Record Labels of the Top 100 Artists
Last Updated: 06/15
- Morgan Wallen: None
- Taylor Swift: None
- Kendrick Lamar: Interscope, Top Dawg, Aftermath, PGLang
- SEVENTEEN: None
- Miley Cyrus: None
- SZA: None
- Billie Eilish: None
- Benson Boone: None
- Sabrina Carpenter: None
- Alex Warren: None
- The Weeknd: None
- Tate McRae: None
- Luke Combs: None
- Jelly Roll: Slumerican, Bad Apple Inc., War Dog, Wyte Music, BBR
- Chappell Roan: None
- Teddy Swims: None
- Shaboozey: None
- Lady Gaga: Def Jam, Cherrytree, KonLive, Streamline, Interscope
- Drake: None
- Post Malone: None
- Fleetwood Mac: None
- Bruno Mars: None
- Doechii: None
- Metallica: None
- BigXthaPlug: None
- Bad Bunny: None
- Chris Stapleton: None
- Tyler, The Creator: None
- Zach Bryan: None
- Hozier: None
- Ed Sheeran: None
- Jessie Murph: None
- Myles Smith: None
- Radiohead: None
- Fuerza Regida: None
- sombr: None
- Forrest Frank: None
- Sleep Token: None
- Bailey Zimmerman: None
- Nirvana: None
- Lola Young: None
- Riley Green: None
- Ariana Grande: Republic
- Gracie Abrams: None
- Linkin Park: None
- Ella Langley: None
- Megan Moroney: None
- Leon Thomas: None
- Lil Tecca: None
- Michael Jackson: None
- Sufjan Stevens: None
- Brandon Lake: None
- Chris Brown: None
- Coldplay: None
- Garbage: None
- Lorde: None
- Kane Brown: None
- Aesop Rock: None
- Charli xcx: Vroom Vroom, Warner Bros, Asylum, Atlantic, Iamsound
- Lainey Wilson: None
- Jason Aldean: None
- Frank Ocean: None
- Zach Top: None
- AC/DC: None
- The Marias: None
- Eagles: None
- Playboi Carti: None
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: None
- Thomas Rhett: None
- Karol G: Universal Latino, Bichota, Interscope
- Pink Floyd: None
- Mac Miller: None
- Tucker Wetmore: None
- Stray Kids: None
- Queen: None
- Mariah The Scientist: None
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: None
- Deftones: None
- Eric Church: None
- Lana Del Rey: None
- Noah Kahan: Republic, Universal, Mercury
- Ravyn Lenae: None
- Dua Lipa: None
- Alice In Chains: None
- Tyler Childers: None
- Journey: None
- Sam Hunt: None
- Eminem: None
- ROSE: None
- Rihanna: None
- Green Day: Lookout, Reprise, Epitaph, Warner Bros
- Blake Shelton: Giant, Warner Bros, Reprise Nashville, Ten Point, BBR, Wheelhouse
- J. Cole: None
- Djo: None
- Lynyrd Skynyrd: None
- Russell Dickerson: None
- Lil Wayne: None
- Tommy Richman: None
- Neton Vega: None
- Arctic Monkeys: None
- Interscope (3)
- Warner Bros (3)
- BBR (2)
- Republic (2)
- Top Dawg (1)
- Aftermath (1)
- PGLang (1)
- Slumerican (1)
- Bad Apple Inc. (1)
- War Dog (1)
- Wyte Music (1)
- Def Jam (1)
- Cherrytree (1)
- KonLive (1)
- Streamline (1)
*Update: As of January 2025, Billboard stopped listing the labels of each artist. As such, this data will no longer update daily (as it once did) - I permanently froze the data at the last point where they did include labels.
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.