Major record labels (former)

 These two major were once part of the big six until 1999.

• EMI (founded March 31, 1931 as Electric and Musical Industries and folded into Universal Music Group on September 28, 2012)
• Predecessor companies, 1898-1931
• Gramophone Company (founded April 1898)
• Independent, 1898-1929
• Radio Corporation of America, 1929-1931
• Columbia Graphophone Company (founded February 13, 1917)
• Columbia Phonograph Company, 1917-1922
• Independent, 1922-1931
• Radio Corporation of America, 1931-1935
• Independent, 1935-1979 (as Electric and Musical Industries until 1971 and as EMI from 1971 onwards)
• Thorn EMI, 1979-1996
• EMI Group, 1996-2007
• Terra Firma Capital Partners, 2007-2011
• Citigroup, 2011-2012
• Polygram (founded 1962 as Grammophon-Philips Group and folded into Universal Music Group on December 10, 1998)
• Predecessor companies, 1898-1962
• Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (founded 1898)
• Independent, 1898-1941
• Siemens, 1941-1962
• Philips Phonografische Industrie (founded 1929 as Hollandsche Decca Distributie)
• Decca Records, 1929-1942
• Philips, 1942-1962 (as Hollandsche Decca Distributie until 1950 and as Philips Phonografische Industrie from 1950 onwards)
• Siemens and Philips, 1962-1988 (as Grammophon-Philips Group until 1972 and as Polygram from 1972 onwards)
• Philips, 1988-1998