King Records (Japan)
King Record Co., Ltd. (キングレコード株式会社, Kingu Rekōdo Kabushiki gaisha),[1] commonly known as King Records, is a Japanese record company founded in January 1931 as a division of the Japanese publisher Kodansha. It initially began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s. It later became part of the Otowa Group. Today, King Records is one of Japan's largest record companies which is not owned by a multinational entity. The label's headquarters are in Bunkyo, Tokyo.
King Record Co., Ltd.
January 1931 (January 1931)
Active
Various
The label's name is actually based from the now-defunct Kingu magazine published by Kodansha from 1924 to 1957.
Sub-labels[edit]
Its Starchild label, was managed by animation producer Toshimichi Ōtsuki, specialised in anime music and film. King Records also distributes the Up-Front Works–owned and –operated labels Piccolo Town and Rice Music, and also released video games for the PC-88, Famicom, Game Boy Advance, and MSX2 platforms. On February 1, 2016, King Records restructured Starchild and renamed it King Amusement Creative.[2]
Paddle Wheel Records is a division of King Record Co.[3]
You! Be Cool was the official sub-label for AKB48.
Venus-B is the company's official urban music imprint.
Evil Line Records is the label's new division, established in April 2014, and comprises artists like Momoiro Clover Z and Meg, among others.[4][5][6]
Nexus is the label's division specialized for metal/underground music from Japan also overseas. Notable artists in it label are Earthshaker, etc.
Seven Seas is the label's division focusing on world music from overseas artists in many genres.
Stomu Yamashta
Inoran
Kana Uemura
Diedrich Hartmann
Nogod
Takeshi Terauchi
Miho Nakayama
Hiroko Moriguchi
Morning Musume
Tomomi Itano
Atsuko Maeda
Miss Monochrome
(Evil Line)
Aice5
(Evil Line)
Earphones
(Evil Line)
Hypnosis Mic
Charisma House (Evil Line)
Otsuki Miyako
(Evil Line, formerly Starchild)
Momoiro Clover Z
(Evil Line)
Meg
Lynch.
Theatre Brook
Haruka Fukuhara
(Bellwood)
Sawa
Park Junyoung
Hiroki Nanami
(as dr jan guru) "Planet Japan"
Jan Linton
(Evil Line)
Rock A Japonica
Senri Kawaguchi
Yuki Uchida
(King Amusement Creative)
Nana Mizuki
(King Amusement Creative)
Mamoru Miyano
(King Amusement Creative)
Suneohair
(King Amusement Creative)
Ryoko Shiraishi
(King Amusement Creative)
angela
(King Amusement Creative)
Ai Nonaka
(King Amusement Creative)
Yoko Takahashi
(King Amusement Creative)
Soichiro Hoshi
(King Amusement Creative)
Sumire Uesaka
(King Amusement Creative)
Inori Minase
(King Amusement Creative)
Shouta Aoi
(King Amusement Creative)
Satomi Sato
(King Amusement Creative)
Yuuma Uchida
(King Amusement Creative)
Yui Horie
(King Amusement Creative)
Niji no Conquistador
B2takes! (King Amusement Creative)
(King Amusement Creative)
Miho Okasaki
AMATSUKI
(King Amusement Creative)
AIMI
(2011-2016; to TMS Music)
Eri Kitamura
(2018-2021)
GFriend
Kagrra,
Masumi Asano
(to self-owned amairo records)
Matenrou Opera
(1991-2019; freelance)
Megumi Hayashibara
Michiyo Azusa
(2004)
Minori Chihara
(2023 -)
Sung Si-kyung
YuiKaori
to 5pb. Records
Yui Sakakibara
Yukari Tamura
Yuko Ogura
the former label under King Records
Starchild
(in Japanese)
King Records Japan
(in English)
King Records Japan
King Records Japan corporate websites
King Records Japan NEWS websites
King Records Japan PLAYLIST websites
King Records Japan Twitter
King Records Japan Instagram
King Records Japan TikTok
(in Japanese)
King Amusement Creative
(in Japanese)
EVIL LINE RECORDS
(in Japanese)