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Victor Entertainment, Incorporated
Type	Subsidiary of Japan Victor Company (JVC)
Founded	Yokohama, Japan (April 25,1972)
Headquarters	Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Yuichi Kaito, President; Toshiaki Shibutani, Managing Director
Industry	Entertainment
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)
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 Kangyō^?).

[edit] 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^?)
October 1987 — Victor Music Industries striked a deal with BMG Japan after RCA Records sold its interests to BMG
April 1993 — Nihon AVC and Victor Music Industries merge and the name is changed to Victor Entertainment
March 1999 — Moved main office
October 1999 — Transferred deal to BMG Funhouse
October 2005 — Transferred deal back to BMG Japan
January 2009 — Sony Music Entertainment Japan bought BMG Japan

[edit] Labels

[edit] 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
Nafin
Speedstar International
Speedstar Records
Taishita (Southern All Stars Private Label)
Victor
Victory (defunct; not same as US label)

[edit] Distribution

Bad News
Daipro-X
Marquee, Inc.
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

[edit] Video

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

[edit] Major artists

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

AKINO from bless4 (flying DOG)
Anthem
Alesha
ALI PROJECT (flying DOG)
Akino Arai (flying DOG)
Angra
Mika Arisaka
The Back Horn
Blessed By A Broken Heart
Steve Barakatt
Chocolate & Akito
Cocco
The Cobra Sisters
cymbals
Daigo☆Stardust
Death from Above 1979 (Japanese distribution rights)
Leah Dizon
Dragon Ash
FictionJunction (flying DOG)
FictionJunction Yuuka (flying DOG)
Full of Harmony
Fūmidō
Gari
Going Under Ground
Guniw Tools
80★PAN!
Impellitteri
Jero
Kazuyoshi Saito
Miho Hatori
Chiaki Ishikawa (flying DOG)
Yoko Kanno (flying DOG)
Yuki Kajiura (flying DOG)
Kigurumi
- Kei (joined "Kigurumi" on November 7, 2007.)
- Miki (joined "Kigurumi" on November 7, 2007.)
- Rena
Kigurumichiko
- Rena (Kigurumi)
- Michiko Shimizu
Kiko Loureiro
Kiroro
Kokia
Kyōko Koizumi
Lisa Komine (flying DOG)
Love Psychedelico
Lunkhead
Masumi
Matt Bianco
May'n (flying DOG)

Merry
Minmi
Miz
The Morning After
Megumi Nakajima (flying DOG)
Takeshi Nakatsuka
Rimi Natsukawa
Aina Ōgi
Kiyofumi Ōno
Oozekitaku
Paris Match
PIG
Quruli
Remioromen
ROUND TABLE featuring Nino (flying DOG)
Sakanaction
Shinichi Mori
Noriko Sakai
Maaya Sakamoto(flying DOG)
savage genius (flying DOG)
See-Saw (flying DOG)
Shunsuke Kiyokiba (former EXILE vocalist that was signed under Avex)
Shōnen Kamikaze
Singer Songer
SMAP
- Goro Inagaki (also goes by &G)
- Shingo Katori
- Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
- Masahiro Nakai
Source
Southern All Stars
Sweet Vacation
- Yuko Hara (solo and duet releases with SMAP member Shingo Katori)
- Keisuke Kuwata/Kuwata Band
- Hiroshi Matsuda
- Hideyuki Nozawa
- Kazuyuki Sekiguchi
Toshihiko Tahara (transferred from Pony Canyon)(Management Only)
Mariko Takahashi
Tokyo Ethmusica
UA
Aimi Yuguchi
Yukio Hashi
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Yui Makino

[edit] Distribution managments

BMG Japan (1987-1999), (2005-2008)
BMG Funhouse (1999-2005)
Sony Music Entertainment Japan (2009-present)

Note that Victor Music Industries was self distributing from 1972 to 1987.

[edit] External links

(Japanese) Victor Entertainment

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