is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate led by founder Max Matsuura and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1988, the company manages

J-pop J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1 ...

talents like Ayumi Hamasaki and internet sensation

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. It has also shifted into other business domains like anime, video games and live music events, partnering with

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and hosting the annual A-nation. The company is a member of the

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is a Japanese bank holding and financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG holds assets of around US$3.1 trillion as of 2016 and is one of the "Three Great Houses" of the Mitsubishi Group alongside Mitsubishi Corpo ...

(MUFG) ''

keiretsu A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. In the legal sense, it is a type of informal business group that are loosely organized alliances within the social world of Japan's business community. The ''k ...

''.

Name

Avex is an

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of the English words Audio Visual Expert. Since its foundation, its corporate name was Avex D.D., Incorporated, and ten years later it was changed to Avex, Incorporated. The current name, Avex Group Holdings, Incorporated, was adopted in 2004 as part of reconstruction process after Tom Yoda's resignation. Avex Group Holdings, Incorporated was used for the main subsidiaries, while the old name (Avex, Incorporated) was for entertainment components of the Group. In 2005, Avex, Incorporated became Avex Entertainment, Incorporated, and stayed on as part of the Group.

History

1988–1999: The early years

Avex was registered June 1, 1973, as , although it did not become established until 1988. They began as a CD wholesaler based in

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. :ja:エイベックス・グループ Avex Group's article on the Japanese Wikipedia. In September 1990, they opened a recording studio and created Avex Trax as a music label. In the same year, they created "Musique Folio Inc.", a music publishing company, which became "Prime Direction Inc." In 1993, they transferred to

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and created a U.S. branch, called "AV Experience America Inc." The year also marked the first of Avex's yearly events. It was held in

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under the name "avex rave '93" and attracted 50,000 attendees. This led to the creation of the Cutting Edge label. In 1994, they formed two UK subsidiaries, "Rhythm Republic Limited" and "Avex U.K. Limited". Later that year, they opened a disco, claimed on their website to be "the world's largest scale disco", named

Velfarre was a disco located in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, Japan. Velfarre was the self-professed "largest disco in Asia" with a capacity of 1,500 people, with three floors above ground and three floors below; owned by Tetsuya Komuro and Avex Trax. ...

. In 1997, they opened a series of concert halls called "

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" with

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. In early 1999, they signed an agreement with

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and Hollywood Records to handle the companies' Japanese CD releases. Later that year "Avex Mode", an animation company, was established. In December, the company was listed on the 1st section of the

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under the

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7860.

2000–2009: Times of unity and divisiveness

In 2001, Avex opened the "avex artists academy" music school. In 2002, they released the " CCCD", a type of copy-protected CD, and opened their building in Aoyama, paid for by Sumitomo Life and worth 205 billion yen. In 2003, they opened a classical music business (named Avex Classics). In January 2004, they began selling Japanese music CDs in South Korea. In December of that same year, President Max Matsuura "spotted" former idol

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performing live at the annual festival of their school,

Nihon University , abbreviated as , is a private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, in 1889. It is one of Japan's leading private universiti ...

. He subsequently signed her to the Avex label. In 2005, Avex acquired distribution rights for Aozora Records' catalogue including all future Hitomi Yaida releases. In early 2008, Avex partnered with Victor JVC to officially create the label

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as a business partnership between the labels and its founder, Terukado Onishi, with the

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handled by Victor while the area promotion handled by Avex. As part of the Avex Group's 20th anniversary celebration, a big project occurred with avex trax's "produced by avex trax" artists; the band Girl Next Door, formed and debuted in September 2008. Avex Group launched its own

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service, BeeTV, May 2009 in partnership with NTT DoCoMo.

2004: Internal feud : Max Matsuura v. Tom Yoda

In August 2004, a feud between Max Matsuura and co-founder Tom Yoda affected the group. It started because of Yoda's ambition to expand Avex into other entertainment-related ventures, especially producing

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s. In addition, he accused Ryuhei Chiba, the company's executive director and president of Avex Inc. (now Avex Planning and Development), of pursuing personal profit from a few big artists. July 30: In a board meeting, Yoda introduced a

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calling on Chiba to resign because of an alleged

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. A source says the disagreement arose because Chiba had signed an artist managed by a member of his family. The board backed Yoda's resolution in a 6-1 vote. However, Matsuura — described by insiders as a close ally of Chiba — introduced a second resolution demanding that Yoda step down due to "a difference of opinion in management principles". Matsuura's motion was defeated 5-2. He and Chiba resigned the next day. August 2: Matsuura and Chiba announced their resignations in a meeting with employees of Avex. Chiba denied any fault, while Matsuura complained that Avex had lost its love of music and said he wanted to start over. They had the support of many staff who also said they would quit. More significantly, the label's top star, Ayumi Hamasaki, said she would leave. As a result, Avex's stocks in the TSE fell by 16 percent that day. August 3: Due to pressure by employees and artists and to save the company from bankruptcy, Yoda resigned and was replaced by Toshio Kobayashi.

2010–present

AGHD is listed at the

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and Börse München of Germany under the ticker symbol AX8. More K-pop artists from other agencies continued to sign with Avex such as

SM Entertainment SM Entertainment Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean multinational entertainment agency. It is one of South Korea's largest entertainment companies where it was established in 1995 by record executive and record producer Lee Soo-man. The company ha ...

TVXQ TVXQ (stylized as TVXQ!), an initialism for Tong Vfang Xien Qi (), is a South Korean male pop duo consisting of U-Know Yunho and Max Changmin. They are known as in Japanese releases, and are sometimes referred to as DBSK, an abbreviation of ...

(2006),

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2NE1 2NE1 (, ) was a South Korean girl group formed by YG Entertainment, which was active between 2009 and 2016. The group was composed of four members: Bom, CL, Dara, and Minzy. Known for breaking typical stereotypes of K-pop, musical experimen ...

(2010), S-plus Entertainment's

SS501 SS501 is a South Korean boy band consisting of five members: Kim Hyun-joong, Heo Young-saeng, Kim Kyu-jong, Park Jung-min and Kim Hyung-jun. They debuted in 2005 with the EP ''Warning'', which included their first number one song, "Never A ...

member Kim Hyung Jun (2011), Pledis Entertainment's After School (2011), NH Media's

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(2011) and Yejeon Media's Shu-I (2011). On July 21, 2011, it was announced that Avex had paired with Korean management label YG Entertainment to form YGEX. In 2012, the group began offering limited releases for sale, DRM-free for the first time within Japan on

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. Max Matsuura and Toshio Kobayashi, the company's top two individual shareholders, launched their own investment companies to anchor their shares in 2012. As a show of modernization, Avex Group moved to Izumi Garden Tower in

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in October 2014. The company was designated to the 36th floor – the former address of DWANGO. On February 15, 2017, Avex Group discontinued all foreign exports of Blu-rays, DVDs, and CDs published under their Avex Pictures label. The company provided no official statement on the decision.

Operations

Subsidiaries

In April 2010, the Avex Group corporation was re-structured to establish Avex Music Publishing Inc. as a consolidated subsidiary, in a corporate spin-off of music publishing division of Avex Group Holdings Inc. Thus the Avex Group became a pure holding company, with a corporate structure as follows:

Japan

* * * * (Formerly ''Musique Folio Inc.'' and ''Prime Direction Inc.'')

Other

* Avex International Holding Corporation * Avex Asia Pte. Ltd. * Avex Taiwan Inc. – Est. July 1998 * Avex USA Inc.

Affiliates

* Memory-Tech Corporation * RecoChoku Co., Ltd. * AWA

Music labels

* Avex Casa (house music and electronica) * Avex Classics (

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be #Relationship to other music traditions, distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical m ...

) * Avex Globe (

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's label) * Avex Ideak * Avex International (international releases) * Avex IO * Avex Trance (trance music) * Avex Trax (first record label of the group (1990)) * Avex Tune (dance music) *B-ME (joint venture with BMSG) * Binyl Records (rock music) ** Dive in! Disc ** Gokukara Records (joint venture with Marty Friedman) ** PopTop * Blowgrow *

Commmons Commmons is a Japanese record label founded by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. Avex Group, Japan's biggest independent record label, is its official parent company. History Commmons was founded in 2006 by Sakamoto with the help of Avex and ...

(joint venture with

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) * Cross-A * Cutting Edge (second record label of the Group (1993.12)) * Dimension Point (

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's label) * Disc du Soleil * Dois Irmaos ( Lisa Ono) * Espionage Records (joint venture with Verbal) * Five-D Plus * Foxtrot (joint venture with Rams Incorporated) * FRAME (joint venture with Level-5; founded by the latter with Up-Front Works) * Hach Entertainment (joint venture with NTT SmartConnect) * Hi-BPM Studio * HPQ (

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) * Idol Street (for idol performers, launched October 2, 2010, by Tatsuo Higuchi) *

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* J-Friends Project * J-More * Justa Music * Locomusic ( Love-chan's label) * Love Life Records ( Hitomi's label) * Mad Pray Records (

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's label) * Maximum 10 * MENT RECORDING (joint venture with

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) * Motorod Records * nakedrecords * Oorong Records (joint venture with Oorong-sha Group) * Rhythm Republic *

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(third record label of the Group (1999)) ** Fluctus ** Riddim Zone ** Starz by Rhythm Zone * Rising Records * Sonic Groove * Superb Trax * Tachytelic Records (joint venture with Taku Takahashi) * Tank Top Records * Tearbridge Production * The Six Dragons * True Song Music ( Dai Nagao's label) * Velfarre Records * YGEX (joint label with

)

Entertainment ventures

* Movies ** Domestic *** Avex Pictures **** DIVE II Entertainment ** Foreign *** Elephant Pictures *** PiX Inc. * Artist Management ** Avex Management ** Platinum Productions * Digital ** Avex Broadcasting and Communications (joint venture with NTT docomo) *
mu-mo.net
(Japanese) (own music store of the Group) * Theater Company ** $4.50 Theater Company

Labels distributed

* A stAtion (

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's own record label), since 2012. * AKS Co., Ltd. (

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with its ...

's agency), since 2006. (Avex currently handles AKS' DVD releases.) * Aozora Records, since 2005. ** GMT Records, since 2005. *

Armada Music Armada Music is a Dutch independent record label that specialises in releasing electronic dance music. The name Armada derives from the first two letters of the founders' first names: Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron and David Lewis. Signed a ...

* , since 2003. * CAM Entertainment, since 2008. *

, since 2008. (co-distributed with

Victor Entertainment , also known as in Japan, is a subsidiary of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where Sony Music Ente ...

and

Universal Music Japan , often referred to as just Universal Music Japan or UMJ, is a Japanese subsidiary of the Universal Music Group founded in 1990. It is the largest subsidiary for a foreign company in the country regarding music distribution. The company is resp ...

) * Danger Crue Records, from 2006 to 2012. (now handled by

Sony Music Japan , often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is opera ...

) *

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, from 1999 to present (co-handled with

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from 2018 for albums when live converts are handled by Avex). * Fluxus Entertainment *

Free-Will is a Japanese independent record label founded in 1986 by Color vocalist Hiroshi " Dynamite Tommy" Tomioka, with branches predominantly in Japan and the United States, as well as previously in Europe. It also continues to co-manage many of i ...

** ISM Label (

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's label), since 2006. * HATS Unlimited ( Taro Hakase's label) ** AG Label * Higashiyakena Soundbuilder ( HY's label), since 2000. * I Scream Records, since 2010. (Japan only) *

(Taiwan and Hong Kong only) **

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** Johnny's Entertainment * Kontor Records *

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(co-distributed with

and BMG Japan/

) ** Almond Eyes ** Kai-san Factory *

, since 2000. * S2S Pte. Ltd. (Japan only) *

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(Taiwan only, since 2012) * Vamprose, since 2008. ( Vamps and Monoral's label) * Vandit * Vine Entertainment * Yamaha Music Communications Inc., since 2006. **

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Promotional projects

* Aoyama Christmas Circus (annual Christmas tree lighting event)

IFPI membership

The Group is a member of the

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for Hong Kong and Japan.

A-Nation

Each year since 2002, Avex has hosted a summer concert tour around Japan, "A-Nation", featuring the company's most successful acts. It is held every weekend in August in different Japanese cities. Top Avex acts like Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Koda,

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Ai Otsuka is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Suminoe-ku, Osaka, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit " Sakuranbo", which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart for 103 weeks. A piano playe ...

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, Hitomi, TRF, Every Little Thing and

perform to major crowds each year. In 2008,

made her first appearance at A-Nation and performed on all dates that year. For the first time in 2012, Kumi Koda did not perform due to her pregnancy. Festival sponsors include Joe Weider and his Weider fitness products, Seven & I Holdings Co., NTT DoCoMo, Mizuno Corp., Nissay (through its You May Dream! Project), and others.

International partners

* USA – Morgan Rich Corporation/

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– S.M. Entertainment,

, KT Music *

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–

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– BEC-TERO Music * China P.R. – China Record (Shanghai) Corporation

References

External links

Japan

*
Avex Network

Asia ex. Japan

Website in Taiwan

Website in China

Website in Hong Kong

Avex Group Asia Portal

Others

* * {{Authority control Japanese companies established in 1988 Japanese talent agencies Conglomerate companies based in Tokyo Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Japanese independent record labels Record labels established in 1988 Entertainment companies of Japan Entertainment companies established in 1988 Mass media companies established in 1988 Holding companies established in 1988 Holding companies based in Tokyo Mass media companies based in Tokyo IFPI members Multinational companies headquartered in Japan Anime companies 1999 initial public offerings

Name

History

1988–1999: The early years

2000–2009: Times of unity and divisiveness

2004: Internal feud : Max Matsuura v. Tom Yoda

2010–present

Operations

Subsidiaries

Japan

Other

Affiliates

Music labels

Entertainment ventures

Labels distributed

Promotional projects

IFPI membership

A-Nation

International partners

See also

References

External links

Japan

Asia ex. Japan

Others