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
- Muna Salah
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
- 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
- Airbourne
- Aleesia
- Alfie
- All-4-One
- Ahmad Zahir
- Ilham al-Madfai
- Lily Allen
- Al'Margir
- Alpha Galates
- A-mei
- Namie Amuro
- Anahí
- Andra & The Backbone
- Leif Ove Andsnes
- Angelic Upstarts
- Keren Ann
- Jack Jersey
- Anouk
- Adam Ant
- AFI
- Alison Wonderland
- Apawk
- Arrows
- Art Brut
- Richard Ashcroft
- Athlete
- Auf der Maur
- Australian Crawl
- Avant
- Avion
- Charles Aznavour
- Melanie B
- Lloyd Banks
- Barenaked Ladies
- Bassheads
- The Barracudas
- The Be Be See
- Beastie Boys
- Beau Dommage
- Bebe
- Victoria Beckham
- Belinda
- The Beta Band
- BlaaZe
- Black Dice
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Black Sabbath
- Bleikr Morrison
- 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
- Pat Carl
- Belinda Carlisle
- Kim Carnes
- Carpark North
- Hayko Cepkin
- Ruben Chacon
- The Chemical Brothers
- Chiddy Bang
- Chingy
- Chumbawamba
- Anne Clark 1982-1994
- Claytown Troupe 1991–1992
- Joe Cocker
- Cockney Rejects
- Coldplay
- Conor Maynard
- The Colour
- The Concretes
- Elvis Costello
- Graham Coxon
- DJ Crazy Toones
- Crowded House
- Myriam Montemayor Cruz
- Daft Punk
- The Dandy Warhols
- The Decemberists
- Delirious?
- The Departure
- Depeche Mode
- Design
- Device
- Dewa 19
- Dewi Dewi
- Ahmad Dhani
- Dirty Vegas
- The Divine Comedy
- Doughboy
- Doves
- Dubstar
- The Duke Spirit
- Duran Duran
- Sheena Easton
- The Elkcloner
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Eloy
- Elva Hsiao
- Shawn Emanuel
- Empire
- Enigma
- Erasure
- Eric Johnson
- Eternal
- Euphoria
- Exaltasamba
- Faith Evans
- Evanescence
- Everclear
- Exodus
- Ezequielized Odyssey
- Faker
- Falco
- Fairuz
- Fatboy Slim
- Kevin Federline
- Tiziano Ferro
- Fey
- Neil Finn
- Fire 12
- Fischerspooner
- Five Finger Death Punch
- The Flowers
- Jo FloWroshus
- Foo Fighters
- Michael Franti and Spearhead
- The J. Geils Band
- The Generators
- Debbie Gibson
- David Gilmour
- Gary Glitter
- Glory
- Goldfrapp
- Diego González
- Gorillaz
- Edyta Górniak
- Gouge
- Grand Avenue
- Grand Funk Railroad
- Amy Grant
- Great White
- David Guetta
- G-Unit
- Adrian Gurvitz
- Geri Halliwell
- Hallway Productions
- 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
- Jaguares
- Jessica Simpson
- Mulan Jameela
- Duncan James
- Jane's Addiction
- Matthew Jay
- Pepe Jaramillo
- Jean Michel Jarre
- Dr. John
- Norah Jones
- Junior Senior
- Junoon
- Laura Michelle Kelly
- Kenna
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Killa Mike
- King Biscuit Time
- Kings of Convenience
- The Knack
- Beverley Knight
- Jordan Knight
- Korn
- Kraftwerk
- Leo Ku
- Kudai
- Kyla
- Lady Antebellum
- Cristy Lane
- Marit Larsen
- LCD Soundsystem
- Legião Urbana
- John Lennon
- LeToya
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Libera
- Alex Lloyd
- Justin Lo
- Loane
- Lolene
- Lollipop
- Los Mismos
- Ruth Lorenzo
- Louise
- M2M
- Madredeus
- Mae
- The Magic Numbers
- Maids of Gravity
- Die Mannequin
- Manowar
- Marillion
- Marinella
- Lene Marlin
- Junior Martinez
- 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:
- 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
- Rickey Montena
- Mandy Moore
- Morrissey
- Bob Mould
- Mud
- Róisín Murphy
- The Music
- Na Ying
- Naast
- Nachlader
- 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
- Power Francers
- Prefab Sprout
- Maxi Priest
- Prime Circle
- Los Prisioneros
- Professor Green
- Osvaldo Pugliese
- Suzi Quatro
- Queen
- Queensrÿche
- R.E.M.
- Radar
- Radiohead
- Rascals
- Ricki-Lee
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Raekwon
- Raining Pleasure
- Marion Raven
- RBD
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Helen Reddy
- Relient K
- Gracie Rivera
- Kenny Rogers
- Roll Deep
- The Rolling Stones
- Sigur Rós
- Diana Ross
- Vasco Rossi
- Sakis Rouvas
- Roxette
- Rappin P
- Röyksopp
- Rodney Rude
- Rucka Rucka Ali
- Ruslana
- Deric Ruttan
- Lee Ryan
- Samestate
- Sandy Lam
- Satyricon
- Mose Scarlett
- Scotty Boy and the James Kennedys
- 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
- The Sonic Hearts
- Soprano
- Sparklehorse
- Spice Girls
- Ringo Starr
- Starsailor
- Stereo
- Steriogram
- Angus & Julia Stone
- Joss Stone
- The Stranglers
- Nicholas Strunk
- Stefanie Sun
- The Sunstreak
- Super Monkey's
- Supergrass
- Aleks Syntek
- T-ara
- T.O.Y.
- T. Rex
- Talk Talk
- Talking Heads
- Tamta
- Stephy Tang
- David Tao
- A Taste of Honey
- The Tea Party
- Telepopmusik
- Tinie Tempah
- Tension
- Nicholas Teo
- Tha Trap
- Thalía
- This World Fair
- Lynda Thomas
- Richard Thompson
- Toxic Kompulsion
- Trina
- Troy Ave.
- 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
- Wrecktangle
- X Japan
- XX Teens
- Rainie Yang
- Tony Yayo
- You Me At Six
- Young Maylay
- Bertine Zetlitz
- Peggy Zina
- Zona Boy And Co.
- Goldfish
- The Moonlighters
- Hashtag
- F.L.Y.
Classical
- Roberto Alagna
- Leif Ove Andsnes
- Agustin Anievas
- Helena Blagne
- Linda Brava
- Olaf Bär
- Sir John Barbirolli
- Sir Thomas Beecham
- Ian Bostridge
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Dennis Brain
- Maria Callas
- Nazzareno Carusi
- Enrico Caruso
- Natalie Dessay
- Jacqueline du Pré
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Fairuz
- Mariss Jansons
- Herbert von Karajan
- Rudolf Kempe
- Nigel Kennedy
- Otto Klemperer
- Umm Kulthum
- Trey Chui-yee Lee
- Dinu Lipatti
- Elizabeth Marvelly
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Sabine Meyer
- Riccardo Muti
- Simon O'Neill
- Antonio Pappano
- Itzhak Perlman
- Blair Ellis Robertson
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Artur Schnabel
- Maxim Vengerov
- Sir William Walton
- Franz Welser-Möst