Newark, NJ; February 26, 2001 - Vio, the global provider of online applications for the efficient production, storage and distribution of creative digital content, announced today that EMI Recorded Music has chosen Vio to provide an online digital workflow environment with full Internet access for creating and producing digital artwork for all of EMI's North American record labels. The third largest music company in the world with its North American headquarters in New York, EMI Recorded Music releases over 1,000 albums each year, and maintains a presence in nearly 70 countries. Its current roster includes approximately 1,500 artists in every leading music genre, including pop, rock, jazz, classical, Latin, Christian, country, rap/urban and dance. The company's world famous labels which include EMI, Virgin, Capitol, Priority and Blue Note, represent important local and international artists including some of the biggest names in the recorded music industry and have been responsible for discovering, recording and promoting such well known artists as The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Garth Brooks, Lenny Kravitz, Nat 'King' Cole, Pink Floyd, Utada Hikaru, D'Angelo, Master P, Radiohead, Coldplay, Selena, Spice Girls and Robbie Williams.