Loading label
Loading label
592 releases tracked from 2001 · 757 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Soulful house
4 tracks · 4 charting artists · 38 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Established in 1996, BBE Music — short for Barely Breaking Even — runs its own record shop in London and has been active for 30 years. Its output includes reissue series such as Tabansi Records and J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan, guided by the motto 'Real Music For Real People'.
sound
15% one genreElectronica, then R&B / Hip Hop and Nu Disco / Indie Dance
15% of the 592 releases we can tag · 0 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±44 BPM120 BPM typical, 89–176 across four in five releases
589 of 592 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 11.2 per record
23 chart entries since July · rate = entries per record over that window; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
4 yrs medianProducers here had a median 4 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 31 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
new here Saving Coco (Sep) · Antonio Ocasio (Jun)
16 of the 20 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
46% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 344 of 746 · 145 various-artists compilations
remixes
30% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
99 of the 328 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: John Morales, Mr Bird, Kenny Dope
9.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
44 of 100
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
1.7
releases a month
41 records in 24 months
Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.
new entries
week of 19 oct: 0 new entries · 0 top-20 placements
01 · before · artists released here first
02 · this label
BBE
03 · after · released here next
each count = artists here who also released there, out of 90 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Nervous Records (10), Quantize Recordings (9), Sonar Kollektiv (9), Atjazz Record Company (8), Yoruba Records (8), Defected Records (7), Global Soul Music (6), Peppermint Jam Records (6)
450 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 757
7 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 24 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
sending a demo
who's signing what, tracked daily.
working house producers get the daily read by email — free:
every morning · unsubscribe any time
see something wrong about BBE? let us know.