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 Entertainment 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 Marvelous Entertainment 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 its 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 (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 (July 2023 - June 2025) - returned to Hololive Production

• 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 its 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

• Yena

• VIXX (CJ Victor)

• Wonho (Japan only)

• Yoko Kanno (flying DOG)

• Yuki Kajiura (flying DOG)

• Yukio Hashi

• Zardonic

• Sambomaster

Video games

1. Victor Music/Ent.

   Victor/JVC Music

   JVC Music Europe

See also

• Subsidiaries of JVC Kenwood

• EF Johnson Technologies – Multi-band portable radio company

Notes

References

External links

• Victor Entertainment