tower/Harvest/EMI/Capitol/Columbia)
=1970s –Present=*
22-20s (Heavenly)
*Lollipop (EMI Capitol Taiwan)
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*Airbourne
*Air Traffic (Tiny Consumer)
*Alfie (Regal)
*Aleks Syntek
*Lily Allen (Regal/Parlophone/Capitol)
*McFly (Super)
*All-4-One
*Alpha Galates
*Amei (EMI Music Taiwan)
*Angus & Julia Stone (EMI Australia/Flock UK)
*Leif Ove Andsnes
*Timothy Hodge
*Keren Ann
*Adam Ant
*The Arrows (RAK)
*Richard Ashcroft (Hut/Virgin)
*A Taste of Honey (Capitol)
*Art Brut (Mute)
*Athlete (Regal)
*Auf der Maur
*Australian Crawl
*Melanie B (Virgin) (dropped in 2001)
*The Barracudas
*Beastie Boys (Parlophone / Capitol)
*Bebe
*Victoria Beckham (Virgin) (dropped in 2002)
*The Be Be See (EMI Records)
*Belinda (Capitol)
*The Beta Band (Regal)
*King Biscuit Time (Regal)
*Black Dice (DFA Records)
*Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Virgin) (left in 2004)
*Black Sabbath (I.R.S./EMI)
*Blue (boy band) (Innocent/Virgin)
*Blue Mink (Regal Zonophone)
*Blur (Food/Parlophone)
*David Bowie (Virgin)
*Lisa Brokop (Capitol, left in 1996)
*Garth Brooks (Capitol / Liberty / Parlophone)
*Meredith Brooks (Capitol) (left in 1999)
*Brotherhood of Man (1982 - 83)
*James Brown
*Jean Michel Jarre (since August, 2007)
*Emma Bunton (Virgin) (dropped in 2002)
*Fito Paez (left and are now with Warner and Sony-Bmg)
*Burning Spear
*Kate Bush
*Melanie C (Virgin) (left in 2003)
*John Cale
*Captain (EMI Records)
*Mariah Carey (Virgin) (2001-2002)
*Carpark North
*Kim Carnes
*Ruben Chacon (Capitol)
*Camper Van Beethoven (Virgin America)
*The Chemical Brothers (Virgin)
*Chingy (Parlophone / Capitol) (Left in 2007)
*Chumbawamba (EMI)
*Joe Cocker (Parlophone)
*Coldplay (Parlophone)
*Vodka Collins
*The Colour (Rethink)
*The Concretes (Astralwerks)
*Elvis Costello
*Graham Coxon (Parlophone)
*Crowded House (Capitol)
*Myriam Montemayor Cruz
*Daft Punk
*The Dandy Warhols (Parlophone / Capitol)
*David Tao (EMI Music Taiwan)
*The Decemberists (Capitol)
*The Departure (Parlophone)
*Depeche Mode (Mute)
*Dirty Vegas (Parlophone)
*The Divine Comedy (Parlophone)
*Doves (Heavenly)
*Dubstar (Food)
*The Duke Spirit (Heavenly)
*Duran Duran (Harvest/Capitol/EMI)
*Sheena Easton
*Electric Light Orchestra (Harvest)
*Empire (Parlaphone)
*Enigma (Virgin)
*Erasure (Mute)
*Eternal (dropped in 2000)
*Everclear (Capitol) (left in 2004)
*Faith Evans (Captiol)
*Faker (Capitol)
*Falco
*Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Real World)
*Kevin Federline
*Fey (EMI-Televisa / Capitol)
*Neil Finn (Parlophone)
*Fischerspooner
*The Flowers (EMI Music China)
*Foo Fighters (Capitol, left in 1999)
*Michael Franti and Spearhead (Parlophone)
*J. Geils Band
*The Generators Orlando, Florida version
*David Gilmour (EMI/Columbia)
*Gary Glitter
*Goldfrapp (Mute)
* Gouge (EMI, Robyn Godfrey-Cass signing in 1996, 5 album deal, after leaving inde label Fluffy Bunny)
*Diego Gonzalez
*Gorillaz (Parlophone)
*Edyta Gorniak (since 1996, dropped in 2002, since then: Virgin, dropped in 2004)
*Grand Funk Railroad (Capitol)
*Amy Grant (EMI Christian Group, signed in 2007 after leaving Warner/Word)
*Adrian Gurvitz (RAK)
*Geri Halliwell (Capitol, then later Virgin/Innocent, Halliwell completed her 3 album contract in 2005)
*Ed Harcourt (Heavenly)
*George Harrison (Parlophone)
*Richard Hawley (Mute)
*Heart (Capitol)
*Heroes del Silencio
*Hot Chip
*Hot Chocolate (RAK)
*Houston (singer) (Capitol)
* Hurt
*Ice Cube (Lench Mob Records)
*Idlewild (Parlophone, left in 2005)
*Interpol (Capitol)/Parlophone (UK)
*Iron Maiden (EMI)
*Janet Jackson (Virgin, Completed contract and left in 2006)
*Duncan James (Innocent/Virgin)
*Jane's Addiction (Parlophone / Capitol)
*Matthew Jay
*Dr. John (Parlophone)
*Norah Jones (Parlophone)
*Jolin Tsai (Capitol Music Taiwan)
*Junior Senior
*Junoon
*Justin Lo (Gold Label)
*Laura Michelle Kelly (Angel)
*Kary Ng (Gold Label)
*Kenna
*Kings of Convenience
*The Knack (Capitol)
*Beverley Knight (Parlophone)
*Jordan Knight
*Korn (Virgin)
*Kraftwerk (EMI/Capitol, since 1975 - Astralwerks, US - as of 2001)
*Kudai (Capitol)
*Cristy Lane
*Marit Larsen
*LCD Soundsystem
*Leo Ku (Gold Label)
*LeToya (Noontime/Capitol)
*Alex Lloyd (left in 2004)
*Louise (left in December 2001)
*Mae (Capitol)
*The Magic Numbers (Heavenly)
*Maids of Gravity (Virgin/Vernon Yard)
*Die Mannequin
*Marillion
*Marinella
*Richard Marx
*Willy Mason (Astralwerks)
*Keiko Matsui (Narada)
*Paul McCartney (Parlophone / Capitol)
*George Michael (Virgin)
*Mina
*Kylie Minogue (Parlophone)
*Mandy Moore (The Firm Music)
*Bob Mould (Virgin America)
*Morrissey (His Master's Voice / Parlophone)
*Mud (RAK)
*Róisín Murphy
*The Music (Hut)
*Naast
*Nachlader
*Nicholas Teo (Virgin Music Chinese, Taiwan Branch)
*Nine Times Bodyweight
*Operator Please (Virgin)
*Orbital (EMI, one album)
*Salmonella Dub (EMI New Zealand 1994-)
*Stacie Orrico (Virgin)
*Beth Orton (1996-2005 Heavenly, 2005-)
*Otep (Capitol)
*Sarina Paris (EMI Italy)
*Pet Shop Boys (Parlophone/EMI)
*Prefab Sprout (EMI Liberty, 2001-)
*Maxi Priest (Relentless)
*Los Prisioneros
*Suzi Quatro (RAK)
*Queen (Parlophone/Hollywood Records)
*Queensrÿche (EMI) (left in 1997)
*Radar
*Radiohead (Parlophone/Capitol) (Contract Finished as of 2003)
*Corinne Bailey Rae
*Raining Pleasure (Capitol/Blue Note)
*RBD
*Red Hot Chili Peppers (left and are now with Warner)
*Relient K (Capitol/Gotee)
*R.E.M. (I.R.S./EMI) (left in 1988)
*Kenny Rogers (Liberty)
*Roll Deep (Relentless)
*The Rolling Stones (Virgin) (left in 2008)
*Stanley Huang (Virgin Music Chinese / Capitol Music Taiwan)
*Stephy Tang (Gold Label)
*Sigur Rós
*Roxette
*Röyksopp
*Ruslana
*Deric Ruttan (EMI Canada)
*Lee Ryan (Virgin)
*Jay Sean (Relentless)
*Bob Seger (Capitol)
*Selena (Capitol)
*The Sex Pistols (September 1976 - December 1976) (Virgin/EMI)
*Shazza
*S.H.E. (EMI Music China)
*Show Luo (Capitol Music Taiwan)
*The Sleepy Jackson (Capitol)
*The Smashing Pumpkins (Caroline/Virgin/Hut, finished contract obligations in 2001 with their "Rotten Apples" release, signed with Reprise Records in 2007)
*The Stranglers
*The Sonic Hearts
*Sparklehorse (Parlophone)
*Spice Girls (Virgin)
*Starsailor
*Stefanie Sun (Capitol Music Taiwan)
*Steriogram
*Joss Stone (Relentless)
*Supergrass (Parlophone)
*Talk Talk (Parlophone)
*Tamta
*The Tea Party
*Telepopmusik
*Thalía (Virgin)
*This World Fair (Rethink)
*Trina (Slip-N-Slide/DP Entertainment)
*Troy Ave. (EMI/Capital)
*Richard Thompson (Capitol)
*KT Tunstall (Relentless)
*Grzegorz Turnau (Zaiks/BIEM) (Poland)
*Legião Urbana
*Hikaru Utada
*Van Hunt
*The Verve (Virgin)
*Vincent Vincent and the Villains
*The Vines
*Simon Webbe (Innocent/Virgin)
*The White Stripes
*Matt White
*Robbie Williams (Chrysalis/EMI)
*Wizzard (Harvest)
*Faye Wong
*Roy Wood (Harvest)
*XX Teens (Mute)
*Bertine Zetlitz
*Toys
*Grand Avenue
*Toxic Kompulsion
*Watershed (South African Band) (EMI South Africa)
*Prime Circle (EMI South Africa)
* WC (Lench Mob Records)Heavy-Metal bands on EMI during the
1980s included:*
Exodus (band) (Capitol)
*Great White
*Iron Maiden (EMI/Capitol, currently on Sanctuary/Columbia in NA)
*Manowar (left after two weeks)
*Poison (band) (Capitol)
*Queensrÿche (EMI)
*W.A.S.P. (Capitol)
*Whitesnake (EMI Records, outside USA/Canada)Classical
Classical musicians exclusively or chiefly associated with EMI (on
EMI Classics , Angel, HMV and/or Columbia labels)*
Roberto Alagna
*Leif Ove Andsnes
*Agustin Anievas
*Olaf Bär
*Sir John Barbirolli
*Sir Thomas Beecham
*Ian Bostridge
*Sir Adrian Boult
*Dennis Brain
*Maria Callas
*Nazzareno Carusi
*Enrico Caruso
*Jacqueline du Pré
*Sir Edward Elgar
*Mariss Jansons
*Herbert von Karajan (notably in the 1950s)
*Rudolf Kempe
*Nigel Kennedy
*Otto Klemperer
*Dinu Lipatti
*Yehudi Menuhin
*Sabine Meyer
*Riccardo Muti
*Antonio Pappano
*Itzhak Perlman
*Sir Simon Rattle
*Wolfgang Sawallisch
*Artur Schnabel
*Maxim Vengerov
*Sir William Walton
*Franz Welser-Most
*Elizabeth Marvelly ee also
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*List of EMI labels
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