Revealed Recordings (or shortened to Revealed, stylized as revealed) is a Dutch record label established by

Hardwell Robbert van de Corput (; born 7 January 1988), known professionally as Hardwell, is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda. He was voted the world's number one DJ by ''DJ Mag'' in 2013 and again in 2014. In 2022, he was ranked at number 43 in ...

in 2010. The label is headquartered in

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, Netherlands.

History

The label was established on 11 April 2010 by

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

producer and DJ

. Revealed mainly focuses on

big room house Big room house or simply big room is a fusion subgenre of house music (notably progressive house and electro house) that gained popularity in the early 2010s. Although the term "big room" started appearing in news articles circa 2007, the curr ...

dance-pop Dance-pop is a Music genre, genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s. It is generally uptempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable but also suitable for contemporary hit ra ...

, and

electro house Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music and a subgenre of house music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 125–135 beats per minute. The term has been used to describe the music of many ''DJ Mag'' Top 100 DJs, including ...

. The label has had some success, including "

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" by Hardwell featuring Amba Shepherd, which peaked on No. 26 of the

Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 () is a weekly music chart compiled by ''Stichting Nederlandse Top 40''. It started as a radio program titled "Veronica Top 40", on the offshore radio, offshore station Radio Veronica in 1965. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" ...

; Hardwell's 2014 single " Dare You" was also successful, entering the UK Singles Chart at No. 18. " Dare You" has also been used on adverts for television programs such as ''

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''.. "Cell" by Julian Calor is frequently used in

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livestream broadcasts. "Radical" by

Dyro Jordy van Egmond (; born 22 April 1992), known professionally as Dyro ( ), is a Dutch DJ and Electronic dance music, EDM producer. Since 2010 he has released original singles and remixes on labels such as Revealed Recordings, Tiësto, Musical F ...

Dannic Daan Romers (; born 10 November 1985), better known by his stage name Dannic (stylized as DɅNNIC), is a Dutch people, Dutch Disc jockey, DJ and Electronic dance music, EDM record producer, producer. He is known for his work in collaborations wi ...

featured in the soundtrack for Just Dance 2017. The festival mix of Kaaze & Maddix's "People Are Strange" was also used in the trailer for the film Hubie Halloween. In 2015, Revealed launched a radio show called ''Revealed Radio'', hosted by a different artist from the label each week, starting with Hardwell. The label has over 200 track releases. In 2016, Revealed released an a cappella pack to celebrate six years of their establishment. In 2018, Revealed announced that there will be a new sublabel of Revealed, titled Gemstone Records. The label will focus on the pop side of electronic music. In 2019, it was announced that Revealed would host a stage at

in 2020 on the UMF Radio stage, celebrating Revealed's 10 year anniversary. In 2020, Revealed celebrated their 10-year anniversary with a 360° livestream event at the De Koepelkerk in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

. The livestream featured DJ performances from Revealed artists; Tim Hox, Dastic, Dannic, Maddix, Mike Williams, Olly James, Sick Individuals, Kaaze, Bassjackers, Dr Phunk, Blasterjaxx, and Tony Junior. In 2024, Revealed reached the milestone of 1,000 releases, with the 1,000th being "Move", a collaboration between Hardwell and Kaaze. In an interview with EDM.com, Hardwell explained the creation of the 1,000th release as, "The moment we nailed that melody, we both felt this track was going to be something special. The timing of the 1,000th release and "Move" being finished felt like the perfect synergy for having Kaaze join me in celebrating this key moment."

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