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How does Label types work?
How does Label types work?

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

Aël Guégan avatar
Written by Aël Guégan
Updated over a week 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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