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How does Label types work?

Label types feature and how you can make the most out of it

Written by Aël Guégan
Updated over a year ago

Label types enable you to access and export detailed information about labels when viewing charts, songs, and playlists.

With this mapped metadata, you can:

  • See if a song is released by a major, an indie, or a self-released artist.

  • Use other available filters and blocklists to hide songs that do not match your criteria, leaving you with only the desired songs in view.

  • To find all releases from a specific label, or its releases in a particular chart or playlist, simply type the label's name directly into the search bar ⬇️

How does this feature work?🧐

To create this functionality, our team referenced over 25,000 labels and categorized them into 3 types:

  • Majors: 111 UMG labels, 43 Sony labels, and 51 Warner labels.

  • Indie labels: over 23,000 indies, including 17 parent companies like BMG, Believe, or Concord, who collectively own 254 labels.

  • Self-released: artist-owned labels.

Any remaining labels are automatically tagged as "unknown" and are subject to future enrichment as we are constantly working to improve our "self-releasing" tagging and overall architecture.

If your label is tagged as "unknown", you can contact us at help@soundcharts.com. We'll do our best to enrich our data.

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