Merge Records

Merge Records

100 releases 5 sub-labels 1989–2025

About

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records reaching the top of the Billboard music charts.

Top Merge Records Releases

The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
2010
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel
1998
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
2007
Funeral
Arcade Fire
2004
Neutral Milk Hotel Box Set
Neutral Milk Hotel Box Set
Neutral Milk Hotel
2011
On Avery Island
Neutral Milk Hotel
1996
69 Love Songs
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
1999
Swim
Swim
Caribou
2010
Our Love
Our Love
Caribou
2014
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
2010
Suddenly
Suddenly
Caribou
2020
Transference
Transference
Spoon
2010
Kaputt
Destroyer
2011
Reflektor
Arcade Fire
2013
All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats
2002
Civilian
Civilian
Wye Oak
2011
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
1988
All Eternals Deck
The Mountain Goats
2011
Transcendental Youth
The Mountain Goats
2012
Saint Cloud
Waxahatchee
2020
Andorra
Andorra
Caribou
2007
Volume One
Volume One
She & Him
2008
Copper Blue
Copper Blue
Sugar
1992
Intervention
Arcade Fire
2007
Our Ill Wills
Shout Out Louds
2007
Beat the Champ
The Mountain Goats
2015
Volume Two
Volume Two
She & Him
2010
No Cars Go
Arcade Fire
2007
We Used to Wait
Arcade Fire
2010
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
2003
Icky Mettle
Icky Mettle
Archers of Loaf
1993
2009 Merge Records Sampler
Various Artists
2009
Holiday
The Magnetic Fields
1994
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst
2008
Never Come Back
Never Come Back
Caribou
2020
69 Love Songs, Volume 1
The Magnetic Fields
1999
Get Lost
The Magnetic Fields
1995
Wild Flag
Wild Flag
Wild Flag
2011
Goths
The Mountain Goats
2017
Out in the Storm
Waxahatchee
2017
Shriek
Shriek
Wye Oak
2014
Ivy Tripp
Waxahatchee
2015
Honey
Honey
Caribou
2024
In League With Dragons
The Mountain Goats
2019
You and I
You and I
Caribou
2019
I Hate Jazz
I Hate Jazz
Mike Krol
2011
Suburban Light
The Clientele
2000
Post-War
Post-War
M. Ward
2006
The Charm of the Highway Strip
The Magnetic Fields
1994
Dinosaur
Dinosaur
1985
Biggest Bluest Hi‐Fi
Camera Obscura
2001
Bleed Out
The Mountain Goats
2022
Have We Met
Destroyer
2020
Volume 3
Volume 3
She & Him
2013
Hold Time
Hold Time
M. Ward
2009
Merge Records: Sampler 2007
Various Artists
2007
Love at the Bottom of the Sea
The Magnetic Fields
2012
Dark in Here
The Mountain Goats
2021
Getting Into Knives
The Mountain Goats
2020
Home
Home
Caribou
2019
Is a Woman
Lambchop
2002
Jenny From Thebes
The Mountain Goats
2023
Madonna
Madonna
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
1999
Mr. M
Mr. M
Lambchop
2012
On the Mouth
On the Mouth
Superchunk
1992
A Catholic Education
Teenage Fanclub
1990
If Looks Could Kill
Camera Obscura
2007
The Coroner's Gambit
The Mountain Goats
2000
The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Titus Andronicus
2015
Spring Sampler 2011
Various Artists
2011
Nixon
Lambchop
2000

Merge Records Artist Roster

Superchunk
Superchunk
76 releases
Group
Various Artists
Various Artists
46 releases
Other
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
41 releases
Group
L
Lambchop
32 releases
Group
Wye Oak
Wye Oak
30 releases
Group
D
Destroyer
27 releases
Group
The Clientele
The Clientele
22 releases
Group
Spoon
Spoon
20 releases
Group
Caribou
Caribou
20 releases
Person
Fruit Bats
Fruit Bats
18 releases
Group
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire
17 releases
Group
P
Portastatic
16 releases
Group
HC
Hollie Cook
15 releases
Person
The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields
14 releases
Group
M. Ward
M. Ward
13 releases
Person
Will Butler
Will Butler
13 releases
Person
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus
12 releases
Group
Dawn Richard
Dawn Richard
12 releases
Person