For a small label those are big numbers.
"For a small label, that's exceptionally good," said David Starobin, Bridge's president.
Eddy Howard's version eventually topped the US charts in 1952 while the Four Aces peaked at No 4 – a notable achievement for a small label.
They recorded for a small label that eventually turned into Wind Up Records, which turned into one of the largest indie labels, home of the stadium rockers Creed.
After being drafted into the Army, which stationed him in Stuttgart, Germany, Mr. Charen returned to the music business in 1970, working for a small label, Scepter Records.
But Boucher still records for a small label, 4AD, which gives her freedom from just about any imperative except the financial one she can't afford not to think practically about her career.
Mr. Fuqua, a native of Louisville, Ky., began his career with the doo-wop group the Moonglows, which initially recorded for a small label run by the disc jockey Alan Freed and later signed with Chess Records.
In a wide-ranging chat in a back room at Amoeba, Mr. Shipley and Rob Sevier, another of the Numero partners, spoke candidly about what the Grammys mean (and don't mean) for a small label nominated in one of the dozens of non-televised categories, and what's next for Numero.
For a small label like Arbutus, the effects can be crippling.
For a larger label (r2), the same movement of the N-terminus leads to an overall similar motion but with a larger displacement of the center of mass (d2) than for a small label (d1).
