List of EMI artists
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
- Nat King Cole
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Judy Garland
- Nicolai Gedda
- The Goons
- Wanda Jackson
- Dick James
- The Kingston Trio
- Umm Kulthum
- Dean Martin
- Liza Minnelli
- Cliff Richard
- Jimmy Shand
- Dinah Shore
- Frank Sinatra
- Gene Vincent
1960s
- The Band
- The Beach Boys
- The Beatles. Now bought by Universal.
- Bobby Darin
- Gerry and the Pacemakers
- The Animals
- The Yardbirds
- The Hollies
- Gullivers People
- Pink Floyd
- The Pretty Things
- Deep Purple
- Cilla Black
- Pepe Jaramillo
- Billy J. Kramer
- The Fourmost
- The Shadows
- Herman's Hermits
- The Dave Clark Five
- Ahmad Zahir
- Helen Shapiro
- Manfred Mann
- The Move
- Procol Harum
- T. Rex
- Joe Cocker
- Peter and Gordon
- The Swallows
1970s–present
- 22-20s
- Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Air Traffic
- Ai
- Airbourne
- Aleesia
- Alfie
- All-4-One
- Andy Lau
- Ahmad Zahir
- Ilham al-Madfai
- Lily Allen
- Alpha Galates
- A-mei
- Namie Amuro
- Anahí
- Leif Ove Andsnes
- Angelic Upstarts
- Keren Ann
- Michael Fortunati
- Jack Jersey
- Anouk
- Adam Ant
- AFI
- Alison Wonderland
- Armored Saint
- Arrows
- Art Brut
- Richard Ashcroft
- Assala
- Athlete
- Auf der Maur
- Australian Crawl
- Avant
- Avion
- Charles Aznavour
- Melanie B
- Lloyd Banks
- Barenaked Ladies
- Bassheads
- The Barracudas
- Beastie Boys
- Beau Dommage
- Bebe
- Victoria Beckham
- Belinda
- Belouis Some
- The Beta Band
- BlaaZe
- Black Dice
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Black Sabbath
- Blue
- Blue Mink
- Blur
- David Bowie
- Jeff Bridges
- Lisa Brokop
- Garth Brooks
- Meredith Brooks
- Brotherhood of Man
- James Brown
- Emma Bunton
- Burning Spear
- Kate Bush
- Melanie C
- John Cale
- Camper Van Beethoven
- Captain
- Cass Phang
- Crookers
- Mariah Carey
- Belinda Carlisle
- Kim Carnes
- Carpark North
- Hayko Cepkin
- The Chemical Brothers
- Chiddy Bang
- Chingy
- Chumbawamba
- Anne Clark 1982-1994
- Classics IV
- Claytown Troupe 1991–1992
- George Clinton
- Joe Cocker
- Cockney Rejects
- Coldplay
- Phil Collins
- Conor Maynard
- The Colour
- The Concretes
- Elvis Costello
- Graham Coxon
- DJ Crazy Toones
- Creamy
- Crowded House
- Myriam Montemayor Cruz
- Daft Punk
- The Dandy Warhols
- The Decemberists
- Delirious?
- The Departure
- Depeche Mode
- Design
- Device
- Dewa 19
- Ahmad Dhani
- Dirty Vegas
- The Divine Comedy
- Doves
- Dubstar
- The Duke Spirit
- Duran Duran
- Sheena Easton
- Anthonia Edwards
- Taron Egerton
- The Elkcloner
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Eloy
- Elva Hsiao
- Shawn Emanuel
- Empire
- Enigma
- Erasure
- Eric Johnson
- Eternal
- Euphoria
- Exaltasamba
- Faith Evans
- Evanescence
- Everclear
- Exodus
- Faker
- Falco
- Fairuz
- Fatboy Slim
- Kevin Federline
- Tiziano Ferro
- Fey
- Neil Finn
- Fischerspooner
- Five Finger Death Punch
- The Flowers
- Foo Fighters
- Michael Franti and Spearhead
- The J. Geils Band
- The Generators
- Debbie Gibson
- David Gilmour
- Gary Glitter
- Goldfrapp
- Diego González
- Gorillaz
- Edyta Górniak
- Grand Avenue
- Grand Funk Railroad
- Amy Grant
- Great White
- David Guetta
- G-Unit
- Adrian Gurvitz
- Geri Halliwell
- Ed Harcourt
- Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
- George Harrison
- Corey Hart
- Nazia Hassan
- Zohaib Hassan
- Mike Hawkins
- Richard Hawley
- Oliver Haze
- Heart
- Heroes del Silencio
- Honey Bane
- Jake Hook
- Hot Chip
- Hot Chocolate
- Houston
- Stanley Huang
- Hurt
- Ice Cube
- Idlewild
- Interpol
- Iron Maiden
- Alan Jackson
- Janet Jackson
- Jay Chou
- Jaguares
- Jessica Simpson
- Mulan Jameela
- Duncan James
- Jane's Addiction
- Matthew Jay
- Pepe Jaramillo
- Jean Michel Jarre
- Dr. John
- Norah Jones
- Junior Senior
- Junoon
- Kajagoogoo
- Laura Michelle Kelly
- Kenna
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- King Biscuit Time
- Kings of Convenience
- The Knack
- Beverley Knight
- Jordan Knight
- Korn
- Kraftwerk
- Leo Ku
- Kudai
- Kyla
- Lady Antebellum
- Cristy Lane
- Marit Larsen
- David Lasley
- LCD Soundsystem
- Legião Urbana
- John Lennon
- LeToya
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Libera
- Little River Band
- Alex Lloyd
- Justin Lo
- Loane
- Lollipop
- Los Mismos
- Ruth Lorenzo
- Louise
- Love is All
- M2M
- Madredeus
- Mae
- The Magic Numbers
- Maids of Gravity
- Die Mannequin
- Manowar
- Marillion
- Marinella
- Lene Marlin
- Richard Marx
- Willy Mason
- Abraham Mateo
- Keiko Matsui
- Paul McCartney. Left in 2007. Owns solo back catalogue rights, which were licensed to Concord Music Group in 2010 and transferred to Capitol in 2016.
- McFly
- Megadeth
- Meat Loaf One album: Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
- Memorain
- George Michael 1996–1999. Owned solo back catalogue rights from that time, which were licensed to Sony Music Entertainment in 2008.
- Michael Learns to Rock
- Mina
- Kylie Minogue
- Mandy Moore
- Morrissey
- Bob Mould
- Mud
- Róisín Murphy
- The Music
- Na Ying
- Naast
- Kary Ng
- Nickelback
- Martin Nievera
- Nine Times Bodyweight
- O'G3NE
- Oh Land
- Omarion
- One More Girl
- Operator Please
- Orbital
- Stacie Orrico
- Beth Orton
- Otep
- Fito Páez
- Papa VS Pretty
- Sabri brothers
- Sarina Paris
- Jennylyn Mercado
- Katy Perry
- Pet Shop Boys
- Liz Phair
- Poison
- Prefab Sprout
- Maxi Priest
- Prime Circle
- Los Prisioneros
- Professor Green
- Osvaldo Pugliese
- Suzi Quatro
- Queen
- Queensrÿche
- R.E.M.
- Radar
- Radiohead
- Rainbow
- Rascals
- Ricki-Lee
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Raekwon
- Raining Pleasure
- Marion Raven
- RBD
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Helen Reddy
- Relient K
- Kenny Rogers
- Roll Deep
- The Rolling Stones
- Sigur Rós
- Diana Ross
- Vasco Rossi
- Sakis Rouvas
- Roxette
- Röyksopp
- Rodney Rude
- Rucka Rucka Ali
- Ruslana
- Deric Ruttan
- Lee Ryan
- Samestate
- Sandy Lam
- George Lam
- Satyricon
- S.H.E
- Sara Tunes
- Sarah Chen
- Salmonella Dub
- Scorpions
- Dan Seals
- Jay Sean
- Bob Seger
- Selena
- The Sex Pistols
- Silent Running
- Shazza
- Shaye
- Shenandoah
- SHINee
- Show Lo
- Show-Ya
- The Sleepy Jackson
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- The Smiths
- Snoop Dogg
- Soprano
- Sparklehorse
- Spice Girls
- Ringo Starr
- Starsailor
- Steriogram
- Angus & Julia Stone
- Joss Stone
- The Stranglers
- Stefanie Sun
- Super Monkey's
- Supergrass
- Aleks Syntek
- T-ara
- T.O.Y.
- T. Rex
- Talk Talk
- Talking Heads
- Tamta
- Stephy Tang
- David Tao
- Tasmin Archer
- A Taste of Honey
- The Tea Party
- Telepopmusik
- Tinie Tempah
- Tension
- Nicholas Teo
- Thalía
- This World Fair
- Lynda Thomas
- Richard Thompson
- Trina
- Troye Sivan
- Jolin Tsai
- KT Tunstall
- Grzegorz Turnau
- Tina Turner
- Twista
- Keith Urban
- Hikaru Utada
- Lim Hyung Joo
- Valen Hsu
- Van Hunt
- Vanilla Ice
- The Verve
- Zhao Wei
- Vincent Vincent and the Villains
- The Vines
- Vinnie Vincent Invasion
- Vixen
- Vodka Collins
- W.A.S.P.
- Waltari
- Watershed
- WC
- Simon Webbe
- Matt White
- The White Stripes
- Whitesnake
- Robbie Williams
- Wilson Phillips
- Wizzard
- Fann Wong
- Faye Wong
- Roy Wood
- X Japan
- XX Teens
- Rainie Yang
- Tony Yayo
- You Me At Six
- Young Maylay
- Bertine Zetlitz
- Peggy Zina
- Goldfish
- F.L.Y.
Classical
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Agustin Anievas
- Antonio Pappano
- Artur Schnabel
- Dennis Brain
- Dinu Lipatti
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Elizabeth Marvelly
- Enrico Caruso
- Fairuz
- Franz Welser-Möst
- Herbert von Karajan
- Ian Bostridge
- Itzhak Perlman
- Jacqueline du Pré
- Sir John Barbirolli
- Leif Ove Andsnes
- Linda Brava
- Maria Callas
- Mariss Jansons
- Maxim Vengerov
- Natalie Dessay
- Nazzareno Carusi
- Nigel Kennedy
- Olaf Bär
- Otto Klemperer
- Riccardo Muti
- Roberto Alagna
- Rudolf Kempe
- Sabine Meyer
- Sarah Brightman
- Simon O'Neill
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Sir Thomas Beecham
- Trey Chui-yee Lee
- Umm Kulthum
- Vanessa-Mae
- Victoria de los Ángeles
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Sir William Walton
- Yehudi Menuhin