Choosing the music label

The music label for my artist is very important as that is the thing that will promote my artist and make her noticed. The first thing I did was look up pop punk music labels and this is what came up:

I then looked through all of the labels to see if I recognised any of them. I thought this was a good idea as a recognisable label means that it will be popular therefore likely to have more noticed artists which is important as it means my artist will be able to get promoted well. It also means that people who listen to other artists from that label might think to listen to my artist.

A label I recognised was Epitaph records.

Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record label. Gurewitz took the name from a King Crimson song of the same name. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s most of the bands on Epitaph were punk and pop punk groups, while there are many post-hardcore and emo bands signed to the label as well. A large portion of the record label, known as Hellcat Records, is owned by Tim Armstrong, frontman of the punk rock band Rancid. Several sister-labels also exist, such as ANTI-, Burning Heart Records, Fat Possum Records, Hellcat Records and Heart & Skull Records that have signed other types of bands.

Here are a few artists signed to Epitaph Records:

This would be a good label for my artist as it includes a lot of rock artists which is the same genre as my artist.















I didn't recognise any other labels as one thing I realised was that most if not all of the labels that appeared where independent labels, which shows how much the big 3 effect whether or not an artist is noticed.

My chosen label is Epitaph records as I feel it represents the genre of my artist well, and it is a well known independent label.