King Records (Japan)

King Record Co., Ltd. (King Records)
Parent company	Parent: Kodansha, Ltd. 1931 – present Shareholders: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. 1985 – present Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc. 2005 – present
Founded	1931
Status	Active
Genre	Pop, Rock, Kayōkyoku, Enka, Anime music, Soundtracks
Country of origin	Japan
Location	Bunkyo, Tokyo
Official website	www.kingrecords.co.jp

King Records head office

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Japanese King Record's "Tennessee Waltz" (1952) sung by Chiemi Eri

King Record Co., Ltd. (キングレコード株式会社, Kingu Rekōdo Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese record company, founded in 1931 as a division of Japanese publisher Kodansha. It became and began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s, but remains part of the publisher's Otowa Group. Now one of Japan's largest record companies not to be owned by a multinational entity, it is headquartered in Tokyo.

Sub-labels

Its Starchild label, managed by animation producer Toshimichi Ōtsuki, specialises 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, and MSX2 computers.

You! Be Cool is 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 on April 2014, and comprises artists like Momoiro Clover Z and Meg, among others.

Notable artists

• FUKI
• Sano Hana
• Suzuki Reona
• Midorikawa Tomoko
• Matenrou Opera
• Inoran
• Kana Uemura
• Nogod
• Takeshi Terauchi
• Miho Nakayama
• Hiroko Moriguchi
• AKB48 (You, Be Cool!)
  • Tomomi Itano
  • Atsuko Maeda
• Myland
• Nana Mizuki
• Yukari Tamura
• Mamoru Miyano
• YuiKaori
• Yui Horie (Starchild)
• Momoiro Clover Z (Evil Line, formerly Starchild)
• Meg (Starchild)
• Lynch.
• Theatre Brook
• Ryoko Shiraishi (Starchild)
• Megumi Hayashibara (Starchild)
• angela (Starchild)
• Ai Nonaka (Starchild)
• Eri Kitamura (Starchild)
• Soichiro Hoshi (Starchild)
• Haruka Fukuhara
• Sawa (Bellwood)
• B.A.P
• Park Junyoung
• Jan Linton (as dr jan guru) "Planet Japan"
• David Silverman
• Block B

External links

• King Records Japan (Japanese)
• King Records Japan (English)
• Starchild (Japanese)
• Starchild (English)
• Venus-B
• King Records's channel on YouTube
• Starchild Records at Anime News Network's encyclopedia