Billboard REPUBLIC Label of the Year Dinner Photos

Executives from REPUBLIC Collective, Billboard and the broader music industry came together on Jan. 22 to celebrate the label’s fifth straight year finishing at No. 1 on Billboard’s three leading year-end label charts: Top Labels, Billboard 200 Labels and Billboard Hot 100 Labels. (The Top Labels recap represents aggregated metrics for labels’ performance on the weekly Billboard 200 albums and Hot 100 songs charts combined during the 2025 charting period of Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025.)

Held at the Crane Club in Manhattan, REPUBLIC co-chairs Monte Lipman and Avery Lipman hosted a dinner to honor the company’s achievement and spoke alongside Billboard co-chief content officer Jason Lipshutz and managing director of charts and data operations Gary Trust commemorating the evening.

REPUBLIC Collective — which includes Republic Records, Island Records, Def Jam, Mercury Records, Imperial, MCA and the newly-relaunched Universal Records — has now tied for the longest consecutive sweep on Top Labels, Billboard 200 Labels and Billboard Hot 100 Labels (dating to the combined recaps’ 1982 start). The only other such five-year stranglehold atop the tallies: Columbia Records in 1983-87, then powered by such stars as Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Wham! REPUBLIC Collective has led the Top Labels recap in nine of the last 11 years and the Hot 100 Labels roundup in 12 of the last 14 years.

More than half of the top 10 entries on the 2025 year-end Billboard 200 Albums ranking (and 13 of the top 20) are from REPUBLIC Collective labels, led by Taylor Swift at No. 1 with The Life of a Showgirl (released on Republic Records). On the year-end Hot 100 Songs roundup, REPUBLIC Collective boasts eight of the top 20 titles, thanks to hits by Post Malone, Chappell Roan, Morgan Wallen, Sabrina Carpenter and The Weeknd.

Check out photos from the event.