Record Labels of the Top 100 Artists
Last Updated: 04/24
- Morgan Wallen: None
- Kendrick Lamar: None
- Sabrina Carpenter: None
- SZA: None
- Chappell Roan: None
- Lady Gaga: None
- Teddy Swims: None
- Drake: None
- Jelly Roll: None
- Post Malone: None
- Billie Eilish: None
- Gracie Abrams: None
- Benson Boone: None
- The Weeknd: XO, Republic
- Taylor Swift: None
- Luke Combs: None
- Doechii: Top Dawg, Capitol
- Bruno Mars: None
- Shaboozey: None
- Ariana Grande: None
- Ken Carson: None
- BigXthaPlug: None
- Bon Iver: None
- Bad Bunny: None
- Alex Warren: None
- Tyler, The Creator: None
- Fleetwood Mac: None
- Tate McRae: None
- Zach Bryan: Warner Bros, Belting Bronco
- Ed Sheeran: None
- Bailey Zimmerman: Warner Bros, Elektra
- Hozier: None
- Chris Stapleton: None
- Lola Young: None
- Myles Smith: None
- The Marias: None
- Charli xcx: None
- Miley Cyrus: Walt Disney, Hollywood, RCA, Smiley Miley, Columbia
- Playboi Carti: None
- Neton Vega: None
- Metallica: None
- Leon Thomas: None
- Nirvana: None
- Linkin Park: None
- Queen: None
- Zach Top: None
- Chris Brown: None
- Tito Double P: None
- Rage Against The Machine: None
- AC/DC: Albert, Atlantic, ATCO, East West, Elektra, Epic, Columbia
- Wallows: None
- Lana Del Rey: None
- GloRilla: None
- Riley Green: None
- Forrest Frank: None
- Noah Kahan: None
- Frank Ocean: None
- Brandon Lake: None
- Kane Brown: None
- Lord Huron: None
- Radiohead: None
- Grateful Dead: None
- Gorillaz: None
- Laufey: AWAL
- Sleep Token: None
- Michael Jackson: Steeltown, Motown, Epic, Legacy, Sony, MJJ Productions
- Jessie Murph: None
- Talking Heads: None
- The Smashing Pumpkins: None
- Ella Langley: None
- Vince Guaraldi: None
- ROSE: None
- Elton John: None
- Jon Pardi: None
- Nate Smith: None
- Coldplay: None
- Travis Scott: None
- Future: None
- Megan Moroney: None
- Creed: Blue Collar, Wind-up
- Jason Aldean: None
- Lil Tecca: None
- Gigi Perez: None
- Dasha: None
- Fuerza Regida: None
- HARDY: None
- Ethel Cain: None
- Cody Johnson: Warner Bros
- Gunna: None
- Eagles: None
- Tommy Richman: None
- Lil Baby: None
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: None
- David Bowie: None
- Selena Gomez: None
- sombr: None
- PARTYNEXTDOOR: None
- J. Cole: None
- Blake Shelton: None
- Young Thug: None
- Warner Bros (3)
- Elektra (2)
- Columbia (2)
- Epic (2)
- XO (1)
- Republic (1)
- Top Dawg (1)
- Capitol (1)
- Belting Bronco (1)
- Walt Disney (1)
- Hollywood (1)
- RCA (1)
- Smiley Miley (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.