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Ibadan Sound
12 releases tracked from 2022 · 23 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Soulful house
4 tracks · 4 charting artists · 21 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Ibadan Sound is based in Berlin, Germany. Its catalogue includes Ibadan's 30th Anniversary Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Jerome Sydenham is credited on releases including Ma Foom Bey, I Wish I, and Crucified, with other releases featuring Fatima Njai, Dennis Ferrer, Ron Trent, and Aybee alongside him.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
58% one genreDeep House, then House
58% of the 12 releases we can tag · 7 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±2 BPM126 BPM typical, 124–128 across four in five releases
12 of 12 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
no tier4 chart entries
chart entries per record since July; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
21.3 yrs medianProducers here had a median 21.3 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 9 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
last debut
1 month ago
new here Bongani (Sep) · Dennis Ferrer (Sep)
format
29% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 4 of 14 · 4 various-artists compilations
remixes
36% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
4 of the 11 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Jerome Sydenham
◢ how often the roster changes
3
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
2 of 13
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
3
releases a year
6 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.
pathBBE Music, Defected Records +1 → Ibadan Sound3 beforepath into
Ibadan SoundBBE Music3Defected Records3Rekids3Ibadan Sound3 before ↓◢ path into Ibadan Soundwhere Ibadan Sound artists released before and after
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01 · before · artists released here first
- BBE Musictier 13 artists
- Defected Recordstier 13 artists
- Rekidstier 13 artists
02 · this label
Ibadan Sound
03 · after · released here next
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 9 traced
6 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 23
◢ who's on it
4 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 9 have pages here
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