EMI 百代

EMI label used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and other Chinese-speaking markets in Southeast Asia from the early 1980s, with 百代 being a translation of EMI. When EMI re-opened an office in mainland China in 2001, after leaving in 1948, it was also used on Chinese-originated releases issued by EMI Asia Pacific in Hong Kong. In 2007, EMI sold all its mainland Chinese assets and rights to Push Typhoon. For the pre-1948 Chinese company please see 百代唱片, a Chinese translation of "Pathé Records" (also used in Hong Kong until the late 1950s). EMI or EMI 百代 should not be added as a label on any release with a primary branded label such as His Master's Voice, Columbia, Pathé, Parlophone, Capitol Records, etc., as the boxed EMI logo that appears with the primary label simply implies that the label formed part of the EMI Group (please do not confuse with EMI Group Plc), not that EMI was a label. In these cases, it is permitted to add EMI as a Record Company as it was the corporate logo of the parent companies Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. / EMI Ltd. (EMI) and was not intended as a label. For unofficial releases, use: EMI 百代 (2)