HMV Canada

HMV Canada Ltd.

Former type	Private
Industry	Retail
Fate	Receivership
Successor	Sunrise Records
Founded	1986
Defunct	April 14, 2017
Headquarters	Etobicoke, Ontario
Area served	Canada
Key people	Nick Williams, President and CEO (2009–2017)
Products	Books Film Television Music Technology Merchandise Cinema
Revenue	$193 million (2016)
Owner	Hilco
Number of employees	1,340 (2017)
Parent	HMV (1986–2011) Hilco UK (2011–2017)
Website	www.hmv.ca

HMV Canada Ltd. was a retailer in Canada, owned by Hilco. The company was originally a subsidiary of HMV in the United Kingdom until it was sold to Hilco in 2011. HMV itself would later be bought by Hilco in 2013. HMV Canada's head office was located in Etobicoke.

HMV Canada was established in 1986 by the purchase of the Mister Sound chain by EMI Music Canada. Stores in the country did not have rights to the "His Master's Voice" trademark, as it was owned by Technicolor SA and licensed out. HMV Canada's application for use of the trademark was abandoned in 2010. Though the initials "HMV" came from the His Master's Voice trademark, HMV was not prevented from using its initials in Canada. In some radio and television commercials in the 1990s, HMV Canada used "HMV" as an acronym for "hot music values".

The flagship store, which opened in 1991 at 333 Yonge Street in Toronto, was notable for hosting a number of in-store concerts and other promotions. Bands that performed in the store included Puff Daddy, D’Angelo, Green Day, Foxy Brown, Red Hot Chili Peppers (in an outdoor concert that shut down the Yonge and Edward Street intersection), Ramones, Guns N’ Roses, Backstreet Boys, N Sync and Mariah Carey. The Yonge Street store was also notable for promoting local indie music scene by giving unsigned bands prominent shelf space on the ground floor as well as hosting in-store concerts and events with Toronto bands.

In 2005, HMV Canada took over a Virgin Megastore in Vancouver, allowing it to own, "Canada’s largest store dedicated to music and DVD".