Which Label Won Q1 2026?

#1 Republic finished Q1 2026 with a 9.98% current share. Still number one, but also the first time the label has dipped below 10% since 2022. Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl and Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem drove Republic's quarter. Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version) and The Tortured Poets Department, Wallen's One Thing at a Time, and Drake's For All the Dogs all aged into catalog status this quarter.

#2 Atlantic jumped to second at 8.76%, its highest current share since 2022. Bruno Mars, Don Toliver, Kehlani, and Alex Warren carried the quarter. Worth noting: 10K Projects, which now sits under Atlantic's umbrella, wasn't folded into its numbers until Q3 2025, so the year-over-year comparison isn't clean. 10K alone accounts for 1.69% of that share.

#3 Interscope Geffen A&M dropped to third at 7.95%, down from 12.67% in Q1 2025 when it was the top label in the country. Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft and Gracie Abrams' The Secret of Us both moved to catalog.

#4 Warner Records came in fourth at 5.54%, with Zach Bryan's January release doing the heavy lifting.

#5 Columbia surged to fifth at 5.49%, up from 4.25% last year, on the back of Harry Styles, Ella Langley, and Dominic Fike.

#6 Capitol Music Group held sixth at 4.92%.

#7 RCA slid to seventh at 3.23%, down from 4.83% and fifth place a year ago.

Rounding out the top ten: Alamo Records at 2.11%, Sony Music Nashville at 1.91%, and Sony Music Latin at 1.74%.

The bigger story is the indie sector. By label ownership, indies collectively held 44.15% of the U.S. current market. Larger than any single major label group. Bad Bunny on Rimas and Djo on Djo Music were two of the biggest drivers.