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XL Recordings
783 releases tracked from 1991 · 334 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Festival & crossover house
2 tracks · 2 charting artists · 13 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · emerging
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
41% one genreElectronica, then House and Dance / Pop
41% of the 783 releases we can tag · 6 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±33 BPM118 BPM typical, 83–148 across four in five releases
782 of 783 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
4.7 yrs medianProducers here had a median 4.7 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 19 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
18 of 36
last debut
1 month ago
new here 300SkullsAndCounting (Sep) · Jenny Sparks (Sep)
18 of the 36 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
87% solo/duoSolo or duo originals — a single or a two-tracker
counting compilations too, 747 of 862 · 30 various-artists compilations
remixes
18% of releasesRemixes appear regularly
138 of the 783 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Four Tet, Diplo, Jamie Smith
◢ how often the roster changes
8.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
33 of 80
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
3.5
releases a month
85 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.
pathCrosstown Rebels, Global Underground +1 → XL Recordings3 beforepath into
XL RecordingsCrosstown Rebels4Global Underground4Rekids4XL Recordings3 before ↓◢ path into XL Recordingswhere XL Recordings artists released before and after
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01 · before · artists released here first
- Crosstown Rebelstier 14 artists
- Global Undergroundtier 24 artists
- Rekidstier 14 artists
02 · this label
XL Recordings
03 · after · released here next
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 30 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Ultra Records (4)
93 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 334
◢ who's on it
1 artist charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 16 have pages here
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- Ultra Records (4) shares producers with this roster in the same period.
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