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440 releases tracked from 2019 · 275 producers · latest oct 2026
Scene: Festival & crossover house · also in Afro house
5 tracks · 7 charting artists · 29 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Higher Ground is a house-music label launched by Diplo in 2019, his second label alongside Mad Decent. Its first release, catalogue number HIGH001, was Walker & Royce's 'Rave Grave', featuring VNSSA.
sound
35% one genreDance / Pop, then Electronica and Tech House
35% of the 440 releases we can tag · 1 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±6 BPM126 BPM typical, 121–132 across four in five releases
440 of 440 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 30.1 per record
4 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
6.7 yrs medianProducers here had a median 6.7 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 77 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
new here GREG 99 (Sep) · Ordley (Sep)
20 of the 36 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
66% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 309 of 465 · 15 various-artists compilations
remixes
24% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
84 of the 348 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Vintage Culture, Angelos, CID
15
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
122 of 153
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
3.7
releases a month
88 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.
01 · before · artists released here first
02 · this label
Higher Ground
03 · after · released here next
each count = artists here who also released there, out of 106 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Insomniac Records (13), Ultra Records (8), Defected Records (7), Armada Music (6), Club Sweat (6), Helix Records (5), Sweat It Out (5), Tomorrowland Music (5)
13 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 275
11 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 49 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
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