EMI is the world’s leading independent music company. It operates directly in 50 countries, with licensees in a further 20 and employs around 5,500 people. For the year ended 31 March 2007, EMI Group reported revenue of £1,751.5 million and £62.7 million in underlying profit before tax. In August 2007 EMI was acquired by private equity firm Terra Firma.
The company comprises two divisions – EMI Music, one of the top global recorded music companies, and EMI Music Publishing, one of the world’s leading music publishers. As an owner of digital music content, EMI is extremely well positioned to capitalise on the rapid growth of digital music. EMI’s strategy is to deliver music to consumers in any form, at any time and in any place. During the year ended 31 March 2007, EMI Group's digital revenues grew from £112.1 million to £164.2 million, representing 9.4% of total underlying revenue.
EMI Music represents recording artists spanning all musical tastes and genres and owns one of the finest catalogues of recorded music ever assembled with over three million individual tracks. The company’s roster and catalogue includes world famous stars and developing artists such as Lily Allen, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Dierks Bentley, Coldplay, Diam's, Depeche Mode, Gorillaz, Norah Jones, The Kooks, Korn, Lenny Kravitz, Kylie, Pink Floyd, Raphael, RBD, Joss Stone, The Rolling Stones, 30 Seconds To Mars, KT Tunstall, Keith Urban, Utada Hikaru and Robbie Williams plus some of the world’s finest classical artists including Nigel Kennedy, Simon Rattle, Itzhak Perlman and Angela Gheorghiu.
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