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Ninja Tune
1,185 releases tracked from 1992 · 690 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Festival & crossover house
9 tracks · 7 charting artists · 22 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · emerging
Ninja Tune was formed in London in 1990 by Matt Black and Jonathan More, the duo known as Coldcut. The label remains 100% independent and won 'Independent Label of the Year' at the 2018 AIM awards. It has released Top-5 UK charting albums from Bicep, Bonobo, and Black Country, New Road, and a Top-10 album from Young Fathers. The label relaunched its Big Dada imprint as a label run by its Black, POC & Minority Ethnic staff. Ninja Tune entered a partnership with ODESZA’s Foreign Family Collective to release, promote, and distribute their catalogue worldwide, and has a longstanding partnership with Brainfeeder to release, promote, and distribute that label's catalogue worldwide. The label's roster has included GRAMMY-nominated artists such as Bonobo, ODESZA, Jayda G, Hiatus Kaiyote, Louis Cole, and Thundercat.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
64% one genreElectronica, then House and Dance / Pop
64% of the 1,185 releases we can tag · 6 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±39 BPM121 BPM typical, 83–160 across four in five releases
1,181 of 1,185 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 30.2 per record
14 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
7.9 yrs medianProducers here had a median 7.9 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 38 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
29 of 72
last debut
1 month ago
new here SOARR (Sep) · Saskia (Sep)
29 of the 72 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
75% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 1,066 of 1,427 · 56 various-artists compilations
remixes
17% of releasesRemixes appear regularly
161 of the 960 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Darq E Freaker, Floating Points, Lapalux
◢ how often the roster changes
13
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
62 of 122
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
6.2
releases a month
148 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.
pathAnjunadeep, Cercle Records +6 → Ninja Tune → LW Recordings, Atlantic Records UK +58 before · 7 afterpath into
Ninja TuneAnjunadeep6Cercle Records6Crosstown Rebels6Insomniac Records6Ninja TuneLW Recordings68 before · 7 after ↓◢ path into Ninja Tunewhere Ninja Tune artists released before and after
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01 · before · artists released here first
- Anjunadeeptier 16 artists
- Cercle Recordstier 26 artists
- Crosstown Rebelstier 16 artists
- Insomniac Recordstier 16 artists
- Armada Electronic Elementstier 35 artists
- Get Physical Musictier 15 artists
- CircoLoco Recordsno tier4 artists
- Disordertier 24 artists
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02 · this label
Ninja Tune
03 · after · released here next
- LW Recordingstier 36 artists
- Atlantic Records UKtier 25 artists
- BBE Musictier 14 artists
- DFTDtier 13 artists
- Hard Times Recordsno tier3 artists
- Helix Recordstier 23 artists
- Maison Artstier 23 artists
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 70 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Defected Records (6), Armada Music (3), Black Book Records (3), Higher Ground (3), Ultra Records (3)
209 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 690
◢ who's on it
4 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 24 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
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- Defected Records (6), Armada Music (3) and Black Book Records (3) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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