| Label |
Top Twenty 1962 |
Point Total 1962 |
Number Ones 1962 |
| RCA Victor |
18 |
1342 |
3 |
| ABC-Paramount |
7 |
806 |
2 |
| Vee-Jay |
5 |
751 |
3 |
| Cameo |
8 |
723 |
0 |
| Parkway |
5 |
632 |
1 |
| MGM |
6 |
557 |
2 |
| Decca |
9 |
527 |
0 |
| Atco |
6 |
469 |
1 |
| Columbia |
7 |
366 |
0 |
| Colpix |
6 |
363 |
1 |
| Warner Brothers |
6 |
350 |
0 |
| Laurie |
4 |
349 |
0 |
| Smash |
2 |
345 |
1 |
| Mercury |
8 |
339 |
0 |
| Roulette |
4 |
315 |
1 |
| Capitol |
5 |
308 |
0 |
| Scepter |
2 |
298 |
1 |
| EPIC |
2 |
277 |
1 |
| Liberty |
7 |
249 |
0 |
| Musicor |
3 |
242 |
0 |
| Seville |
2 |
231 |
0 |
| Dimension |
3 |
225 |
1 |
| Imperial |
3 |
205 |
0 |
| Garpax |
1 |
185 |
1 |
| Cadence |
3 |
169 |
0 |
| United Artists |
3 |
165 |
0 |
| Kapp |
1 |
155 |
0 |
| LeGrand |
2 |
155 |
0 |
| Motown |
2 |
137 |
0 |
| Stax |
1 |
135 |
0 |
| Dot |
3 |
125 |
0 |
| a.f.o. |
1 |
124 |
0 |
| Tamla |
3 |
121 |
0 |
| Gordy |
1 |
118 |
0 |
| Monogram |
1 |
114 |
0 |
| London |
1 |
111 |
1 |
| Argo |
1 |
110 |
0 |
| Del-fi |
3 |
88 |
0 |
| ERA |
1 |
87 |
0 |
| BIGTOP |
1 |
86 |
0 |
| A & M |
1 |
86 |
0 |
| Chancellor |
1 |
79 |
0 |
| Lenox |
1 |
78 |
0 |
| Monument |
1 |
75 |
0 |
| COED |
2 |
70 |
0 |
| Ace |
1 |
57 |
0 |
| Todd |
1 |
51 |
0 |
| Jamie |
1 |
46 |
0 |
| Chess |
1 |
37 |
0 |
| Dore |
1 |
35 |
0 |
| Old Town |
1 |
32 |
0 |
| Verve |
1 |
19 |
0 |
| Tuff |
1 |
15 |
0 |
| Joy |
1 |
12 |
0 |
| Wand |
1 |
11 |
0 |
| Newtown |
1 |
11 |
0 |
| Reprise |
1 |
10 |
0 |
| Enjoy |
1 |
8 |
0 |
| Caprice |
1 |
7 |
0 |
| Canadian American |
1 |
5 |
0 |
| Gone |
1 |
4 |
0 |
| Gone |
1 |
4 |
0 |
| Fury |
1 |
2 |
0 |
| Philips |
1 |
2 |
0 |
| Fire |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| Jell |
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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| Neil Sedaka was the #2 artist for RCA in 1962 with three top ten hits, including his first #1, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do." |
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| Ray Charles propelled ABC-Paramount into second place on the power point chart along with Tommy Roe's "Sheila," which was his first release on the label and went to #1. |
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| Vee-Jay had three number one records in 1962, two by The Four Seasons and "The Duke of Earl" by Gene Chandler. |
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| "The Lonely Bull" was A&M's first release. The Tijuana Brass heard on the record was Herb Alpert overdubbing his own trumpet. For the other cuts on the album titled "The Lonely Bull" Alpert used the L.A. sessions musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew." |
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| "The Peppermint Twist" was a carry-over hit from 1961 that reached #1 in January of 1962. It was one of four top twenty entries for Roulette records -- all by Joey Dee & The Starliters. |
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| Mercury's success in 1962 was provided by the novelty record, "Ahab the Arab." |
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