Label/Resources

This page aims at collecting various informations, links and resources useful to editors who focus on editing and researching on Labels. Right now, it's messy, and is barely a dumping ground for random informations.

Informative external resources about labels

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The following sites are useful to find labels homepages:

• http://www.rlabels.com/
• http://www.allrecordlabels.com/

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

• Wikipedia labels list page

Genre oriented resources:

• Jazz:
  • Scott Yanow label page: usefull 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 has not a lot of labels catalogs, but when they have one, it's good!

MusicBrainz resources:

• There have been preliminary attempts at consolidating data about labels prior to the introduction of labels into the database. They are to be found here: * CatalogCodes providing some catalog schemes * Jazz/Labels providing informations/links/catalogs for a number of jazz oriented labels

Global market share overview:

• There are mainly "4 big ones": Universal Music Group, EMI Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG who own a vast majority of all other labels.