| DTA | American record label founded in 2019 |
| ASYLUM | American record label founded in 1971, specifically to provide a record contract for Jackson Browne |
| ARISTA | ___ Records, American record label founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, whose biggest selling recording artist was Whitney Houston |
| REPRISE | American record label founded by Frank Sinatra in 1960 (7) |
| ATCO | Record label founded in '55 |
| DECCA | Name of a record label founded in 1929 (5) |
| VIRGIN | British record label founded in 1972 |
| MOTOWN | R&B record label founded in Detroit (6) |
| HYPERION | Classical music record label, founded in 1980 (8) |
| CHARISMA | British record label, founded in 1969 by Tony Stratton-Smith, whose acts included Genesis and Monty Python (8) |
| ISLAND | ____ Records, record label founded in 1959 whose logo is a palm tree (6) |
| STAX | American record label, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee, whose biggest star was Otis Redding |
| ANTI | American record label |
| TRADE | Independent record label founded by Geoff Travis in 1978, from his record shop in West London (5,5) |
| ROUGH | Independent record label founded by Geoff Travis in 1978, from his record shop in West London (5,5) |
| SIRE | American label founded in '66 |
| TAMLAMOTOWN | American record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr (5,6) |
| GRAMMY | Annual award in the American record industry (6) |
| ROUGHTRADE | Independent record label founded by Geoff Travis in 1978, which developed from his West London record shop |
| CHESS | Record label founded by the brothers Leonard and Phil in Chicago in 1950 |
