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History

• April 1972: Victor Musical Industries, Inc. (ビクター音楽産業株式会社, Bikutā Ongaku Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is spun off as a subsidiary of JVC.
• September 30, 1982: JVC Musical Industries, Inc. is founded in the U.S.¹
• February 1984: The sales and marketing department of JVC is spun off as Nihon AVC, Inc. (日本エイ・ブイ・シー株式会社, Nihon EiBuiShī Kabushiki-gaisha).
• January 1990: JVC Musical Industries announces its first video game release will be Boulder Dash.²
• October 30, 1991: JVC Musical Industries Europe, Ltd. is founded.³
• April 1993: Nihon AVC and Victor Musical Industries merge and the name is changed to Victor Entertainment, Inc. (ビクターエンタテインメント株式会社, Bikutā Entateinmento Kabushiki-gaisha).
• 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.⁴
• May 14, 1997: JVC Musical Industries Europe is renamed to JVC Music Europe, Ltd.⁵
• February 24, 1999: JVC Music, Inc. is dissolved⁶
• March 1999: Victor Entertainment's main office is moved.
• March 31, 2003: Victor Interactive Software is acquired by Marvelous Entertainment and becomes Marvelous Interactive.⁷
• May 8, 2006: JVC Music Europe is dissolved.⁸
• 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.⁹

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 (SCANDAL'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
• RCA Records
• 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. (joint venture 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)
• Anthem
• Alesha Dixon
• ALI PROJECT (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)
• Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas
• 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
• Maaya Sakamoto (flying DOG)
• Mamamoo (Japan only)
• Mariko Takahashi
• Masumi
• Matt Bianco
• May'n (flying DOG)
• Megumi Nakajima (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
• Scandal (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
• Southern All Stars
• Steve Barakatt
• Supergroupies
• Sweet Vacation
  • Yuko Hara (solo and duet releases with SMAP member Shingo Katori)
  • 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

See also

• Subsidiaries of JVC Kenwood
• EF Johnson Technologies – Multi-band portable radio company

Notes

External links

• (in Japanese) Victor Entertainment
• Victor Entertainment at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

References

1. "Articles of Incorporation of JVC Musical Industries, Inc". California Secretary of State. September 30, 1982. https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=01159014-3517931 ↩

2. "Coming from Nintendo Licensees". Computer Entertainer. January 1990. https://archive.org/details/ComputerEntertainerJanuary1990/page/n15/mode/1up ↩

3. "JVC MUSIC EUROPE LTD". OpenCorporates. Retrieved May 13, 2021. https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/02658569 ↩

4. "Certificate of Amendment: JVC Musical Industries, Inc". California Secretary of State. May 1, 1997. https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=01159014-6177776 ↩

5. "JVC MUSIC EUROPE LTD.: Certificate of Incorporation on Change of Name". OpenCorporates. Retrieved May 13, 2021. https://opencorporates.com/filings/8783487 ↩

6. "Certificate of Dissolution: JVC Music, Inc". California Secretary of State. February 24, 1999. https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=01159014-6995155 ↩

7. Niizumi, Hirohiko (March 24, 2003). "The creator of the Harvest Moon series is being bought out by Marvelous Entertainment". Gamespot. Retrieved January 16, 2012. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6023656.html ↩

8. "JVC MUSIC EUROPE LTD.: Filing dated 8 May 2006". OpenCorporates. Retrieved May 13, 2021. https://opencorporates.com/filings/8783434 ↩

9. "社名（商号）変更のお知らせ". プレスリリース・ニュースリリース配信シェアNo.1｜PR TIMES (in Japanese). March 29, 2024. Retrieved July 15, 2024. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000069.000002863.html ↩