Label Resources

This page aims at collecting various information, links and resources useful to editors who focus on editing and researching on Labels.

General information

Global market share overview.

External resources

The following sites are useful to find labels homepages:

• Google Directory ‘Labels’

• http://www.rlabels.com/

• http://www.allrecordlabels.com/

Wikipedia has an extensive labels list, and a lot of articles:

• Wikipedia labels list page

Discogs of course might prove useful: Discogs

There is a Discogs thread that lists some Label Codes.

There is a German wikipedia article has a lot of Label Codes too.

There is a French web page that lists all the labels that belong to the “Union des Producteurs phonographiques Français Indépendants” (UPFI). Information about most of the French independent labels can be found on this page.

Genre oriented resources

Jazz

• Scott Yanow label page: useful for a quick heads-up about some labels

• Michael Fitzgerald label page: has a lot of catalogs (although not really detailed)

• The jazz discography project does not have a lot of labels catalogs, but when they have one, it’s good!