• Source: King Records (Japan)

King Record Co., Ltd. (キングレコード株式会社, Kingu Rekōdo Kabushiki gaisha), 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.
The label's name is actually based from the now-defunct Kingu magazine published by Kodansha from 1924 to 1957.




Sub-labels


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.
Paddle Wheel Records is a division of King Record Co.
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.
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.




Notable artists



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Stomu Yamashta
Inoran
Kana Uemura
Diedrich Hartmann
Nogod
Takeshi Terauchi
Miho Nakayama
Hiroko Moriguchi
Morning Musume
Tomomi Itano
Atsuko Maeda
Yuki Kashiwagi (AKB48)
Momoland
Miss Monochrome
Aice5 (Evil Line)
Earphones (Evil Line)
Hypnosis Mic (Evil Line)
Charisma House (Evil Line)
Otsuki Miyako
Momoiro Clover Z (Evil Line, formerly Starchild)
Meg (Evil Line)
Lynch.
Theatre Brook
Haruka Fukuhara
Sawa (Bellwood)
Park Junyoung
Hiroki Nanami
Jan Linton (as dr jan guru) "Planet Japan"
Rock A Japonica (Evil Line)
Senri Kawaguchi
Block B
Yuki Uchida
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 (King Amusement Creative)
B2takes! (King Amusement Creative)
Miho Okasaki (King Amusement Creative)
AMATSUKI
AIMI (King Amusement Creative)
Mardelas (Nexus)
Light Bringer (Nexus)




Former artists


Alice Nine (2005-2010; to Tokuma Japan Communications)
AKB48 (You, Be Cool!) (2008-2023; to Universal Music Japan)
CHAGE and ASKA (1985-1999; to Toshiba EMI)
Eri Kitamura (2011-2016; to TMS Music)
GFriend (2018-2021)
Kagrra,
Masumi Asano
Matenrou Opera (to self-owned amairo records)
Mikako Komatsu (2012-2016; to Toy's Factory)
Megumi Hayashibara (1991-2019; freelance)
Masami Okui (1993-2004; to Geneon until 2011 when she signed with Lantis)
Michiyo Azusa
Minori Chihara (2004)
Sung Si-kyung (2023 -)
Neko Jump (2006-2011; Former overseas partner of Kamikaze)
Sound Horizon to Pony Canyon
the pillows (1994-2006; to avex trax)
The Gazette (2005-2010; to Sony Music Japan)
TWO-MIX (1995-1998; to Warner Music Japan)
YuiKaori
Yui Sakakibara to 5pb. Records
Yui Ogura (2012-2022; King Amusement Creative; to Nippon Columbia)
Yukari Tamura
Yuko Ogura




See also


Starchild, the former label under King Records




References






External links


King Records Japan (in Japanese)
King Records Japan (in English)
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
King Amusement Creative (in Japanese)
EVIL LINE RECORDS (in Japanese)
HEROIC LINE (in Japanese)
King Records's channel on YouTube

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