Editing Virgin Records (section)

==Virgin Music international companies==
*[[EMI Records]] (formerly [[Virgin EMI Records]]) is Universal's main label in the United Kingdom after [[Mercury Records]] UK has been reduced to a local Universal imprint and its artist moved to the new Virgin EMI label.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emimusic.com/news/2013/universal-music-uk-launches-virgin-emi-records/ |title=EMI Music &#124; Universal Music UK launches Virgin EMI Records |access-date=2013-12-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222192552/http://www.emimusic.com/news/2013/universal-music-uk-launches-virgin-emi-records/ |archive-date=22 December 2013 }}</ref> In 2020, Virgin EMI was rebranded as EMI Records, but the Virgin brand will remain as an imprint of the newly rebranded unit.
*[[Virgin Schallplatten]] GmbH was the German subsidiary of Virgin Records. It was consolidated into [[EMI]] Germany (which is now part of Universal Music Germany).
*The Dutch branch of Virgin became independent from (then) parent company [[Ariola]] in 1984, although Ariola kept distributing and marketing Virgin's output until it was taken over by EMI in the early 1990s (which also meant the end of Virgin's independent status in the Netherlands). In the late 1990s Virgin launched the Top Notch label, which became famous for its Dutch hip hop and rap artists. With Universal's acquisition of EMI in 2012, Virgin became part of the Universal Music Group Netherlands.
*Virgin France SA was founded in 1980 and was the first international division of Virgin Records. In 2002 it merged with EMI Music France and continued as an imprint, until it was consolidated into EMI France, which has been renamed [[Parlophone]] and sold to [[Warner Music Group]], just like the divisions in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia and Sweden. Universal (who retained Virgin's trademark in France) would later revive Virgin France as an imprint of [[Mercury Records]]' French division in 2016; its first artist, [[Etienne Daho]], was one of Virgin France's biggest artists before Warner's acquisition.
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*Virgin Japan has had three incarnations:
**The first was founded in 1987, Virgin Japan, as a wholly owned Virgin subsidiary. In 1989, following the investment by the [[Fujisankei Communications Group]] in Virgin Records, a new Virgin Japan company was established focused on domestic repertoire and run by Pony Canyon, the record company of Fujisankei. After EMI's purchase of Virgin in 1992, this incarnation of Virgin Japan was renamed Media Remoras, and it closed in 1997.
** The second incarnation was part of Toshiba-EMI, and had three sublabels: Virgin Domestic, Virgin Tokyo, and Virgin DCT (exclusive to releases from the band [[Dreams Come True (band)|Dreams Come True]]). All three were folded in 2004 into the label Virgin Music, which was folded into [[EMI Records Japan]] in 2013 after its merger with Universal. However, international Virgin releases were previously handled in Japan by Toshiba-EMI themselves prior to the 1987 establishment of the first incarnation of Virgin Japan.
** The third incarnation, Virgin Music (JPN), was established as a sublabel in 2014 following the merge of EMI R and [[Delicious Deli Records]]. Delicious Deli later became an imprint of Virgin Music alongside a new imprint, Virgin Records. In 2017, both imprints ceased operations and all artists under the two imprints were placed under the main Virgin Music label.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-19 |title=ユニバーサル 2017/1/1付組織変更および役員人事発表、楮本昌裕氏が執行役員に就任 |url=https://www.musicman.co.jp/business/15904 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Musicman |language=ja}}</ref>
* The Brazilian division of Virgin started in 1996 by [[EMI Music|EMI Music Brasil]] with artistic direction by [[Rick Bonadio]], with artists like Surto, [[Charlie Brown Jr. (band)|Charlie Brown Jr.]] and [[Tihuana]], and existed from 1996 to 2001, when it was absorbed by EMI, and in 2012 by Universal.