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Top 25 Hip hop record labels worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,420 hip hop record labels worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 29,798 professional contacts across them, including 3,543 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers hip hop record labels worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for hip hop record labels follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest hip hop record labels worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,275 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Atlantic Records was founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson, both avid music fans and record enthusiasts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,108 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Interscope-Geffen-A&M (sometimes abbreviated as IGA) is an American record label group, owned by Universal Music Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 958 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “K7 Music is a multi-faceted music company based in Berlin, London and New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 568 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2010 by Bay Area native Ghazi, EMPIRE is currently leading through its innovative and progressive approach to the digital music era across its label, distribution and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 564 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HaHaHa Production’s story is written on a complex music stave, always in the same studio and by people who, with a smile upon their faces, continue to knot new musical or personal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 426 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “RCA Records is American record label made up of a diverse and robust group of ambitious industry professions driven by a passion for music, artistry and creativity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 419 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bad Boy Entertainment is an award-winning, globally celebrated music, media, and entertainment company founded by Sean "Diddy" Combs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 345 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a record label of iconic, culture-shaping music and entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 304 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A division of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, Republic Records is home to an all-star roster of multi-platinum, award-winning legends and superstar…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Arts & Crafts is a Toronto based, artist-owned premium music-focused media and artist services company, offering expertise as an independent record label, artist management firm…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 266 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Create Music Group, we provide you with the resources of a major label with flexibility of being independent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A Sony Music Entertainment Company, Epic Records has launched the careers of GRAMMY® Award-winning multi-platinum artists and influential icons since its foundation back in 1953…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1984, Nettwerk Music Group is a leading global independent record label with a legacy of purpose-driven innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ditto Music is an award-winning global music distribution and record label services company, supporting over 2 million artists and labels worldwide, with more than 20 offices…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 195 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Part of Warner Music Group, headquartered in New York, Warner Music Central Europe operates creative hubs in Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, and Zurich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Mushroom Group is one of the world’s most iconic music and entertainment collectives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “300 Entertainment is an Independent American Record Label founded by Lyor Cohen, Roger Gold, Kevin Liles and Todd Moscowitz.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Because Music (part of Because Group) stands out as a key independent player on the global stage and one of the top-five leading indie labels in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ultra Records has been known to push electronic music’s boundaries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Secretly Group is a leading independently owned music company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Domino Recording Company, an independent record label since 1993, is home to artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Animal Collective, Franz Ferdinand, The Kills, Dirty Projectors, Hot…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor: Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “OWSLA is a record label and creative firm founded by Sonny "Skrillex" Moore and co-founded by Tim "Bitvargen" Smith, Kathryn Frazier, and Clayton Blaha.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: hip hop record labels. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names hip hop record labels.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of hip hop record labels, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name hip hop record labels. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Hip hop record labels worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among hip hop record labels, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for hip hop record labels are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “hip hop record labels”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names hip hop record labels), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among hip hop record labels, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,543 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Hip hop record labels by location
15 lists · largest firstEvery Hip hop record labels list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Hip hop record labels based in the United States1,334
- Hip hop record labels based in the United Kingdom371
- Hip hop record labels based in France195
- Hip hop record labels based in Germany132
- Hip hop record labels based in Canada119
- Hip hop record labels based in India111
- Hip hop record labels based in Brazil99
- Hip hop record labels based in Italy94
- Hip hop record labels based in Spain89
- Hip hop record labels based in the Netherlands88
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names hip hop record labels, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many hip hop record labels are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,420 hip hop record labels worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Atlantic Records, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most hip hop record labels?
The United States leads with 1,334 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (371) and France (195). Every hip hop record labels list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most hip hop record labels?
London leads with 210 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (195) and New York (158).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,543 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,420 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.