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Top 25 Country music labels based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 366 country music labels headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 5,798 professional contacts across them, including 762 with verified work emails. Nashville is the largest hub.
This list covers country music labels headquartered in the United States, 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 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest country music labels based in the United States
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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Secretly Group is a leading independently owned music company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in 1988, Sub Pop Records is a medium-sized independent record label based in Seattle, WA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Top Dawg Entertainment is an American independent record label founded in 2004, by chief executive officer Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded on 08/08/08, Triple 8 Management has grown operations to encompass more than 30 full-time staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Partisan Records is an independent record label with offices in Los Angeles and London as well as in New York City, where the company was co-founded in 2007 by Tim Putnam and Ian…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arista records remains synonymous with some of the most influential artists in history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Life is Good- Available Now” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Reach Records is an Independent record label based in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 2004 by Ben Washer and Grammy-Award-winning recording artist Lecrae.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nice Life is a recording and publishing company based in Los Angeles founded by artist & producer Ricky Reed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Think It’s A Game Records is an American record label founded by G.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Seeker Music is a modern day music publishing and record company that brings a one-of-a-kind, creator-first, creator-led, growth strategy to both the worlds of catalog and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CMH Records is a Los Angeles-based, independent country and bluegrass label with several subsidiary labels, including Vitamin Records, Crosscheck, Dwell, and Rockabye Baby Music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rounder Records Corporation is an entertainment company that publishes and markets multiple genres of music including American folk, jazz, Cajun, Celtic, world, and soul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Loma Vista is an independent recording company with offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bad Habit is a full-service music company, inclusive of artist management, record label and publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rise Records is a record label based in Portland, Oregon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fat Possum Records, the venerable Oxford, MS label founded in 1992 by Matthew Johnson, gained instant recognition with albums by Mississippi bluesmen Junior Kimbrough and R.L.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SMACKSongs is a Nashville-based music publishing, management and artist development powerhouse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Oh Boy Records is an independent American record label located in Nashville, Tennessee, that was founded in 1981 by Grammy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Underneath the Black River Entertainment umbrella is a family of state-of-the-art recording studios, a multi-GRAMMY award-winning publishing company, a management company, and a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Sun Records Label first began to appear on records in the 1950s, featuring songs by new recording artists whose names soon became legends, and whose electrifying sound…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: country music 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 country music labels.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of country music labels, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name country music 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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Country music labels based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 366 companies.
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 country music 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “country music 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 country music 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 country music labels, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 762 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 19, 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.
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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 country music 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 country music labels are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 366 country music labels headquartered in the United States 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 city has the most country music labels?
Nashville leads with 53 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (42) and New York (39).
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 762 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 366 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 19, 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.
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