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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese record company, founded in 1931
1931 in music

Events*Roy Rogers' musical career begins*Mary Garden retires from the Chicago Opera*Alberto Rabagliati's singing career begins...
 as a division of Japanese publisher Kodansha
Kodansha

is the largest Japanese publisher, headquartered in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon , Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzo, Weekly Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten....
. It became and began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s, but remains part of the publisher's Otowa Group. The label has had huge success with Two-Mix
Two-Mix

TWO-MIX is a J-pop formed in 1995. The members are Minami Takayama and Shiina Nagano .They met in the early 1990s. Takayama, already well-established as a voice actress, was in the indie band RE-X and met Nagano through a friend....
, Miho Nakayama
Miho Nakayama

Nakayama Miho is an actor, Model , and a former J-pop Japanese idol.She was born in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan, the older sister of another J-pop singer, Shinobu Nakayama....
, The Peanuts
The Peanuts

is a Japanese vocal group consisting of twin sisters Emi Ito and Yumi Ito . They were born in Tokoname, Aichi, Aichi on April 1, 1941; soon after their birth, the family moved to Nagoya....
, Megumi Hayashibara
Megumi Hayashibara

is a Japanese people seiyu, singer, radio personality and lyricist from Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Aksent. Her nicknames include "Megu-san", "Megu-nee", "Bara-san", Kakka" and "Daijin"....
, Masami Okui
Masami Okui

, born March 13 1968) is a J-Rock/J-Pop singer who was born in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer....
, Yuki Uchida
Yuki Uchida

is a japanese actress, model and singer, and a popular 90's japanese idol.She practiced fencing in high school, and ranked 3rd in a tournament in Tokyo in 1991....
, Nana Mizuki
Nana Mizuki

, born , born January 21, 1980) is a singer and voice actress in Japan. Born in Niihama, Ehime, Japan, she initially aimed to become an enka singer but eventually became a popular seiyu singer....
, Yuko Ogura
Yuko Ogura

is a Japanese idol and model who typically aims for the cute, innocent schoolgirl look. In Japan, she is mostly called by her nickname .Ogura regularly, if not entirely seriously, claims to be one "Princess Apple-Momoka" of the apple-shaped planet Korin ....
, and Berryz Koubou
Berryz Koubou

is an all-girl J-pop group within Hello! Project. The original eight members are originally from Hello! Project Kids and often were back-up dancers for W 's music videos....
.






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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese record company, founded in 1931
1931 in music

Events*Roy Rogers' musical career begins*Mary Garden retires from the Chicago Opera*Alberto Rabagliati's singing career begins...
 as a division of Japanese publisher Kodansha
Kodansha

is the largest Japanese publisher, headquartered in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon , Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzo, Weekly Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten....
. It became and began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s, but remains part of the publisher's Otowa Group. The label has had huge success with Two-Mix
Two-Mix

TWO-MIX is a J-pop formed in 1995. The members are Minami Takayama and Shiina Nagano .They met in the early 1990s. Takayama, already well-established as a voice actress, was in the indie band RE-X and met Nagano through a friend....
, Miho Nakayama
Miho Nakayama

Nakayama Miho is an actor, Model , and a former J-pop Japanese idol.She was born in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan, the older sister of another J-pop singer, Shinobu Nakayama....
, The Peanuts
The Peanuts

is a Japanese vocal group consisting of twin sisters Emi Ito and Yumi Ito . They were born in Tokoname, Aichi, Aichi on April 1, 1941; soon after their birth, the family moved to Nagoya....
, Megumi Hayashibara
Megumi Hayashibara

is a Japanese people seiyu, singer, radio personality and lyricist from Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Aksent. Her nicknames include "Megu-san", "Megu-nee", "Bara-san", Kakka" and "Daijin"....
, Masami Okui
Masami Okui

, born March 13 1968) is a J-Rock/J-Pop singer who was born in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer....
, Yuki Uchida
Yuki Uchida

is a japanese actress, model and singer, and a popular 90's japanese idol.She practiced fencing in high school, and ranked 3rd in a tournament in Tokyo in 1991....
, Nana Mizuki
Nana Mizuki

, born , born January 21, 1980) is a singer and voice actress in Japan. Born in Niihama, Ehime, Japan, she initially aimed to become an enka singer but eventually became a popular seiyu singer....
, Yuko Ogura
Yuko Ogura

is a Japanese idol and model who typically aims for the cute, innocent schoolgirl look. In Japan, she is mostly called by her nickname .Ogura regularly, if not entirely seriously, claims to be one "Princess Apple-Momoka" of the apple-shaped planet Korin ....
, and Berryz Koubou
Berryz Koubou

is an all-girl J-pop group within Hello! Project. The original eight members are originally from Hello! Project Kids and often were back-up dancers for W 's music videos....
. Now one of Japan's largest record companies not to be owned by a multinational
Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation or transnational corporation is a corporation or enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country....
 entity, it is headquartered in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
.

Its Starchild label, managed by animation producer Toshimichi Otsuki, specialises in animation music and film.

King Records also distributes the Up-Front Works-owned and operated label Piccolo Town
Piccolo Town

Piccolo Town is a Japanese record label owned by Up-Front Works, a Japanese entertainment management company. The label is handled by King Records....
.

King Records has also released video games for the PC-88, Famicom
Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan , the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Singapore, it was released as the ....
, and MSX2
MSX2

MSX2 may refer to:* Msh homeobox 2, a human gene* The second generation of the MSX home computers...
 computers.

During the 1990s, it released albums produced by Konami Music Entertainment
Konami

is a leading video game developer and video game publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, Japanese arcade cabinetss and video games....
.

From September 1987 to September 2008, it distributed music through BMG Japan
BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
. In October 2008, distribution switched to Sony Music Japan
Sony Music Entertainment Japan

is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Corporation and independent from Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry....
.

Artists of King Records

Roster per May 2, 2008:
  • Aice5
    Aice5

    is an all-female Japanese J-pop group that comprises five seiyu: Yui Horie, Chiaki Takahashi , Akemi Kanda, Masumi Asano and Madoka Kimura. Yui Horie founded the group on October 29 2005....
  • AKB48
    AKB48

    AKB48 is an all-female Japanese theater/idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. AKB48 currently consists of 48 members divided into three teams: Team A, Team K and Team B....
  • Aki Yamamoto
  • angela
    Angela (band)

    angela is a J-pop band. The main members are atsuko and KATSU....
     (currently under Starchild Records, a subdivision of King Records)
  • Alice Nine
  • Anri Kumaki
    Anri Kumaki

    is a J-Pop female singer-songwriter....
  • Asia
    Asia (band)

    Asia is a Rock music group formed in 1981. The band was labelled a supergroup and included former members of veteran progressive rock bands Yes , King Crimson, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Uriah Heep , UK , Roxy Music, Wishbone Ash and The Buggles....
     (Japan only)
  • Berryz Koubou
    Berryz Koubou

    is an all-girl J-pop group within Hello! Project. The original eight members are originally from Hello! Project Kids and often were back-up dancers for W 's music videos....
     (under Piccolo Town
    Piccolo Town

    Piccolo Town is a Japanese record label owned by Up-Front Works, a Japanese entertainment management company. The label is handled by King Records....
    )
  • Chihiro Yonekura
    Chihiro Yonekura

    is a Japanese singer from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture....
  • Divinefire
    Divinefire

    Divinefire is a Christian metal Symphonic metal Power metal group founded in the spring of 2004 by Finnish guitarist Jani Stefanovic, and Swedish singer Christian Liljegren....
     (The record company's first and only Christian band to date)
  • Dragonland
    Dragonland

    Dragonland is a Symphonic metal musical group from Sweden. The group is most notable for basing their two first albums upon the self-produced The Dragonland Chronicles fantasy saga and for the original symphony/electronic music parts by Elias Holmlid....
  • faith
  • Freeway High High
  • Gazette
    Gazette (band)

    is a Japanese based alternative metal band. The band formed in early 2002 and is currently signed to Free-Will, King Records and CLJ Records....
  • Junko Minagawa
    Junko Minagawa

    is a seiyu affiliated with Haikyo. She is well-known for voicing young boys, although she has done "feminine" lady roles, as well as flirtatious women....
  • Kagrra
  • Kana Uemura
  • Kra
  • Maki Goto
    Maki Goto

    is a J-pop singer currently signed to the sublabel Rhythm Zone under the Avex Trax label. Before joining Avex, she was a soloist of Hello! Project and member of Morning Musume....
     (under Piccolo Town
    Piccolo Town

    Piccolo Town is a Japanese record label owned by Up-Front Works, a Japanese entertainment management company. The label is handled by King Records....
    )
  • Manhattan Jazz Quintet
    Manhattan Jazz Quintet

    The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz musical ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on Drum kit, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on double bass....
  • Megumi Hayashibara
    Megumi Hayashibara

    is a Japanese people seiyu, singer, radio personality and lyricist from Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Aksent. Her nicknames include "Megu-san", "Megu-nee", "Bara-san", Kakka" and "Daijin"....
  • Moonlight Agony
    Moonlight Agony

    Moonlight Agony is a Sweden Power metal#prog-power metal band which formed in 1999 in Kungsbacka, Sweden. Before they settled on the name Moonlight Agony they were named Thorin and Moonlight Sonata....
  • Nana Mizuki
    Nana Mizuki

    , born , born January 21, 1980) is a singer and voice actress in Japan. Born in Niihama, Ehime, Japan, she initially aimed to become an enka singer but eventually became a popular seiyu singer....
  • Onmyouza
    Onmyo-Za

    Onmyo-Za are a Japanese Heavy metal music band who released their first commercial album in 1999. They play quite orthodox heavy metal music comparable to Iron Maiden or Judas Priest, mixed with elements from Japanese folk and pop music....
  • Rain
    Rain (singer)

    Rain is a Korean Pop music singer, dancer, model, and actor....
  • Roma Tanaka
  • SHOWTA.
  • Sound Horizon
    Sound Horizon

    Sound Horizon, abbreviated by fans as Sanhora, is a Japanese musical group with composer Revo as the leader. They call themselves the 'fantasy band'....
  • Suara
    Suara

    Suara is a female Japanese people singer born on August 3 who is from Osaka, Japan. She works under the label of FIX Records, distributed by King Records....
     (currently under FIX Records, but distributed by King Records)
  • The Pillows
    The pillows

    The Pillows are a Japanese alternative rock band, best known internationally for the Film soundtrack of the anime series FLCL. During its long-running career, the group has released more than a dozen original studio albums, along with several Extended plays, singles and compilations....
  • Yui Horie
    Yui Horie

    is a popular Japanese people singer and Seiyu. Horie's real name is , and she is sometimes affectionately nicknamed by her Japanese language fans. She is not to be confused with Yui , another J-Pop singer....
     (currently under Starchild Records, a subdivision of King Records)
  • Yukari Tamura
    Yukari Tamura

    , born on February 27, 1976 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, is a popular Japanese singer and voice actress who works for I'm Enterprise. She is known affectionately by her fans as ....
     (was under Konami Digital Entertainment, before moving to King Records beginning 2007)
  • v-u-den
    V-u-den

    is a J-pop group within Hello! Project. The group was formed in August 2004 and consists of members Rika Ishikawa, Erika Miyoshi, and Yui Okada, with Ishikawa being the leader....
     (under Piccolo Town
    Piccolo Town

    Piccolo Town is a Japanese record label owned by Up-Front Works, a Japanese entertainment management company. The label is handled by King Records....
    )


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...


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