Universal Music UK is a London-based division of Universal Music Group (UMG), and home to many of its home market’s leading record labels.<\/p>\n
Those labels include Capitol Records, Decca Records, Fiction, Island Records (UK) and Polydor Records.<\/p>\n
Universal Music UK’s largest label is EMI Records, run by its President, Rebecca Allen. Allen took over as head of the label in June 2020, as it was renamed from its previous incarnation as Virgin EMI.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n In early 2021 Universal Music UK launched<\/a> another frontline label, Def Jam 0207, run by co-Presidents \u2013 and twin brothers \u2013 Alec and Alex Boateng.<\/p>\n Other non-label divisions of Universal Music UK include its central catalog division, UMC, plus Abbey Road Studios, and Universal Music On Demand, which specifically handles company-wide playlist and compilation strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Universal Music UK (& Ireland) is led by its Chairman and CEO, David Joseph CBE.<\/p>\n In\u00a0 2018, in an interview with Music Business Worldwide, Joseph said<\/a>: “\u201cMusic should never be taken for granted. We know [songs] affect people in the most extraordinary way \u2013 one that\u2019s impossible to articulate \u2013 which is why I\u2019m always a massive proponent that there\u2019s no good or bad taste in music.”<\/p>\n Universal Music UK’s headquarters are located in Kings Cross, London.<\/p>\n