EMI Records will cease to exist - February 8, 2002
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| Event | |
| Date | February 8, 2002 |
| Short description | It is announced that EMI Records will cease to exist. |
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BBC reported on this date that "Troubled music company EMI Group is to reshuffle its artists and staff in a move that will mean the EMI record label will cease to exist. The EMI Group will merge its labels into two global brands, Virgin and Capitol." Actually, this is how EMI Records came to be. In 1931, The Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone company merged, making Electric and Musical Industries (EMI).
