Record Labels of the Top 100 Artists
Last Updated: 05/25
- Taylor Swift: Republic, Big Machine
- Kendrick Lamar: Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope, PGLang
- Morgan Wallen: Panacea, Big Loud, Republic, Mercury
- Post Malone: Republic, Mercury
- Gunna: YSL, 300
- Luke Combs: River House Artists, Columbia
- SZA: TDE, RCA
- Zach Bryan: Warner Bros, Belting Broncos
- Hozier: Rubyworks, Island, Columbia
- Dua Lipa: Warner Bros
- Drake: OVO Sound, Republic, Young Money, Cash Money
- Benson Boone: Warner Bros, Night Street
- Tommy Richman: None
- Shaboozey: Empire, Republic
- Teddy Swims: Warner Bros
- Knocked Loose: Pure Noise, No Luck, Little Heart
- Sabrina Carpenter: Hollywood, Island
- Jelly Roll: Slumerican, Bad Apple Inc., War Dog, Wyte Music, BBR
- Noah Kahan: Republic, Universal, Mercury
- Kings Of Leon: RCA, LoveTap, Capitol
- Ariana Grande: Republic
- Chris Stapleton: Mercury Nashville
- SEVENTEEN: Pledis, Geffen, Universal
- Future: Freebandz, Epic, A1
- Olivia Rodrigo: Geffen
- Bailey Zimmerman: Warner Bros, Elektra
- Beyonce: Parkwood, Columbia, Music World
- Doja Cat: Kemosabe, RCA
- The Weeknd: XO, Republic
- Travis Scott: Grand Hustle, Epic, Very GOOD Beats, Cactus Jack
- Miley Cyrus: Walt Disney, Hollywood, RCA, Smiley Miley, Columbia
- Fleetwood Mac: None
- Metro Boomin: Boominati Worldwide, Republic, Freebandz
- Chappell Roan: Atlantic, Island, Amusement, KRA International
- Lainey Wilson: Cupit, Lone Chief, BBR
- 21 Savage: Epic, The Orchard, Slaughter Gang
- Scotty McCreery: Interscope, Mercury Nashville, 19, Triple Tigers
- Metallica: Megaforce, Elektra, Vertigo, Warner Bros, Blackened
- Jack Harlow: Generation Now, Atlantic, sonaBLAST!
- Michael Jackson: Steeltown, Motown, Epic, Legacy, Sony, MJJ Productions
- Nate Smith: Word, Arista Nashville, RCA
- Tate McRae: RCA
- GloRilla: Collective, Interscope
- Cody Johnson: Warner Bros
- Ed Sheeran: Asylum, Atlantic, Elektra, Gingerbread Man
- Kanye West: GOOD, Island Def Jam, Def Jam, Roc-A-Fella, YZY
- Bruno Mars: Universal Motown, Atlantic, Elektra
- Tyler, The Creator: Columbia, Odd Future, Sony, RED, XL
- Eagles: None
- AC/DC: Albert, Atlantic, ATCO, East West, Elektra, Epic, Columbia
- Billie Eilish: Darkroom, Interscope
- Stray Kids: JYP, Epic Japan, Republic
- Kacey Musgraves: Mercury Nashville, MCA Nashville, Interscope
- Bryson Tiller: None
- RM: Big Hit
- Linkin Park: Warner Bros, Machine Shop
- Nirvana: Sub Pop, DGC
- Jordan Davis: MCA Nashville
- Melanie Martinez: Atlantic
- J. Cole: Dreamville, Roc Nation, Interscope, Columbia, ByStorm
- Lana Del Rey: 5 Points, Stranger, Polydor, Interscope
- The Beatles: Parlophone, Capitol, Apple
- TOMORROW X TOGETHER: Big Hit, Republic
- BossMan DLow: Alamo
- Fuerza Regida: Lumbre, Cinq, Rancho Humilde, Street Mob, Sony Latin
- Harry Styles: Syco, Columbia, Erskine
- Queen: EMI, Parlophone, Elektra, Capitol, Hollywood, Island, Virgin EMI
- Megan Thee Stallion: BMG, Warner Bros, Hot Girl, 300, 1501 Certified
- Dasha: Disruptor, Warner Bros
- Imagine Dragons: Kidinakorner, Interscope
- Incubus: Island, Epic, Immortal, WEG, Virgin
- Sexyy Red: gamma., Open Shift, Jay Rebel
- Peso Pluma: El Cartel de Los Ángeles, Prajin, Worms, Double P, Creative Art Agency
- Xavi: Interscope
- Journey: Columbia, Frontiers, Sanctuary, Nomota, BMG
- Megan Moroney: Arista Nashville, Columbia
- Frank Ocean: Blonded, Def Jam, RedZone
- BigXthaPlug: UnitedMasters
- Adele: XL, Columbia, Melted Stone
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fantasy
- Jason Aldean: Broken Bow
- Laufey: AWAL
- Rainbow Kitten Surprise: Elektra
- Kenny Chesney: Capricorn, BNA, Columbia, Warner Bros, Blue Chair
- Djo: AWAL
- Bon Jovi: Island, Mercury, Vertigo
- Pearl Jam: Monkeywrench, Universal, J, Epic, Third Man
- Tyler Hubbard: Hubbard House, EMI Nashville
- Nicki Minaj: Young Money, Cash Money, Republic, Heavy On It
- Green Day: Lookout, Reprise, Epitaph, Warner Bros
- Bad Bunny: Hear This Music, Rimas
- Myles Smith: None
- Bob Marley And The Wailers: Studio One, Wail'n Soul'm, Tuff Gong, Beverley's, Upsetter, Island, JAD
- Muni Long: Def Jam, White Rose Garden, Thirty Tigers, Supergiant, Capitol, Virgin
- Artemas: None
- Tucker Wetmore: None
- Pink Floyd: EMI, Columbia, Tower, Harvest, Capitol, Sony Music, Parlophone
- NCT DREAM: SM, Avex Trax
- Kane Brown: Zone 4, RCA
- Unleash The Archers: Napalm
- Columbia (13)
- Republic (12)
- Warner Bros (12)
- Interscope (9)
- RCA (7)
- Island (7)
- Epic (7)
- Elektra (7)
- Atlantic (6)
- Capitol (5)
- Mercury (4)
- Hollywood (3)
- Universal (3)
- Mercury Nashville (3)
- Def Jam (3)
- Parlophone (3)
- 300 (2)
- Young Money (2)
- Cash Money (2)
- BBR (2)
- Geffen (2)
- Freebandz (2)
- Vertigo (2)
- Sony (2)
- Arista Nashville (2)
- XL (2)
- MCA Nashville (2)
- Big Hit (2)
- EMI (2)
- BMG (2)
- Virgin (2)
- AWAL (2)
- Big Machine (1)
- Top Dawg (1)
- Aftermath (1)
- PGLang (1)
- Panacea (1)
- Big Loud (1)
- YSL (1)
- River House Artists (1)
- TDE (1)
- Belting Broncos (1)
- Rubyworks (1)
- OVO Sound (1)
- Night Street (1)
- Empire (1)
- Pure Noise (1)
- No Luck (1)
- Little Heart (1)
- Slumerican (1)
- Bad Apple Inc. (1)
- War Dog (1)
- Wyte Music (1)
- LoveTap (1)
- Pledis (1)
- A1 (1)
- Parkwood (1)
- Music World (1)
- Kemosabe (1)
- XO (1)
- Grand Hustle (1)
- Very GOOD Beats (1)
- Cactus Jack (1)
- Walt Disney (1)
- Smiley Miley (1)
- Boominati Worldwide (1)
- Amusement (1)
- KRA International (1)
- Cupit (1)
- Lone Chief (1)
- The Orchard (1)
- Slaughter Gang (1)
- 19 (1)
- Triple Tigers (1)
- Megaforce (1)
- Blackened (1)
- Generation Now (1)
- sonaBLAST! (1)
- Steeltown (1)
- Motown (1)
- Legacy (1)
- MJJ Productions (1)
- Word (1)
- Collective (1)
- Asylum (1)
- Gingerbread Man (1)
A while back I set out to research major record labels, and went through each
artist on the Billboard Top 100, looking at their labels and what their labels' parent companies were.
It was a super long process and resulted in a pretty expected list: the major labels dominated the
industry.
I decided it would be a super interesting project to automate this research. On
the back-end of this project, I created a dataset on GitHub, which can be found here, which
scrapes the Billboard Top 100 list, and then scrapes the wikipedia page of each artist, finding all
labels listed in their "infobox". It's important to note that this will include previous labels and
won't be able to detect if a company is a subsidiary of another (like RCA being owned by Sony).
I then coded a workflow for the GitHub repo that automates the script to run
daily, so the data is current every day. Pairing it with chart.js and some front-end code, you get the
graph above, and the full lists of artists labels.