Victor Entertainment

Victor Entertainment, Incorporated

Type	Subsidiary of Japan Victor Company (JVC)
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	Yokohama, Japan (April 25, 1972)
Headquarters	Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Yuichi Kaito, President Toshiaki Shibutani, Managing Director
Products	Audio, visual and computer software media products
Revenue	6.31 billion Yen (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2005)
Employees	600 (as of March 31, 2005)
Parent	JVC
Website	Victor Entertainment

Victor Entertainment (ビクターエンタテインメント株式会社, Bikutā Entateinmento Kabushiki Kaisha) is a subsidiary of Japan Victor Company (JVC) that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It was formerly known as Victor Music Industries (ビクター音楽産業, Bikutā Ongaku Sangyō). It was affiliated with RCA Victor Records.

History

• April 1972: Victor Music Industries, Inc. (ビクター音楽産業株式会社, Bikutā Ongaku Sangyō Kabushiki Kaisha) spun off as subsidiary of JVC
• February 1984: Sales and marketing department of JVC spun off as Nihon AVC, Inc. (日本エイ・ブイ・シー株式会社, Nihon Ei・Bui・Shī Kabushiki Kaisha)
• January 1988: Striked a deal with BMG Japan after Bertelsmann Music Group purchased RCA Records
• June 1991: Ended deal with BMG Japan after the US subsidiaries for Nihon AVC and Victor Music Industries opened two months earlier
• April 1993: Nihon AVC and Victor Music Industries merge and the name is changed to Victor Entertainment
• March 1999: Moved main office

Labels

Records

• 3 Views
• Aosis Records
• BabeStar
• Cypress Showers
• Globe Roots
• Happy House
• Hihirecords (for babies and kids)
• Invitation
• JVC Entertainment (Production and Artist Managements)
  • Flying Dog (Animation Related Products)
• JVC Jazz
• JVC World Sounds
• Mob Squad (Dragon Ash Private Label)
• Nafin
• Speedstar International
• Speedstar Records
• Taishita (Southern All Stars Private Label, joint venture with Amuse, Inc.)
• Victor
• Victory (defunct; not same as US label)

Distribution

• AI Entertainment (a division of Mnet Media's FNC Music, co-distributed with Warner Music Japan)
• Bad News
• D-topia Entertainment
• Daipro-X
• Marquee, Inc.
• Milan Records
• Revolver Music
• Substance
• Teichiku Entertainment (Subsidiary of Victor Entertainment.)
  • BAIDIS
  • Be-tam-ing
  • Continental
  • Imperial Records
  • Imperial International
  • KIDSDOM (Animation Related Label)
  • MONAD (Haruomi Hosono Private Label)
  • Non-Standard(Haruomi Hosono Produce Label)
  • Overseas Records
  • PROGRAM (Katsumi Tanaka Private Label ~2000)
  • TOHO Records (Master Rights Only)
  • Takumi Note
  • Teichiku Records
  • TMC Music
    • 246 Records
  • Union Records
    • Union Black Records
• WHD Entertainment Inc.

Video

• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• GAGA Communications
• MediaNet Pictures
• SPO Entertainment
• TBS Video

Major artists

Listed alphabetically by group or first name. Names are in Western order (given name, family name).

• Aimi Yuguchi
• Aina Ōgi
• Akino Arai (flying DOG)
• AKINO from bless4 (flying DOG)
• Anthem
• Alesha Dixon
• ALI PROJECT (flying DOG)
• Angra
• The Back Horn
• Blessed By A Broken Heart
• Chiaki Ishikawa (flying DOG)
• Chocolate & Akito
• CN Blue (AI Ent./Victor) - left Victor for Warner
• Cocco
• The Cobra Sisters
• cymbals
• Daigo☆Stardust
• Death from Above 1979 (Japanese distribution rights)
• Dew
• Dragon Ash (Mob Squad/Victor)
• FictionJunction (flying DOG)
  • FictionJunction YUUKA (flying DOG)
• Full of Harmony
• Fūmidō
• Gari
• Going Under Ground
• Guniw Tools
• 80★PAN!
• Impellitteri
• Jero
• Kazuyoshi Saito
• Kigurumi
  • Kei (joined "Kigurumi" on November 7, 2007.)
  • Miki (joined "Kigurumi" on November 7, 2007.)
  • Rena
• Kigurumichiko
  • Rena (Kigurumi)
  • Michiko Shimizu
• Kiko Loureiro
• Kiroro
• Kiyofumi Ōno
• Kokia
• Kyōko Koizumi
• Leah Dizon
• Lisa Komine (flying DOG)
• Love Psychedelico
• Lunkhead
• Maaya Sakamoto (flying DOG)
• Mariko Takahashi
• Masumi
• Matt Bianco
• May'n (flying DOG)

• Megumi Nakajima (flying DOG)
• Merry
• Miho Hatori
• Mika Arisaka
• Miki Matsubara (1987-1989)
• Minmi
• Miz
• The Morning After
• Noriko Sakai
• Oozekitaku
• Paris Match
• PIG
• Plastic Tree (Flying Star, 2012- )
• Quruli
• Remioromen
• Rimi Natsukawa
• ROUND TABLE featuring Nino (flying DOG)
• Sakanaction
• savage genius (flying DOG)
• Sayuri Yoshinaga
• See-Saw (flying DOG)
• Shinichi Mori
• Shunsuke Kiyokiba (former EXILE vocalist that was signed under Avex)
• Shōnen Kamikaze
• SikTh - Japan Only
• Singer Songer
• SMAP
  • Masahiro Nakai
  • Kimura Takuya
  • Goro Inagaki (also goes by &G)
  • Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
  • Shingo Katori
• Source
• Southern All Stars
• Steve Barakatt
• Sweet Vacation
  • Yuko Hara (solo and duet releases with SMAP member Shingo Katori)
  • Keisuke Kuwata/Kuwata Band
  • Hiroshi Matsuda
  • Hideyuki Nozawa
  • Kazuyuki Sekiguchi
• Takeshi Nakatsuka
• Toshihiko Tahara (transferred from Pony Canyon)(Management Only)
• Tokyo Ethmusica
• UA
• Yoko Kanno (flying DOG)
• Yuki Kajiura (flying DOG)
• Yukio Hashi

Distribution managements

• BMG Japan (1988–1991)

External links

• (Japanese) Victor Entertainment
• Victor Entertainment on Twitter
• Victor Entertainment on Facebook
• Victor Music Channel Presented by Victor Entertainment's channel on YouTube