In February 2010, EMI Group reported pre-tax losses of £ 1. 75 billion for the year ended March 2009, including write-downs on the value of its music catalogue.

In 1957, RCA ended its 55-year association with EMI and signed a distribution deal with Decca Records, which caused EMI to purchase Capitol Records.

" With the recent release of her album Lunada, the 36-year-old singer ended her contract with EMI Music, who recognized that the album was not successful as it was not well promoted since it coincided with the months after her pregnancy when she contracted Lyme disease.

Although associated for much of her career with Star Song Communications, EMI switched her to Sparrow Records in 1996, before her contract ended after 2003.

During the mid 1970s, many of these production deals ended and, despite a few sporadic releases by Blue Mink, Geordie and Dave Edmunds, eventually EMI ceased to use the imprint as a major pop label.

Blink's inclusion on a CD for a trade festival in New York generated a positive review, which ended with the band signing with EMI for their debut release.

Lucky did not match the performance of Balin on the Billboard charts, and Balin's contract with EMI ended.

IME ended up being signed to EMI in Canada, and Capitol for the U. S. and internationally.

IME itself ended up in disputes with both EMI and the band's management ( Capitol had inexplicably dropped the band prior ), and subsequently broke ties with both.

EMI Films also owned Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England ; Cannon ended up purchasing the studio as well, but later sold it to Brent Walker Group plc in 1988.

Dillon ’ s musical career began at age 13, recording an independent album ( Vulnerable ) that ended up in the hands of EMI executive Brad O ’ Donnell.

In April 1980, the track " Crying ” from the album began picking up airplay on Dutch radio stations and McLean was called to Europe to appear on several important musical variety shows to plug the song and support its release as a single by EMI.

In 1980, Rodney left Island Records, and set up the Burning Spear label, which he signed to EMI, debuting on the label with Hail H. I. M., recorded at Marley's Tuff Gong studio and co-produced by Aston Barrett.

After parting company with EMI they were picked up by Sanctuary Records in the UK and with them released their fourth studio album, sixth overall, Welcome to Poppy's ( 2003 ).

In classical music, Decca had a long way to go from its modest beginnings to catch up with the established HMV and Columbia labels ( later merged as EMI ).

In both the UK and the US Decca took up the LP promptly and enthusiastically, in 1949, giving the British arm an enormous advantage over EMI, which for some years tried to stick exclusively to the old format, thereby forfeiting competitive advantage to Decca, both artistically and financially.

As of January 6, 2009, all 4 big music studios ( Warner Bros., Sony BMG, Universal, and EMI ) have signed up to remove the DRM from their tracks, at no extra cost.

By the time " Plan B " was released, the band were in dispute with EMI, claiming that as their contract option had not been picked up by the company, they were no longer under contract, and they asked, without success, that EMI not release the single.

Having delivered Our Secrets Are the Same to Chrysalis, Simple Minds then found themselves caught up in record company politics while Chrysalis, EMI and other companies attempted to merge with each other.

* EMI demonstrate electronic television, with up to 3 times as many lines as Baird's mechanical system, to the BBC.

A new album would not appear until 1991 when, after several rumors about the band's breaking up, they released Pink Bubbles Go Ape for their new record company, EMI.

As the British music scene was heating up in 1963, Capitol, being an EMI label had first rights of refusal on all EMI artists.

Rabid would build artists up with a few punk singles, and then license them to bigger labels ( Jilted John to EMI, Slaughter & The Dogs to Decca, John Cooper Clarke to CBS ).

Harrison put the whole property up as collateral in order to fund the Monty Python comedy team's movie Life of Brian after their original backers, EMI, pulled out at the last minute.

In November 1982 she left Thames, but remained as Chief Executive at Euston until leaving in November of the following year to take up her first post in the film industry, as Director of Production for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment.

These big companies were often reluctant to make changes to their recording and production processes — for example, EMI was very slow in taking up innovations in multi-track recording and they did not install 8-track recorders in their Abbey Road Studios until the late 1960s, more than a decade after the first commercial 8-track recorders were installed by American independent studios.

The early 1990s were taken up with a battle against EMI.

This was over unpaid royalties stemming back to a deal EMI set up with Motown subsidiary Rare Earth in 1968.

EMI, AOL / Time Warner and Bertelsmann Music Group teamed up with MusicNet.

Most of the Hall's events take place in the indoor auditorium where the programme of events ranges from jazz, ballet, comedy and opera, to world and roots music, West End musicals and classical music, featuring the world famous Philharmonia Orchestra, which was set up by EMI and has been resident at the hall since 1997.

Dave Godin is generally credited with being the first UK entrepreneur to start this trend, setting up the Soul City label in 1968, and striking a deal with EMI to license Gene Chandler's 1965 recording " Nothing Can Stop Me ", which had been popular for several years at the Twisted Wheel.

The band followed up with Home of the Brave in 1994 with Jerry Harrison serving as producer, and a move from EMI to Mercury Records in 1996 followed with the release of Green Suede Shoes.

The album's release moved from February to June ; then in August the release was further held up as Easton's attorneys asked, that the album be delayed after EMI Records was absorbed into EMI / Manhattan.

He went on to become a household name in New Zealand in 1975, with the release by Clarke ( as Dagg ) of two singles with EMI, " Traditional Air "/" Unlabelled ", and " We Don't Know How Lucky We Are "/" Larry Loves Barry ", with the latter making it to number 17 on the national music single charts.

EMI Music Japan, the Japanese EMI branch, remains unchanged from the reflection of Toshiba's divestiture to the business by EMI buying the whole branch way back July 2007, making it a full subsidiary.

After leaving his home country Silvestri made Paris his domicile in 1959, also travelling to Australia that year, and appearing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra in 1960-61, and making a number of recordings in Paris, London and Vienna for EMI.

Over the course of Ozawa's tenure, the BSO diversified its relationships making recordings under Ozawa with CBS, EMI, Philips Records, RCA, and TELARC.

One EMI executive praised the music but described " the business challenge of making everyone believe " in it.

During the making of Spirit of Eden, Talk Talk manager Keith Aspden had attempted to free the band from their recording contract with EMI.

All 100 albums had been recorded with the same record label, EMI, making Dusty the very first music artist in the world to record 100 albums with the same label.

Deke Arlon became her first manager, and Easton spent much of 1980 being followed by camera crews, who filmed her throughout the process of making her first EMI single, " Modern Girl ".

In the pre-war years, Legge pioneered " subscription " recordings, by which the public were invited to pay in advance for their copies of future recordings, thus making it economically possible for EMI to make such " niche " but classic recordings as the songs of Hugo Wolf ( sung by Elena Gerhardt ) and the complete piano works of Beethoven ( played by Artur Schnabel ).

Although a music video was also made, the Red Hot Chili Peppers had no involvement in its making since it was produced by EMI.

I remember sitting dolefully in the Capitol offices in Toronto with Deane Cameron ( then the head of A & R at Capitol Canada ) and him making an urgent phone call to EMI in Los Angeles.

The song was recorded at De Lane Lea Studios, 129 Kingsway, making it one of only a very few Beatles tracks not recorded at EMI Studios.

In 1991, Koppelman and Bandier sold their share of SBK Records to EMI Music, making EMI the sole owner of the label.