| Label |
Top Twenty 1963 |
Point Total 1963 |
Number Ones 1963 |
| Capitol |
14 |
1063 |
1 |
| Columbia |
13 |
934 |
1 |
| RCA Victor |
16 |
909 |
1 |
| EPIC |
5 |
680 |
2 |
| Dot |
5 |
590 |
1 |
| Warner Brothers |
5 |
492 |
0 |
| Mercury |
5 |
487 |
1 |
| Philips |
3 |
464 |
2 |
| ABC-Paramount |
6 |
440 |
0 |
| Cameo |
7 |
398 |
1 |
| Tamla |
4 |
382 |
1 |
| Liberty |
4 |
370 |
1 |
| Vee-Jay |
3 |
355 |
1 |
| Smash |
3 |
331 |
1 |
| Parkway |
7 |
327 |
0 |
| Laurie |
2 |
315 |
1 |
| Atlantic |
4 |
300 |
0 |
| Roulette |
3 |
293 |
1 |
| MGM |
5 |
241 |
1 |
| United Artists |
2 |
230 |
0 |
| Decca |
5 |
216 |
0 |
| Kapp |
5 |
209 |
1 |
| Monument |
3 |
203 |
0 |
| Valiant |
1 |
191 |
0 |
| Reprise |
2 |
187 |
0 |
| Vanguard |
1 |
179 |
1 |
| Atco |
1 |
170 |
1 |
| Gordy |
2 |
145 |
0 |
| Tuff |
1 |
131 |
0 |
| Colpix |
3 |
127 |
0 |
| Brunswick |
1 |
118 |
0 |
| Fraternity |
1 |
109 |
0 |
| London |
1 |
100 |
0 |
| Scepter |
3 |
98 |
0 |
| Wand |
1 |
93 |
0 |
| Motown |
2 |
92 |
0 |
| Okeh |
2 |
88 |
0 |
| Cadence |
2 |
83 |
0 |
| Fabor |
1 |
82 |
0 |
| Diamond |
1 |
77 |
0 |
| Dimension |
4 |
76 |
0 |
| Verve |
1 |
74 |
0 |
| Musicor |
3 |
74 |
0 |
| Symbol |
1 |
74 |
0 |
| Imperial |
1 |
62 |
0 |
| Stax |
1 |
62 |
0 |
| Rust |
1 |
49 |
0 |
| Battle |
1 |
42 |
0 |
| Chattahoochie |
1 |
39 |
0 |
| Sound Stage 7 |
1 |
37 |
0 |
| Chess |
1 |
33 |
0 |
| Seville |
1 |
33 |
0 |
| Teardrop |
1 |
26 |
0 |
| BIGTOP |
1 |
20 |
0 |
| Chairman |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| Amy |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| A & M |
1 |
8 |
0 |
| Lenox |
1 |
8 |
0 |
| Congress |
1 |
8 |
0 |
| King |
1 |
5 |
0 |
| Tico |
1 |
5 |
0 |
| Jubilee |
1 |
4 |
0 |
| Galaxy |
1 |
4 |
0 |
| ERIC |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| Musicnote |
1 |
1 |
0 |
*The Power Points are based on how the record did in the weekly Billboard top twenty. For each week a record was in the top twenty it is awarded one point for each ranking slot -- the 20th ranked record would receive one point, while the top record would receive 20 points for that week. If a record is in the top ten, it received 5 bonus points and if a record was ranked #1, it received 5 bonus points. The power points for a label is the total of all the points earned by records from that label that made the top twenty for at least one week. The top twenty for 1956, 1957, and 1958 through July 28th are taken from the Top 100 chart which had been in use since 1955 in an effort to combine the Best Seller, Most Played by Jockeys, and Most Played by Jukeboxes charts. With the publication of the Hot 100, the Best Seller, the other charts were soon all abandoned and all top twenty listings from August 4th, 1958 through 1963 (end of the Elvis Era), are taken from the Billboard Hot 100. |
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| Click on the appropriate button above to view an historical acccount of the record labels for the year, a chart ranking the popularity of the labels in the Billboard top twenty for the year, or a list of the labels that had records in the top twenty for the year. |
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| Capitol had the top ranking of 1963, led by the Beach Boys who had the second best record of the year according to Billboard. |
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| Dion was the only rock and roll act to help Columbia's #2 ranking. |
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| Elvis Presley did not have a #1 for RCA, but Little Peggy March did with "I Will Follow Him." |
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| Cameo & Parkway each had 7 top twenty records -- The Tyme's #1 hit, "So Much In Love" was actually issued as a Cameo / Parkway product but is credited here to Cameo. |
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| The Motown sound was on the rise in 1963. Martha & The Vandellas were responsible for Gordy's two top twenty records. |
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