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Black Book Records
180 releases tracked from 2016 · 167 producers · latest aug 2026
Scene: Festival & crossover house · also in Tech house
16 tracks · 14 charting artists · 33 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Founded in 2017, Los Angeles-based Black Book Records releases house and tech house productions.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
61% one genreTech House, then House and Dance / Pop
61% of the 180 releases we can tag · 9 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±3 BPM128 BPM typical, 125–130 across four in five releases
180 of 180 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 12.5 per record
77 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
8.4 yrs medianProducers here had a median 8.4 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 69 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
23 of 31
last debut
2 months ago
new here Arielle Free (Aug) · Jeff Sorkowitz (Aug)
23 of the 31 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
81% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 148 of 183 · 1 various-artists compilation
remixes
15% of releasesRemixes appear regularly
27 of the 180 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Chris Lake, Cages
◢ how often the roster changes
18
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
43 of 101
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
2.8
releases a month
67 records in 24 months
◢ first records here, by year
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.
◢ on the charts, week by week
new entries
week of 12 oct: 0 new entries · 1 top-20 placement · avg rank ▲ 19.9 places
pathVariety Music, Cr2 Records +6 → Black Book Records → tszr, When Stars Align +48 before · 6 afterpath into
Black Book RecordsVariety Music14Cr2 Records12Lapsus Music11Snatch! Records11Black Book Recordstszr88 before · 6 after ↓◢ path into Black Book Recordswhere Black Book Records artists released before and after
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01 · before · artists released here first
- Variety Musictier 314 artists
- Cr2 Recordstier 112 artists
- Lapsus Musictier 211 artists
- Snatch! Recordstier 111 artists
- Club Sessionno tier10 artists
- Glasgow Undergroundtier 19 artists
- IN / ROTATION (Insomniac Records)tier 29 artists
- RH2tier 39 artists
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02 · this label
Black Book Records
03 · after · released here next
- tszrtier 18 artists
- When Stars Aligntier 15 artists
- AFFAIRStier 14 artists
- Cercle Recordstier 23 artists
- Make The Girls Dance Recordstier 13 artists
- Tomorrowland Musictier 33 artists
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 84 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Insomniac Records (10), Defected Records (7), Repopulate Mars (7), Toolroom (7), Club Sweat (5), Higher Ground (5), Nervous Records (5), Nothing Else Matters (5)
7 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 167
◢ who's on it
16 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 47 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
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- Insomniac Records (10), Defected Records (7) and Repopulate Mars (7) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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