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62 relations: AKB48, Akina Nakamori, Akira Terao, Arashi, Ayumi Hamasaki, B'z, BTS, Bunkobon, Cassette tape, Chage and Aska, Chief executive officer, Compact disc, Corporate group, DHC Corporation, Exile (Japanese band), Full-time job, Glay, Hikaru Genji (band), Hikaru Utada, Holding company, Japan, Johnny & Associates, King & Prince, Koda Kumi, Kyodo News, LaserDisc, Lawson (store), List of best-selling albums in Japan, List of best-selling singles in Japan, List of Oricon number-one albums, List of Oricon number-one singles, LP record, Megmilk Snow Brand, Minato, Tokyo, MiniDisc, Music industry, Namie Amuro, NEWS (band), Non-governmental organization, Off Course, Orange Range, Oricon Albums Chart, Oricon Karaoke Chart, Oricon Singles Chart, Pink Lady (duo), Record chart, Reporters Without Borders, Roppongi, Seiko Matsuda, Southern All Stars, ... Expand index (12 more) »
- Japanese companies established in 1967
- Japanese companies established in 1999
- Japanese record charts
- Music companies of Japan
AKB48
AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-Eight) is a Japanese idol musical girl group named after the Akihabara area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located.
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Akina Nakamori
is a Japanese singer and actress.
Akira Terao
is a Japanese musician, singer and actor.
Arashi
is a Japanese boy band consisting of five members formed under the Johnny & Associates talent agency.
Ayumi Hamasaki
is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, spokesperson, and entrepreneur.
B'z
is a Japanese rock duo consisting of guitarist, composer and producer Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto and vocalist and lyricist Koshi Inaba,佐伯明『B'z ウルトラクロニクル』ソニー・マガジンズ、2003年。新型光「 」 R25、2005年12月15日。（参照：2007年5月1日。） known for their energetic hard rock tracks and pop rock ballads.
See Oricon and B'z
BTS
BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a South Korean boy band formed in 2010.
See Oricon and BTS
Bunkobon
In Japan, are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and space-saving.
Cassette tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
Chage and Aska
were a Japanese popular music duo composed of male singer-songwriters from Fukuoka Prefecture: and.
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
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Compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.
Corporate group
A corporate group, company group or business group, also formally known as a group of companies, is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control.
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DHC Corporation
, initials of is a Japanese manufacturer dealing in cosmetics and health food supplements headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Exile (Japanese band)
Exile (stylized in all caps as EXILE) is a 17-member Japanese boy band.
See Oricon and Exile (Japanese band)
Full-time job
A full-time job is employment in which workers work a minimum number of hours defined as such by their employer.
Glay
Glay (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese rock band formed in Hakodate in 1988.
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Hikaru Genji (band)
was a Japanese pop music idol group named after the character Hikaru Genji of The Tale of Genji.
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Hikaru Utada
, also known by the mononym Utada, is an American and Japanese singer, songwriter and producer.
Holding company
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Johnny & Associates
was a Japanese talent agency formed by Johnny Kitagawa in 1962, which managed groups of male idols known as The company had a significant impact on pop culture with male idols and boy bands in Japan since the 1980s.
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King & Prince
King & Prince is a two-member Japanese idol group under Starto Entertainment (formerly known as Johnny & Associates) that debuted in 2018.
Koda Kumi
, known professionally as, is a Japanese singer from Kyoto, known for her urban and R&B songs.
Kyodo News
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo.
LaserDisc
The LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known simply as "DiscoVision") in the United States in 1978.
Lawson (store)
is a convenience store franchise chain in Japan.
List of best-selling albums in Japan
Japan is the second-largest music market in the world and the following lists cover the top-selling albums in the country of Japan, based on information provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan and Oricon Inc.
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List of best-selling singles in Japan
In 2007, Japan had the second largest music market in the world. Oricon and List of best-selling singles in Japan are Japanese record charts.
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List of Oricon number-one albums
This is a list of albums that have peaked at number-one on the Oricon Albums Chart, the preeminent singles chart in Japan.
See Oricon and List of Oricon number-one albums
List of Oricon number-one singles
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number-one on the Oricon Singles Chart, the preeminent singles chart in Japan, which was created in 1967, and monitors the number of physical single purchases of the most popular singles.
See Oricon and List of Oricon number-one singles
LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.
Megmilk Snow Brand
, formerly is one of the largest dairy companies in Japan.
See Oricon and Megmilk Snow Brand
Minato, Tokyo
is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan.
MiniDisc
MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio.
Music industry
The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.
Namie Amuro
Namie Amuro (Amuro Namie; born September 20, 1977) is a retired Japanese singer.
NEWS (band)
NEWS (acronym for "North East West South") is a Japanese boy band consisting of Keiichiro Koyama, Takahisa Masuda and Shigeaki Kato.
Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
See Oricon and Non-governmental organization
Off Course
Off Course was a Japanese folk rock band formed by Kazumasa Oda and Yasuhiro Suzuki.
Orange Range
are a 5-member Japanese rock band, based in Okinawa, Japan.
Oricon Albums Chart
The Oricon Albums Chart is the Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Oricon and Oricon Albums Chart are Japanese record charts.
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Oricon Karaoke Chart
Oricon Karaoke Chart is issued weekly and yearly by Oricon. Oricon and Oricon Karaoke Chart are Japanese record charts.
See Oricon and Oricon Karaoke Chart
Oricon Singles Chart
The Oricon Singles Chart is the Japanese music industry-standard singles popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Oricon and Oricon Singles Chart are Japanese record charts.
See Oricon and Oricon Singles Chart
Pink Lady (duo)
are a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mie (Mitsuyo Nemoto, born March 9, 1958) and Keiko Masuda (formerly Kei, born September 2, 1957).
See Oricon and Pink Lady (duo)
Record chart
A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period.
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RWB; Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on safeguarding the right to freedom of information.
See Oricon and Reporters Without Borders
Roppongi
Roppongi (六本木,, 'six trees') is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the affluent Roppongi Hills development area and popular night club scene.
Seiko Matsuda
, known professionally as, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, known for being one of the most popular Japanese idols of the 1980s.
Southern All Stars
, also known by the abbreviations and SAS, are a Japanese rock band that first formed in 1974.
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Statistics
Statistics (from German: Statistik, "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.
Strategic lawsuit against public participation
Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as SLAPP suits or intimidation lawsuits), or strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.
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Television advertisement
A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.
See Oricon and Television advertisement
TRF (group)
TRF (an abbreviation of Tetsuya Komuro Rave Factory) is a Japanese pop band.
Video High Density
Video High Density (VHD) was an analog video disc format storing up to 60 minutes per side, predominantly marketed by JVC in Japan.
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Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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Yōsui Inoue
is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music.
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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Yumi Matsutoya
, nicknamed, is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and pianist.
Zard
(stylized as ZARD) were a Japanese pop rock group, originally with five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as its only constant member.
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7-Eleven
7-Eleven, Inc. is an American convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas.
8-track cartridge
The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music.
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See also
Japanese companies established in 1967
- Alpine Electronics
- Fujisankei Communications Group
- Japan Transocean Air
- Knack Productions
- Oricon
- Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
- Tecmo
Japanese companies established in 1999
- Artoon
- Cing
- DMM.com
- DeNA
- Ganbarion
- Hamster Corporation
- Ibex Airlines
- Japan Bank for International Cooperation
- Keisei Transit Bus
- Kintetsu Bus
- Lantis (company)
- Micron Memory Japan
- Mixi
- Monex Group
- Monolith Soft
- NTT Communications
- Oricon
- Palm Studio
- Qute Corporation
- SB Creative
- SBI Group
- SUMCO
- Space Shower Music
- Square Enix Image Studio Division
- TNK (company)
- Tri-Crescendo
- Vanpool (company)
- Voltage (company)
Japanese record charts
- Billboard Japan Hot 100
- Billboard Japan Hot Albums
- List of artists who reached number one on the Japan Hot 100
- List of best-selling singles in Japan
- Oricon
- Oricon Albums Chart
- Oricon Karaoke Chart
- Oricon Singles Chart
- RIAJ Digital Track Chart
Music companies of Japan
References
Also known as Japan Yearly Top Singles, Japanese Digital Albums, ORICON NEWS, Oricon Albums Milestones, Oricon Chart, Oricon Charts, Oricon Combined Albums Chart, Oricon Combined Singles Chart, Oricon Digital Albums Chart, Oricon Digital Singles Chart, Oricon Entertainment, Oricon Inc, Oricon Inc., Oricon ME inc., Oricon Streaming Chart, Oricon Style, Oricon Top Singles, Original Confidence, Original Confidence Inc., Yearly Top Albums, Yearly Top Singles, .