Label Guide: Stateside

Stateside Records is a British record label, formed in 1962 by EMI as a replacement for its Top Rank label, which had folded. Stateside was setup to release licenced American recordings in direct competition with Decca's London "American Recordings", and Pye's "Pye International" labels. The label issued records from its American suppliers, including Amy, Bell, 20th Century Fox, Scepter, Vee-Jay, Brother, Dunhill and A&M, and acquired Tamla-Motown-Gordy from Oriole Records.

In the late 1960s, when EMI set up long term licence contracts with US labels like Motown, MCA and Asylum, it no longer needed Stateside, and the label retired quietly in 1973 in favour of the new EMI label. In the 1980s, the Stateside label was revived as a reissue label specialising in American recordings from Capitol Records and other labels EMI acquired over the years.