Music services and other potential licensees should be aware that distributed labels who receive RIAA benefits because they are distributed by a major have not necessarily authorized the major to distribute or license all of that distributed label’s content, or in all formats. This list was last updated in January 2017. The names of distributed labels are reported to RIAA periodically in connection with the collection of industry data. record companies that pay dues directly to RIAA) as well as record companies that have content distributed (“distributed labels”) by major recorded music companies (“majors”) in the U.S. The following is a list of RIAA members (U.S.