is a Japanese
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...
also working as a subsidiary of TY Limited Incorporated.
Its chairman is Tom Yoda, ex-chairman of
Avex Group
is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate led by founder Max Matsuura and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1988, the company manages J-pop talents like Ayumi Hamasaki and internet sensation PikoTaro. It has also shifted into other busi ...
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Labels
* Dreamusic Overseas
* Teenage Symphony Label
* Feel Mee (from assets acquired from
Interchannel
was a Japanese video game developer and publisher.
History
Interchannel was founded on October 2, 1995 as an NEC subsidiary named . Its founding was a result of divisions within NEC being spun off. NEC Interchannel took over NEC Avenue's musi ...
in 2013)
Artists
Domestic
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Funky Monkey Babys
is a Japanese band formed in 2004 under the record company Dreamusic Incorporated.
Their music is mostly hip hop, but is also inspired by pop and rock music. All members in the group are from Hachiōji, Tokyo. They are known for featuring c ...
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Doll Elements
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Yōichi Aoyama
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Yūzō Kayama
is a Japanese popular musician, singer-songwriter and actor.
Life and career
Son of mid-twentieth century film star Ken Uehara,and actress Yoko Kozakura, ( ja) Kayama graduated from Keio University. Yuzo Kayama signed with Toho and made hi ...
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Hiroko Nakamura
was a Japanese pianist.
Born Hiroko Fukuda in Yamanashi, she grew up in Tokyo. She began to study piano at the age of 3 at Toho Gakuen School of Music under Aiko Iguchi. In 1959, whilst a student at Chutobu Junior High School, she won first ...
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Ayaka Hirahara
is a Japanese pop singer. She was affiliated with the Dreamusic label until 2013 when she moved to Universal Music Japan.
Biography
Hirahara comes from a musical family; her father, Makoto Hirahara, is a saxophone player, her grandfather, T ...
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Ryoko Moriyama
(born January 18, 1948) is a Japanese folk singer and actress. Her father is Hisashi Moriyama, a pioneer of Japanese jazz. Her son Naotarō Moriyama is a singer. Her first cousin Hiroshi Kamayatsu is also a musician.
She is known as the ''Ja ...
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Hiroshi Ikematsu
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Kana Oshita
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Color Bottle
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Kawae Minoko
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Shinji Kuno
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Yukie Sone
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Norimasa Fujisawa
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Platinum
Platinum is a chemical element with the symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name originates from Spanish , a diminutive of "silver".
Pla ...
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Minji
* Meilin
* Gyunta
* Teenage Symphony (Dreamusic/Teenage Symphony)
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Jam 9
* T4
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Lisa Ono
Lisa Ono (小野リサ; born 29 July 1962) is a Brazilian Japanese bossa nova singer.
Life
Lisa Ono was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10. From that time on she spent half of every year in ...
International
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Elliot Minor
Elliot Minor are an English rock band from York, England. The band currently consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Alex Davies, vocalist and guitarist Ed Minton, drummer Dan Hetherton, bassist Ed Hetherton and keyboardist Ali Paul. The band ...
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Dúné
Dúné ew-naywere a Danish rock band from Skive. At their split-up in 2018 the band consisted of Mattias Kolstrup (lead vocalist), Piotrek Wasilewski (bass, keysboards, backing vocals), and Ole Bjórn (keyboards, backing vocals, production). ...
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Erik Mongrain
Erik Mongrain (born April 12, 1980 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian composer and guitarist. He has a unique and dark acoustic style, with a wide array of different techniques, approaches and textures reminiscent of Michael Hedges. Wide ...
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Smile.dk
Smile.dk (sometimes written SMiLE.dk or Smile-dk, pronounced ''Smile D-K'') or Smile is a Swedish Eurodance group with Veronica Almqvist as the only current member. The band is known for many songs featured in music video games, such as ''Dance ...
* Sunshine State
* Caitlyn
* Mon Roe
* Kids on Bridges
* BABY BLUE (
MNL48
MNL48 (read as ''M.N.L. Forty-eight'') is a Filipino idol girl group based in Manila, Philippines. Formed in 2018, they are the fourth international sister group of AKB48, after Indonesia's JKT48, China's SNH48 (''former''), and Thailand's B ...
sub-unit)
Reference:
Former
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Jun Shibata
, nicknamed "Shibajun", is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter. In 2016 she was diagnosed with partial hearing loss.
Musical characteristics
Many of her songs are of slow and medium tempo and/or ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, of ...
(Active, 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 ...
)
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YamaArashi (Active, with
Knife Edge)
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Amin (Active, with Victor Entertainment)
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MisaChi (Active, unsigned)
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Miku Nakamura (Active, unsigned)
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Machine
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Rockwell (Active, with
U's Music)
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Masanori Sera
Masanori Sera ( ja, 世良公則) is a Japanese singer and actor from Fukuyama Hiroshima. He graduated from Osaka University of Arts. As a singer Sera's rock band, Sera Masanori&TWIST appeared in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen twice (1978 and 1979). He ...
(Retired, since 2008)
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Silent Siren
was a Japanese all-female band formed in 2010 and associated with Platinum Production. The members consist of three fashion models: Sumire Yoshida (lead vocals and guitar), Aina Yamauchi (bass guitar), and Yukako Kurosaka (keyboard). Ayana Sōg ...
(Active, with
EMI Records Japan
EMI Records Japan was a Japanese record label which operated as a sublabel of Universal Music Japan. Established in April 2013, it was the successor of its previous entity as a company, EMI Music Japan. The sublabel's headquarters was located a ...
)
Distribution
Sony Music Entertainment Japan Incorporated is the current distributor of Dreamusic and is one of its shareholders.
Dreamusic was formerly distributed by
Columbia Music Entertainment
, often pronounced ''Korombia'', operating internationally as , is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd. It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK C ...
from 2003 to 2007 and by
King Records from 2007 to 2010.
Shareholders
* TY Limited
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Taito
is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. I ...
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Takara Tomy
is a Japanese entertainment company that makes children's toys and merchandise. It was created from a merger on March 1st 2006 of two companies: Tomy (founded in 1924 as Tomiyama, changing the name to Tomy in 1963) and long-time rival Tak ...
* Sony Music Entertainment Japan
* Gaku Records
* Japan-Asia Holdings
* Dai-ichi Hoki
* Nihon Unicom
* Rentrak
* Atoss International
Reference:
See also
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List of record labels
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Tom Yoda
is a Japanese businessman.
Profile
Born May 27, 1940 in Chikuma, Nagano-ken, Tatsumi (nicknamed Tom) finished high school at Nagano HS in 1959 and Business Administration at Meiji University in 1963.
In 1969, he became Sansui Electric's dire ...
References
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