Current Artists
Parlophone is still an important pop label with artists such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, Kylie Minogue, and Pet Shop Boys among others. It is also EMI's oldest active label: its contemporary HMV, was always more of a classical music label and ceased issuing popular music recordings in 1967 (it is now known as EMI Classics); English Columbia has been replaced by the EMI pop label. Parlophone also operates the imprint Regal Recordings, a contemporary revival of the historic Columbia Graphophone budget/reissue label founded in 1914.
An interesting note is that Parlophone's 45 rpm releases continue, as of late 2011, to be numbered using the same "R-xxxx" catalog number series that it has used continuously since 1956 (starting around R-4200 and currently up to the R-6800 range, but Parlophone used the R-prefix almost from their beginning).
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