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Positiva
455 releases tracked · 193 producers · latest jul 2026
Scene: Festival & crossover house
4 tracks · 3 charting artists · 49 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · emerging
Founded in 1993 by Nick Halkes, Positiva began as a house label before shifting to mainstream dance output. Halkes had previously run XL Recordings. A subsidiary of Universal Music Group, the label has operated under Virgin EMI Records since 2012. Its headquarters are at the Universal UK offices, and it is the only large dance music label under the EMI banner in the UK.
siteUnited Kingdom
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
76% one genreDance / Pop, then House and Drum & Bass
76% of the 455 releases we can tag · 8 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±14 BPM124 BPM typical, 105–133 across four in five releases
455 of 455 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 30.2 per record
2 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
9.5 yrs medianProducers here had a median 9.5 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 26 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
10 of 10
last debut
3 months ago
new here Kolter (Jul) · Laura Davie (Jul)
all 10 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
88% solo/duoSolo or duo originals — a single or a two-tracker
counting compilations too, 408 of 464 · 3 various-artists compilations
remixes
37% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
169 of the 455 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Syn Cole, Paul Woolford, HUGEL
◢ how often the roster changes
7
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
49 of 82
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
2.7
releases a month
64 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.
pathToolroom, Hot Creations +6 → Positiva → Helix Records, Disorder +58 before · 7 afterpath into
PositivaToolroom8Hot Creations5Nervous Records5Atlantic Records UK4PositivaHelix Records108 before · 7 after ↓◢ path into Positivawhere Positiva artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Toolroomtier 18 artists
- Hot Creationstier 15 artists
- Nervous Recordstier 15 artists
- Atlantic Records UKtier 24 artists
- Crosstown Rebelstier 14 artists
- Afterlife Recordsno tier3 artists
- Higher Groundtier 33 artists
- Insomniac Recordstier 13 artists
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02 · this label
Positiva
03 · after · released here next
- Helix Recordstier 210 artists
- Disordertier 25 artists
- Tomorrowland Musictier 35 artists
- Hellbent Recordstier 13 artists
- THRIVEtier 23 artists
- Tinted Recordstier 13 artists
- tszrtier 13 artists
show all 7 ↓show fewer ↑
each count = artists here who also released there, out of 42 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Armada Music (9), Sweat It Out (6), Ultra Records (5), Defected Records (4), Club Sweat (3), Cr2 Records (3), SPINNIN' DEEP (3)
16 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 193
◢ who's on it
5 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 31 have pages here · showing 20, newest chart date first
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- Armada Music (9), Sweat It Out (6) and Ultra Records (5) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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