Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Music recording companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 504 music recording companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,876 professional contacts across them, including 657 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers music recording companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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.
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 music recording companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AWAL offers a modern approach to the traditional recording business, providing artists all the resources and expertise of a global label, while allowing them to retain ownership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Trade organisation representing the recording industry worldwide, representing over record company members across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Proudly independent since 2002, we have offices and production studios in 15 countries, 15 unique labels and a custom music division spearheaded by our team in Los Angeles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Metropolis Studios is one of the world's finest recording studios and home to the best, Grammy-Awards winning engineers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Music Gateway is a leading global music tech company dedicated to empowering artists, producers, and music professionals at every stage of their careers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rehegoo is an International dynamic group, born to produce and distribute independent artists' music across digital platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cooking Vinyl is a UK based independent record company, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “XL Recordings (or simply XL) is a British independent record label founded in 1989 by Richard Russell, Tim Palmer and Nick Halkes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Felt Music offers a complete music service including music research and licensing, a large team of experienced composers covering all styles and genres - and a unique collection…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AIR Studios began its long and prestigious history in 1969 when George Martin left EMI to establish an independent recording complex in the heart of central London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Horus Music is an enterprising global music distribution and label services company; we work with artists and labels to help them achieve their goals and ambitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Absolute Label Services work directly with artists, managers and labels to provide everything they need to take their music to market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Air-Edel is an all encompassing music company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “40 years of studios, passion and talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cheerful Music () was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, with an international office in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The state51 Conspiracy has been connecting music with audiences for 25 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HQ Recording provides a relaxed, creative studio environment located in the heart of Leicester City Centre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cygnus offer professional music & media services including digital distribution, audio mastering, music promotion, anti-piracy, graphic design & YouTube services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Offering world-class Distribution, Artist Services, and Music Publishing to independent artists around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Integral] is the music services division of [PIAS][Integral] provides record labels, managers and artists with a range of services to take their repertoire and products to market…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cr2 Records was founded in 2004 by Mark Brown, and since then has been at the forefront of dance music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unleash The Full Potential of Your Music!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “KUDOS RECORDS LIMITED is a music distribution company based in Kentish Town, London” 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: music recording companies. 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 music recording companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of music recording companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name music recording companies. 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.
Showing 25 of 504 music recording companies based in the United Kingdom
See the full list, filter by size, metro and specialty, and get verified emails and direct dials for all 657 reachable decision-makers.
Free signup · no credit card
Music recording companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 504 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 music recording companies, 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 Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “music recording companies”. 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 music recording companies), 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 music recording companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 657 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.
Music recording companies by metro
- Music recording companies in London224
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 music recording companies, 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 music recording companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 504 music recording companies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Drummer, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most music recording companies?
London leads with 224 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (17) and Bristol (12).
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 657 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 504 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.
Ready to reach these companies? Verified emails and direct dials for all 504 music recording companies based in the United Kingdom. Start with a free account, no credit card.
Download this list →Related lists
Music recording companies by geography
- Music recording companies based in Atlanta, United States
- Music recording companies based in Austin, United States
- Music recording companies based in Beverly Hills, United States
- Music recording companies based in Brooklyn, United States
- Music recording companies based in Los Angeles, United States
- Music recording companies based in Miami, United States
- Music recording companies based in Nashville, United States
- Music recording companies based in New York, United States
- Music recording companies based in Australia
- Music recording companies based in Austria
- Music recording companies based in Belgium
- Music recording companies based in Brazil
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.
More company lists
- All company lists
- Lists by location
- Lists A-Z
- New lists
- Music recording companies based in Atlanta, United States
- Music recording companies based in Austin, United States
- Music recording companies based in Beverly Hills, United States
- Music recording companies based in Brooklyn, United States
- Music recording companies based in Los Angeles, United States
- Music recording companies based in Miami, United States