Editing Virgin Records (section)

==Subsidiary labels==
*In 1983 Virgin purchased '''[[Charisma Records]]''', renaming it '''Charisma/Virgin''', then later '''Virgin/Charisma''', before folding the label in 1986 and transferring its remaining artists to Virgin. In the process they acquired [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] and comedy group [[Monty Python]]. The Charisma label was reactivated in the US in 1990 and enjoyed success with signings such as [[Maxi Priest]], [[38 Special (band)|38 Special]] and [[Enigma (German band)|Enigma]]. When this Charisma label was retired in 1992, most of its artists were, as before, transferred to Virgin.
*'''[[E.G. Records]]''', an artist management company and independent record label, mostly active during the 1970s and 1980s, was acquired by Virgin in the late-80s after its owners' failed investments left the company in financial problems. Virgin renamed the label as '''Virgin EG Records''' for a brief time until its dissolving after EMI's acquisition. [[Robert Fripp]] and his band [[King Crimson]] had an extensive legal battle with EG that ended with Fripp taking both band and solo  catalogues with him to form his own company [[Discipline Global Mobile]], whose releases, mostly catalogue reissues, were licensed to Virgin until going full independent.
*In 1987, '''Venture Records''' was created for new age and modern classical artists including [[Klaus Schulze]], who had been associated with Virgin since the early 1970s. (Virgin had distributed UK editions of his German albums since 1974, and he had almost been signed as a Virgin artist in 1976, but the deal was cancelled after a conflict between Virgin and his German label.)
*'''10 Records''' was sometimes branded as Ten, and was part of AVL (Associated Virgin Labels Limited – a marketing company owned by Virgin Records Ltd).
*'''Siren Records''' was another 1980s label which became part of AVL.  
*'''Circa Records''' was another 1980s AVL label, though one which became Virgin's 'strategic marketing' division making TV-advertised compilations such as ''The Best...Album in the World...Ever!'' collections under the label name Virgin TV or EMI/Virgin TV.
*'''[[Immortal Records]]'''
*'''[[Caroline Records]]''' was a budget label used from 1973 to 1977. The name and logo were later used for some American editions of Virgin records in the 1980s and 1990s. Caroline was primarily used for independent distribution until the label was reactivated in 2013. Today, Caroline Records acts as an independent label taking the place of EMI Label Services, after Virgin's former parent company EMI was purchased by Universal Music Group. 
*'''[[Front Line (record label)|Front Line Records]]''' (or '''Virgin's Front Line''') was a label for issuing Jamaican and English reggae music from 1978 to approximately 1987. It became an actual label name in 1978 when it succeeded a category of Virgin albums and singles marketed as "The Front line Series" which went back to 1976, when a reggae compilation album titled ''The Front Line'' was issued on Virgin. Front Line artists included [[U-Roy]], [[U Brown]], [[Mighty Diamonds]], [[Keith Hudson]], [[Althea & Donna]], [[Jah Lloyd]], [[Johnny Clarke]], [[The Gladiators (band)|The Gladiators]], [[Peter Tosh]], [[I-Roy]], [[Tapper Zukie]], [[Sly Dunbar]], [[Twinkle Brothers]], [[Prince Far I]], [[Big Youth]], [[The Abyssinians]], [[Culture (band)|Culture]], [[Gregory Isaacs]] and [[Linton Kwesi Johnson]].
*A short-lived associated label, '''[[Dindisc]]''', had [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]] and [[The Monochrome Set]] during its brief existence (1980–1981), after which its recordings became part of Virgin's catalogue.
*'''[[Noo Trybe Records]]''' was a [[hip hop]] record label that existed from 1994 to 1999. The label consisted of mostly West Coast hip hop artists such as the [[Luniz]]. The label also became the distributor for releases under [[Rap-A-Lot Records]] after they switched distribution from Virgin's sister label under EMI, [[Priority Records]] in 1994. Noo Trybe also became the home of East Coast rappers [[AZ (rapper)|AZ]] and [[Gang Starr]] after their respective labels [[EMI Records|EMI]] and [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]] were folded in early 1997.
*'''Delabel''' was one of the main imprints of the French division of EMI, along with Virgin Music, Hostille, Blue Note France and Labels. Delabel had a publishing company and a record label. It existed until 2012 when EMI broke up, and EMI Music France was sold to [[Warner Music Group]] (along with [[Parlophone]] and other EMI divisions) and renamed '''Parlophone Music France'''. The publishing company of Delabel is now owned by [[Sony/ATV Music Publishing]] (which acquired [[EMI Music Publishing]]); meanwhile, the label catalogue now belongs to the new division '''[[Parlophone|Parlophone Music France]]''', from Warner Music Group. It signed with [[Mathieu Chedid]], [[Daft Punk]], [[Tonton David]] and others, It also distributed [[The Prodigy]]'s releases in France from 1993 to 2006.