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Name of music label	country	Seat	founder	Year-from	Year-up	Label code	Website	Mother label	Details
D records	United States		Pappy Dailey	1958
DPG Recordz	United States		Daz Dillinger, Soopafly	2000
Da Lench Mob Records	United States		Ice Cube	1990				Universal Music Group
Dabbelju Music	Germany		Wolfgang Löhr	1991
Daemon Records	United States		Amy Ray	1990
Daesung entertainment	South Korea		Lee Ho-yeon	1991				DSP Media
Daffodil Records	United States		Blossom Dearie	1974
Dallas Records	Croatia		Goran Lisica	1994
Damaged Goods	United Kingdom			1988
Dame Dash Music Group	United States		Lady Dash
Damon Records	United States
Dana Records	United States		Walter Dana	1945
Danse Macabre (label)	Germany		Bruno Kramm , Norbert Juhas	1990		LC 06249
Dance mania	United States		Jesse Saunders	1985
Dance pool	Germany		Stefan Trapp	1988					Was merged with the Sony subsidiaries Epidrome and Adrenalin in the late 1990s to form the Dance Division label in 1999
Dance To The Radio	United Kingdom			2004
Dancing Cat Records	United States		George Winston	1983
Dancing Ferret	United States		Patrick Rodgers	1995
Dancing Turtle Records	United Kingdom		Dominic Brown	2005
Dandelion Records	United Kingdom		John Peel	1969	1972
Danger Crue Records	Japan			1981				Maverick DC Group
Dangerbird Records	United States	los Angeles	Peter Walker and Jeff Castelaz	2004
Dangerhouse Records	United States		David Brown, Pat Garrett and Black Randy	1977	1980
Dare to Care Records	Canada		Éli Bissonnette and Hugo Mudie	2000
Daptone Records	United States		Gabriel Roth and Neal Sugarman	2001
Daredo	Germany			2004
Dark Descent Records	United States	Colorado Springs	Matt Calvert	2009
Dark Horse Records	United Kingdom		George Harrison	1974
Darker Than Black Records	Germany		Hendrik Möbus	1994
Darkest maze	Japan		Kiwamu	2000
Darla Records	United States		James Agren	1994
dataObscura	Canada	London (Ontario)	Anthony Paul Kerby	2002			dataobscura.com
Data records	United Kingdom			1999				Ministry of Sound
David Popular Production	Germany		Clay stones shards	1971
Dawn Raid Entertainment	New Zealand		Danny "Brotha D" Leaosavai'i and Andy Murnane	1999
Dawn Records (American music label)	United States		Sidney Siegel	1954				Seeco Records
Dawn Records (British music label)	United Kingdom			1970				Pye Records
Day-Glo Records	Germany			1989
Daylight Records	United States		David Massey	1998	Extinguished			Sony Music Entertainment
DaySpring Records	United States		Jarrell McCracken, Henry SoRelle and Ted Snider	1951				Curb Records
DB records	United States	Atlanta	Danny Beard	1978
D-Block Records	United States	Yonkers	Jason "Jadakiss" Phillips, David "Styles P" Styles, and Sean "Sheek Louch" Jacobs	2003
DC Flag Records	United States	los Angeles	Columbia Records	1953				Sony Music Entertainment
DCide	United States	Washington, DC	Jeffrey B. Clyburn, Burton Gray, and Mark Thorp	1995
DC-Jam Records	United States	Springfield, Missouri	Darron Hemman	2006
De la Planta	Uruguay		Jorge "Coyo" Abuchalja	1969
De Luxe Records	United States		David Braun and Jules Braun	1944
Dead Oceans Records	United States	Bloomington	Ben Swanson, Chris Swanson, Darius Van Arman, Jonathan Cargill and Phil Waldorf	2007
Dead Reckoning Records	United States	Nashville	Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane, Mike Henderson, Tammy Rogers and Harry Stinson	1994
Dead Serious Records	Germany		Ben Gottschalk and Andreas Werner	2000
Deaf American Recordings	United States	Dillsburg	Rich Hoak	1993
Deaf Records	United Kingdom							Peaceville Records
Deafground Records	Germany		Marcus Hartmann, Deborah Schweser	2011
DEAG German Entertainment	Germany		Jochen Zanke and Peter Schwenkow	1978
Deathlike Silence Productions	Norway		Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth
Death Row Records	United States		Suge Knight , Dr. Dre	1991	1996			Death Row Entertainment LLC (WIDEawake / Warner / EMI )
Deathwish Inc.	United States		Jacob Bannon, Tre McCarthy	2011
Debemur Morti	France			2003
Debut Records	United States		Charles Mingus and Max Roach	1952	1957				The debut recordings now appear in the Fantasy Records catalog
Decaydance Records	United States	New York City	Pete Wentz	2005
Decca Records	United Kingdom			1929
Deceptive Records	United Kingdom		Steve Lamacq, Tony Smith and Alan James	1992	2001
Deck8	Germany
Decon Records	United States	New York City	Peter Bittenbender and Jason Goldwatch	2003
Deconstruction Records	United Kingdom	London	Pete Hadfield, Keith Blackhurst and Mike Pickering	1987
Deep Elm Records	United States	Maui	John Szuch	1995
Deep Krate Recordingz	United States		Wax Murdaraz	2005
Deep Shag Records	United States	Atlanta	Michael Reed	2000
Deep Soul Records	United Kingdom		Dave Godin, David Nathan and Robert Blackmore	1969
Def American	United States		Rick Rubin	1988		LC 07181
Def Jam Records	United States	New York City	Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons	1984		LC 8427		Universal Music Group
Def Jam South	United States	New York City	Russell Simmons	1999				The Island Def Jam Music Group (1999-2014) Def Jam Recordings (2014 - present)
Defected Records	United Kingdom		Simon Dunmore	1998
Defiance Records	Germany	Cologne
Definitive joke	United States		Jaime Meline ( El-P ), Amaechi Uzoigwe	1999	2010
Defstar Records	Japan		Takashi Yoshida	2000	2015			Warner Music Japan (1997-2000) Sony Music Entertainment Japan (2000-2014)	The label was founded in 1997 under the name T Project and renamed Defstar Records in 2000
Dekema Records	United States	Woodinville	Edward Dekema	1991
Delerium Records	United Kingdom	Chalfont St. Peter	Richard Allen and Ivor Trueman	1991	2003
Del-Fi Records	United States		Bob Keane	1957
Delicious vinyl	United States	los Angeles	Matt Dike and Michael Ross	1987
Déliciouse Records	France
Delicacy sound carrier	Germany	Hamburg	Fred Noel, Lisa Noel and Kathrin Johner	2005	2015		LC 27904
Delirium Records	United States		Curt Sautter	1992
Delmark Records	United States		Bob Koester	1953
Delphine Records	France	Paris	Paul de Senneville	1976
Deltasonic	United Kingdom	Liverpool	Alan Wills	2000
Deluxe Records	Germany		Samy Deluxe	2003	2009
Dembitzer Records	Poland		Ireneusz Socha
Demon Music Group	United Kingdom			1982				BBC Worldwide	The Demon Music Group goes back to the British independent label Demon Records founded by Jake Riviera , Elvis Costello and Adrew Lauder in 1980, which in turn was taken over by Crimson Productions in 1998.
Demon Records	United Kingdom	London	Andrew Lauder and Jake Riviera	1980				BBC Worldwide
Denon	Japan			1969
Denovali Records	Germany		Timo Alterauge and Thomas Hack	2005
Density Records	United States			2007				Vagrant Records
Dental Records	United Kingdom	Ipswich
Dented Records	United Kingdom		Foreign Beggars	2003
Department of Music	Germany		Jan-Simon Wolff, Sebastian Andrej Schweizer, Steffen Posner, Kodimey Awokou , Niko Papadopoulos	2012
Dependent Music	Canada	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia	Brian Borcherdt	1994	Extinguished
Dependent Records	Germany			1999	2007	LC 10270
Deptford Fun City Records	United States		Miles Copeland III, Stewart Copeland, Paul Mulligan	1977	1980			Illegal Records
Deram Records	United Kingdom	London		1966				Decca Records
Derby Records (1949)	United States		Larry Newton and Eddie Heller	1949	1954
Derrty entertainment	United States	St. Louis	Cornell Haynes Junior	2003				Universal Music Group
Desco Records	United States		Philippe Lehman and Gabriel Roth	1996	2000
Desert Storm Records	United States		DJ clue	1998
DeSoto Records	United States	Washington, DC	Bill Barbot and Kim Coletta	1989
Desperation Records	Canada		Barenaked ladies	2004
The records	United States	New York City		1960s	1980s
Destiny Worldwide Records	United States	Monroe		2006
Deutsche Grammophon	Germany		Emil Berliner	1898				Universal Music Group	Joined PolyGram in 1972 and Universal Music Group in 1998
German Harmonia Mundi	Germany		Rudolf Ruby	1958				Sony Music Entertainment
Deviant Records	United Kingdom		Rob Deacon	Mid 1990s
Dew Process	Australia	Brisbane	Paul Piticco
Dewdrops Records	United States		Brant Nelson and Pat Mannion	1993	2002
DFA Records	United States		Tim Goldsworthy, James Murphy and Jonathan Galkin	2001
DF Music Organization	United States	Beverly Hills	Dmitrii Marquize D. Miachin, Alexander Gavrilov and Yuri Pavlov	2004
DFP-Music	Switzerland		Reto winter	1985	2006
DFTBA Records	United States	Missoula	Hank Green and John Green	2008
DGC Records	United States	Santa Monica	David Geffen	1990				Universal Music Group
Dharam Seva Records	United Kingdom		Kaka Mohanwalia and Bill Mato	2013
Dial records	United States		Ross Russell	1946
Dial Records (1964)	United States
Dial Records (1998)	United States
Dial Records (1999)	Germany
Diamante Music Group	United States	Newport Beach	Bill Conine	1993
Diamond Cut Productions	United States		Craig Maier and Rick Carlson	1986
Diamond Music	United States		Iván Joy	2000				Artist system
Diamond Records	United States		Joe Kolsky and Phil Kolsky	1961	1971
Diatribe Recordings	Ireland			1999
Dice Records (1950 / 60's NY label)	United States
Dick Bros Record Company	United Kingdom	Haddington	Fish	1993
The city (label)	Germany	Bremen	Jochen Schwarz	1995			diestadtmusik.de
Dieter Koch music publisher	Germany		Dieter Koch	1996	2000
Diffusion Records	United States		Andrew Sega	2001
Dig Records	United States		Frank Gallo, Eddie Mesner, Leo Mesner and Johnny Otis	1955					Originally called Ultra Records
Digital Hardcore Recordings	United Kingdom		Alec Empire	1994
Dimension Records	United States	New York City	Don Kirshner and Al Nevins	1962
DigSin	United States	Nashville	Jay Frank	2011
Dim Mak (label)	United States		Steve Aoki	1996
Dim Records	Germany		Ulrich Großmann ("Uhl")	1991
Dine Alone Records	Canada	Toronto	Joel Carriere	2005
Diplomat Records	United States		Cam'ron	2001
Diplomat Records (budget)	United States		Daniel Nasen and Louis Kasen					Synthetic Plastics Company
Dirtnap Records	United States	Madison	Ken Cheppaikode	1999			Website
Dirtybird Records	United States	San Francisco	Barclay Crenshaw	2005			Website
Dirty Records	New Zealand	Auckland	Pete Wadams and Callum August	2001			Website
Disa Records	Mexico	San Nicolas de los Garza					Website
Dischord Records	United States		Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson	1980
Discipline Global Mobile	United Kingdom	Salisbury	Robert Fripp and David Singleton	1992
Discos Fuentes	Colombia	Medellin	Antonio Fuentes Estrada	1934
Discos Qualiton	Argentina		Nelson Montes-Bradley, Ivan Cosentino, Nora Raffo, Carlos Melero	1961				Fonema SA
Discos Taxco	United States
Discos y Cintas Denver	Mexico
Discovery Records	United States		Albert Marx	1948
DiscReet Records	United States		Frank Zappa and Herb Cohen	1972
Disco B	Germany		Peter Wacha	1991				Sub Up Records
Discotone	Yugoslavia	Sarajevo		1974	1992
Disneyland Records	United States		Roy O. Disney and Jimmy Johnson	1956					Was originally founded under the name "Disneyland Records"
Disorient Records	United Kingdom		David "Mr Bongo" Buttle	1989			Website	Independent
Displeased records	Netherlands		Ron Veltkamp, ​​Lars Eikema	1993
Disques Dreyfus	France	Paris		1991			Website	Francis Dreyfus Music / BMG
Disques Victoire	Canada	Quebec
Disques Vogue	Germany		Charles Delaunay	1947
Distinct'ive Records	United Kingdom	London		1995
Distort entertainment	Canada	Toronto	Greg Below	2002			Website
Distri	Germany		Jonas Okunorobo (Jayo)	2001
Distribution Select	Canada	Quebec		1965				Quebecor Media
Disturbing tha Peace	United States		Chaka Zulu
Diva Records	United States			1925	1931
DIW Records	Japan		Kazunori Sugiyama					Disc Union
Dixie Records (Tennessee)	United States		Starday Record Company	1956	1966			Starday Records
Dixieland Jubilee Records	United States		Gene Norman and Frank Bull	1950s	Extinguished
Dixieland Records	United States	New Orleans		1950s	Extinguished
Diynamic	Germany	Hamburg	Solomun and Adriano Trolio	2006		LC 25511
Djax Records	Netherlands		Saskia Slegers ( Miss Djax )	1989		LC 3791
DJM Records	United Kingdom		Dick James	1969	1986
DM Music Group	United States	Deerfield Beach		1992			Website
DMP records	United States		Tom Jung	1982	2001
Do It Records	United Kingdom	London	Robin Scott, Max Tregoning and Ian Tregoning	1978	1984
Dockyard 1	Germany		Piet Sielck , Christine Stephan and Dirk Putzke
Doctor Dream Records	United States	Orange (California)	Dave Hayes	1982
Document records	United Kingdom		Johnny Parth	1986
Dog Meat Records	Australia			1990s
Doggystyle Records	United States	Diamond Bar	Snoop Dogg	1995				Universal Music Group
Doghouse Records	United States	New York City	Dirk Hemsath	1988
DogmaTone Records	India	Bangalore		2007			Website	DogmaTone
Dolores Recordings	Sweden							Virgin Records
Dolton Records	United States		Bonnie Guitar	1959	1967
Domino Recording Company	United Kingdom	London	Laurence Bell and Jacqui Rice	1993			Website
Domino Records (1916)	United States			1916	1916
Domino Records (1923)	United States			1923	1931			Plaza Music Company
Domino Records (1950s-60s)	United States
Domino Records (1993)	United Kingdom		Laurence Bell and Jacqui Rice	1993		LC 10192
Domo Records	United States	los Angeles	Eiichi Naito	1993			Website
Don Giovanni Records	United States	New Brunswick		2003			Website
Doomentia Records	Czech Republic	Vodňany	Lukáš Páral	2007
Doomtree	United States	Minneapolis	Dessa, Cecil Otter, POS, Sims, Mike Mictlan, Paper Tiger and Lazerbeak	2001			Website
Dopamine Records	United States	Cambridge
Dope House Records	United States	Houston	South Park Mexican, Arthur Coy, Jr.	1995
Doré Records	United States	los Angeles	Lew Bedell and Herb Newman	1958
Dot Dash Recordings	Australia	North Melbourne (Victoria)		2004				Remote control records
Dot records	United States		Randy Wood	1950
Double Moon Records	Germany		Volker Dueck	1998
Double Zero Records	United States	Algonquin	Mike Felumlee	1999
Double-time records	United States	New Albany (Indiana)	Jamey D. Aebersold	1995
Doublemoon	Turkey	Istanbul		1998				Pozitif Productions
Dovecote Records	United States	New York City	Carter Matschullat	2000s
Down Peninsula Audio	United States	Dearborn		2002
Downtown Records	Switzerland			1983
Doxa Records	Germany		R. Jäger and B. Offermann	1999
Drag City	United States		Dan Koretzky, Dan Osborn	1989
Dragon Records	Sweden		Lars Westin	1975
Dragon's Eye Recordings	United States	los Angeles	Paul Novak	1989			dragonseyerecordings.com , Bandcamp		The operator today is Yann Novak
Dragon Street Records	United States	Dallas	David Dennard and Patrick Keel	1989
Drakkar Entertainment	Germany		Bogdan Kopec	1981
Dramatico	Germany		Mike Batt	2003
Draper Inc. Records	United States	Houston	Tony Draper	2002				Suave House Records
Dream Circle Records	Germany		Ole Bergfleth	1992	1999	LC 01314
Dreamboat Records	United Kingdom	Bristol		2005
Dreamville Records	United States	New York City	J. Cole and Ibrahim Hamad	2007			Website	Universal Music Group
DreamWorks Records	United States	Universal City	Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen	1996	2005			Universal Music Group
Drive-Thru Records	United States	Sherman Oaks	Richard Reines and Stefanie Reines	1996	2008		Website
Driven Music Group	United States		Brian "Head" Welch, Mark Nawara and Greg Shanaberger
Drizzly Music	Germany			1993
DRO records	Spain	Madrid	Aviador Dro	1982				Warner Music Group
DROG Records	Canada	Guelph	Dave Teichroeb and Lewis Melville	1993
Drone Records	Germany	Bremen	Stefan Knappe	1993			dronerecords.de
DRT entertainment	United States	New York City	Derek Shulman, Ron Urban and Theodore "Ted" Green	2003
Drum code	Sweden		Adam Beyer and Cari Lekebusch	1996
Drumming Monkey Records	Germany	Dusseldorf	Stephen George Ritchie	2007		LC 15924
DSFA Records	Netherlands				Extinguished
DSN Music	United States		Guy Giuliano	2003				Digital Syndicate Network LLC
Duck Down	United States		Dru Ha (Drew Friedman) and Buckshot (Kenyatta Blake)	1994
Duck Records	United Kingdom		Eric Clapton	1982
Ductape Records	Canada	Toronto	Zach Feldberg	1997
Duke Records	United States		David James Mattis and Bill Fitzgerald	1952	1974
Duke-Peacock	United States		Don Robey , David J. Mattis, Bill Fitzgerald	1952	1975			ABC Dunhill (1973-1975)	The label was formed in 1952 from a partnership between Duke Records and Peacock Records
Duke Street Records	Canada	Toronto	Andrew Hermant	1984	1994
Duna Records	United States		Brant Bjork
Dunhill Records	United States		Lou Adler, Al Bennett, Pierre Cossette and Bobby Roberts	1964	1975			Geffen Records
Dunwich Records	United States	Chicago	Bill Traut, Eddie Higgins and George Badonsky	1965
Duophonic Records	United Kingdom	London	Stereolab
Durium Records	Italy	Milan	Martinengo Airoldi, Alberto Airoldi and others	1935	1989
Dust Traxx Records	United States	Chicago	Radoslaw "Radek" Hawryszczuk	1997
Dutch East India Trading	United States	Rockville Center (New York)			2003
DVS Records	Netherlands		Rene Janssen	2000
Dynamic	Italy	Genoa	Pietro Mosetti Casaretto	1978
Dynamica	Germany		Karl-Ulrich Walterbach and Jorgen Mulder	1989	1997
DynoVoice Records	United States		Bob Crewe	1965	1969
Dødpop	Norway	Oslo	Robert L. Jomisko, Kristian Møller Johansen and Bård Harazi Farbu	2008