Number One UK record label of 2024 revealed

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Official Charts Company (via Music Week).It was also the corporate group market leader with a year-on-year consumption growth of 10 per cent and a market share of 36.2 per cent.

Sony Music and Warner Music followed in second and third place respectively.2024 was the third consecutive year that EMI Records had come out on top thanks to sales such as Taylor Swift‘s ‘The Tortured Poets Department‘, which shifted 254,241 copies in the first six months of 2024 and ended the year on 783,820 units, making it their biggest seller.RCA came in second for combined consumption in 2024 with a 10 per cent share and it was the market leader based on track streams with a 10.8 per cent share.The label enjoyed domestic breakthrough success with BRIT Rising Star winner Myles Smith, whose single ‘Stargazing’ clocked up 1,012,699 sales and was as the 12th biggest track of 2024.

Beyoncé‘s album ‘Cowboy Carter‘ also shifted 137,499 units while single ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ clocked up 959,373 units.Polydor was third on combined consumption with a 9.9 per cent share thanks to the likes of Sabrina Carpenter‘s ‘Short n’ Sweet‘ which totalled 372,956 units.

Her three chart-topping singles – ‘Espresso’, ‘Please Please Please’ and ‘Taste – were among the biggest of the year with huge numbers.Island Records also had a good year thanks to releases from Noah Kahan, Hozier and Chappell Roan as did Parlophone, with Coldplay‘s ‘Moon Music‘ and Warner Records due to Dua Lipa‘s third album ‘Radical Optimism‘.Warner Music’s Atlantic label enjoyed success too following the success of Charli XCX‘s ‘Brat‘ album, which became a cultural phenomenon.It comes after the consumption of UK-recorded music saw a substantial increase in 2024, according to figures from the.