2009 - labels

Compiled using the singles and albums lists for the year...

1. (2) Slumberland Records

2. (1) Cloudberry Records

3. (5) Fortuna Pop!

4. (13) Planet Mu

5. (-) DJ Honda Recordings

6. (-) How Does It Feel ?

7. (-) Occultation Recordings

8. (RE) Tectonic

9. (28) Candlelight Records

10. (RE) Hyperdub

11. (RE) Relapse

12. (RE) Neuroshocked

13. (RE) Where It's At Is Where You Are

14. (-) Dirtee Stank

=15. (=26) The Satisfaction Recording Company

=15. (-) ICE H20

17. (-) Underused

18. (=22) Earache

19. (-) SMC

20. (-) Home Assembly Music

21. (-) No Cure

22. (-) Swamp 81

23. (-) Seclusiasis

24. (-) Osiris Music

25. (-) Digital Soundboy
26. (-) RAM

27. (-) Recordkingz

28. (-) This Almighty Pop!

29. (30) Boot.

30. (-) Fraction Discs

31. (-) Awkward

32. (3) Matinee Recordings

=33. (RE) Columbia

= 33. (RE) The International Lo-Fi Underground

35. (-) Nam Musik

36. (-) Allsorts

37. (-) Southside

38. (-)Shelflife

39. (14) Son Records

40. (-) SubSoldiers

Bubbling under: lots of usual suspects, including 555 Recordings, NGU and Thee SPC, as well as Keysound, Villain Entertainmnet, King Kong Holding Company, Subatomic and Hench...

And so Cloudberry is pipped to a third year running as top dog, thanks to Slumberland's scoring in the albums as well as singles stakes... the two chart-toppers from last year are followed by some "consolidation" from the top UK labels, Fortuna Pop! and Planet Mu. Matinee Recordings is the only other survivor in the top 40 from last year's top ten, and as usual many of the labels are the artists' boutique imprints. Albums from Obituary and Magrudergrind, meanwhile, helped propel Candlelight right up into the top 10. While at #12, Poland's Neuroshocked is the highest label from neither the US or UK, and the only one in the top twenty at all.