Glitterbox Recordings

140 releases tracked from 2005 · 173 producers · latest aug 2026

17 tracks · 10 charting artists · 29 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active

Glitterbox Recordings, a sublabel of Defected, serves as the copyright company for the Glitterbox brand and hosts events at Amnesia in Ibiza, as well as in Amsterdam, Hannover, and Liverpool, while also running a radio show.

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◢ what the catalogue measures

sound

51% one genre

House, then Nu Disco / Indie Dance and Dance / Pop

51% of the 140 releases we can tag · 6 of the last 12 we could tag

tempo

±5 BPM

122 BPM typical, 116–126 across four in five releases

91 of 140 releases carry a tempo reading

career stage

17.5 yrs median

Producers here had a median 17.5 years of releases before their first record on the label

across 59 producers whose earlier history we can follow

format

50% solo/duo

Solo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases

counting compilations too, 85 of 170 · 30 various-artists compilations

remixes

62% of releases

Remixes are a large part of the catalogue

56 of the 91 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Dr Packer, Dimitri From Paris, Aeroplane

◢ how often the roster changes

5

new names a year

averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace

51%

get a second record

28 of the 55 producers who debuted here over a year ago released again

10.5

releases a year

21 records in 24 months

◢ first records here, by year

29releases · first-time signings02016 · 1 release · 2 first-time signings20162017 · 9 releases · 13 first-time signings2018 · 7 releases · 17 first-time signings2019 · 14 releases · 25 first-time signings2020 · 29 releases · 29 first-time signings2021 · 11 releases · 8 first-time signings2022 · 11 releases · 19 first-time signings2023 · 16 releases · 16 first-time signings2024 · 13 releases · 10 first-time signings2025 · 13 releases · 16 first-time signings2026 · 5 releases · 8 first-time signings2026

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.

which labels sign new artists →

◢ on the charts, week by week

11chart placements / week0w/o 6 jul · 9 charting tracksw/o 13 jul · 7 charting tracksw/o 20 jul · 7 charting tracksw/o 27 jul · 6 charting tracksw/o 3 aug · 8 charting tracksw/o 10 aug · 7 charting tracksw/o 17 aug · 9 charting tracks · 2 neww/o 24 aug · 10 charting tracks · 2 neww/o 31 aug · 11 charting tracks · 2 neww/o 7 sep · 11 charting tracks · 2 new11w/o 6 jul7 sep

new entries

week of 7 sep: 2 new entries · 4 top-20 placements · avg rank ▲ 5.1 places

◢ where the roster releases

came fromof 59 traced

labels this roster released on before their first record here

went on toof 59 traced

labels the same producers released on afterwards

also releasing onof 173

labels sharing this roster in the same period

26 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 173

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