Def Jam has been one of the most recognizable hip-hop labels in the genre, ever since it’s inception in 1984. Fast-forward 31 years and numerous amounts of record breaking music, the label is now being dubbed the most successful hip-hop record label of all time. This is all according to a study conducted by New York consultant Matt Daniels. What Daniels did was to analyze the chart history of different record labels, to decipher who was most successful. The results went according to how many hits the label landed on the Billboard charts. Def Jam was top-dog with a whopping 152 songs by 48 artists that spending 1,925 week on the charts. The standout artists that made this possible were DMX, 2 Chainz, Erick Sermon, EPMD and Ja Rule.
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Young Money is the second most successful label in hip-hop with 83 chart-topping tracks that spent 1,322 weeks on the charts. Roc-A-Fella Records came in at the third slot with 86 songs that spent a total of 1293 weeks on the charts thanks to artists like Jay Z, Cam’ron, Kanye West, Beanie Sigel, Amil and Memphis Bleek. Jive Records artists spent 1,255 weeks on the charts with 106 tracks by artists like A Tribe Called Quest, Chris Brown and Ice Cube. Bad Boy Records rounded out the top five with 56 of their hits spending 1,060 weeks on the charts.
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