is a

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of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as

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and television shows in Japan. It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where

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operates the RCA Victor label.

History

*April 1972: is spun off as a subsidiary of JVC. *September 30, 1982: JVC Musical Industries, Inc. is founded in the U.S. *February 1984: The sales and marketing department of JVC is spun off as . *January 1990: JVC Musical Industries announces its first video game release will be '' Boulder Dash''. *October 30, 1991: JVC Musical Industries Europe, Ltd. is founded. *April 1993: Nihon AVC and Victor Musical Industries merge and the name is changed to . *October 1, 1996: Victor Interactive Software takes over video game-related activities after Pack-In-Video is merged with Victor Entertainment. *May 1, 1997: JVC Musical Industries is renamed to JVC Music, Inc. *May 14, 1997: JVC Musical Industries Europe is renamed to JVC Music Europe, Ltd. *February 24, 1999: JVC Music, Inc. is dissolved *March 1999: Victor Entertainment's main office is moved. *March 31, 2003: Victor Interactive Software is acquired by

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and becomes Marvelous Interactive. *May 8, 2006: JVC Music Europe is dissolved. *April 2014: Victor Entertainment's corporate name is changed to JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment Corporation. *April 2024: JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment changed their corporate name back to Victor Entertainment, Inc.

Labels

Records

*AB-Victor France *Aosis Records *CJ Victor Entertainment (joint venture with CJ E&M of South Korea) * Colourful Records **ELA Music ( Kaela Kimura's label) **her (

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's label) *Cypress Showers *Getting Better *Globe Roots *Happy House *Hihirecords (for babies and kids) *Invitation *JVC Entertainment (production, artist managements, and overseas products) **Flying Dog (animation-related products) *FlyingStar Records (formerly BabeStar Label) **rookiestar *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 *Zen (Japanese sub-label of Victor)

Distribution

* 3CG Records * 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 *

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* Revolver Music *Substance * Teichiku Entertainment (Subsidiary of Victor Entertainment until 2015.) **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. (

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between WOWOW, Horipro and Disk Garage)

Video

* Nelvana *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).

* Atarashii Gakko! (Also under 88rising) * 9nine (2009–2010) * Alexandra Stan * Akino Arai (flying DOG) * AKINO from bless4 (flying DOG) *

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* Alesha Dixon *

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(flying DOG) * Amorphis * Angra * AZKi * Batten Showjo Tai (Colourful Records) * The Back Horn * The Bawdies (Victor/Getting Better) * Billlie (Japan only) * Blessed By A Broken Heart * Buck-Tick (1987–1996; 2016–present under their vanity label Lingua Sounda) * Chanmina (2016–2017) (Warner Music Japan 2018–present) * Chiaki Ishikawa (flying DOG) * CNBLUE ( AI Ent./Victor) – left Victor for Warner * Cocco * Cravity (Japan only) * Cross Vein *cymbals * D (CJ Victor) * Daigo☆Stardust * Death from Above 1979 (Japanese distribution rights) *Dew * Doll$Boxx * Dragon Ash (Mob Squad/Victor) * FictionJunction (flying DOG) ** FictionJunction YUUKA (flying DOG) *

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* Fuki Commune * Gacharic Spin *Gari * Going Under Ground * Guniw Tools * Hanson (Japan only) * Maia Hirasawa (Japan only) * Leo Ieiri (Colourful Records) * Impellitteri *IVVY * Hiromi Iwasaki * Jero * Junko Sakurada * Kaela Kimura (2013–present) * Kigurumi **Kei (joined "Kigurumi" on November 7, 2007.) **Miki (joined "Kigurumi" on November 7, 2007.) ** Rena * Kelly Sweet * Kigurumichiko **Rena (Kigurumi) ** Michiko Shimizu * Kiko Loureiro * Kiroro * Kitaro * Kokia * Kyōko Koizumi * Kyūso Nekokami * Leah Dizon * Lisa Komine (flying DOG) *Liv Moon * Lovebites * Love Psychedelico * Lovely Summer Chan

* Lunkhead *

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(flying DOG) * Mamamoo (Japan only) * Mariko Takahashi *Masumi * Matt Bianco * May'n (flying DOG) *

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(flying DOG) * Merry * Miho Hatori * Mika Arisaka * Miki Matsubara (1987–1989) * Minmi * Miz * Nano (flying DOG) * never young beach * Noriko Sakai (1987–2009) * Nujabes * Orange Range (2012–, Spice Records/Super Echo Label/Speedstar Records) * ONF (Japan only) * Paris Match * PIG * Pink Lady * Plastic Tree (CJ Victor) * Purple Kiss (Japan only) * Quruli * Remioromen * Reol * Rimi Natsukawa *ROMEO ( Park Jung Min , SS501) * ROUND TABLE featuring Nino (flying DOG) * Rurika Yokoyama (CJ Victor) * Sakanaction * savage genius (flying DOG) * Sayuri Yoshinaga *

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(her) * See-Saw (flying DOG) * Sung Si-kyung * Shinichi Mori * Shunsuke Kiyokiba (former EXILE vocalist that was signed under Avex) * SikTh – Japan only * Silent Descent * SMAP ** Masahiro Nakai ** Kimura Takuya ** Goro Inagaki (also goes by &G) ** Tsuyoshi Kusanagi **

Shingo Katori is a Japanese actor, singer, television host, and radio personality. He was the youngest member of SMAP, one of the best-selling boy band, boy bands in Asia. Early life Katori was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa and moved to Tokyo to pursue his car ...

Southern All Stars , also known by the abbreviations and SAS, are a Japanese rock band formed in Kanagawa in 1974. The band is composed of Keisuke Kuwata (lead vocals and guitars), Yuko Hara (vocals and keyboards), Kazuyuki Sekiguchi (bass), (drums) and (pe ...

* Steve Barakatt * Supergroupies * Sweet Vacation ** Yuko Hara (solo and duet releases with SMAP member

) ** Keisuke Kuwata/Kuwata Band ** Hiroshi Matsuda ** Kazuyuki Sekiguchi ** * Tokino Sora * Toy-Box *Traffic Light. (MeseMoa.'s sub-group) * UA * VIXX (CJ Victor) * Wonho (Japan only) * Yoko Kanno (flying DOG) * Yuki Kajiura (flying DOG) * Yukio Hashi * Zardonic * Sambomaster

Video games

;Victor Music/Ent. ;Victor/JVC Music ;JVC Music Europe

Notes

References

External links

Victor Entertainment
* {{Authority control Anime companies Mass media companies based in Tokyo IFPI members Japanese record labels Mass media companies established in 1972 JVCKenwood 1972 establishments in Japan