2010 - labels

Welcome back, fellow anorak. 2009's standings are, as ever, in brackets...

1. (NEW) Sven Wittekind Records
2. (1) Slumberland
3. (32) Matinee
4. (11) Relapse
5. (39) Son
6. (2) Cloudberry
7. (NEW) Toyfriend
8. (RE) Elefant
9. (5) DJ Honda Recordings
10. (3) Fortuna Pop!

11. (NEW) Nature Sounds
12. (RE) 555 Recordings
13. (29) Boot
14. (10) Hyperdub
15. (4) Planet Mu
16. (NEW) Teleskopik
17. (NEW) Magic Marker
18. (20) Home Assembly Music
19. (14) Dirtee Stank
20. (NEW) Ohm Resistance

21. (RE) Atomic Beat Records
22. (NEW) Fat Beats
= 23. (RE) Tremors
= 23. (NEW) VIP
= 25. (NEW) Commercial Suicide
= 25. (RE) Hydraulix
27. (NEW) Scion A/V
28. (NEW) Pebble Records
29. (NEW) Herszchlag
30. (NEW) Bubblegum

31. (NEW) Cider City
32. (RE) Domino
33. (24) Osiris
34. (NEW) Dirty Planet
35. (NEW) E-1
36. (NEW) R&S
37. (22) Swamp 81
38. (=33) The International Lo-Fi Underground
39. (NEW) Dub Technic
40. (NEW) Old King Lud / I, Ludicrous

Bubbling under: Oddbox, Underused, What's Your Rupture, Ganja, Warlord Dubplate, Jungle Therapy, Calypso, Maximum Minimum, Slam Jamz, JSH, Yard 26, Avalanche...

An extremely close run thing at the top, with SWR (eight records in the year-ends) just holding off Slumberland (nine) despite, like Cloudberry, being a "singles" label and not scoring at all in the albums stakes. There was clear blue water between both third and fourth, and fourth and fifth (Matinee - with a very healthy seven placings - and Relapse both scoring well for singles and LPs alike) before Son Records, thanks basically to Cappo, narrowly pipped Cloudberry in those UEFA places. The list saw a few of familiar names hanging on in the top ten. Mind you, after the top twenty, only Tremors and VIP of this list represented two or more "chart-ists".