Nippon Crown Explained

Parent:	Nippon Columbia (pre-1963) Mitsubishi Electric (1963 - 2001) Daiichi Kosho Company (2001 - present)^[1]
Founded:	September 6, 1963
Distributor:	self-distributed
Genre:	various
Country:	Japan
Url:	http://www.crownrecord.co.jp/

is a Japanese record label established as Crown Records on 6 September 1963.^[2] It is a spin-off of Nippon Columbia and is owned by karaoke maker Daiichikosho. The record label singles which topped the Oricon Singles Chart are Kaze's "22-Sai no Wakare" (1975),^[3] and Gackt's "Returner (Yami no Shūen)" (2007).^[4]

Artists

Artists signed to Nippon Crown Music include:

• Band-Maid (on sublabel Revolver Records) (until 2020)
• Bis (on sublabel Revolver Records)
• BRADIO
• Date of Birth (Dob) (on sublabel Hasin Music)
• Mao Denda
• Gackt (later on independent sublabel Dears)
• Hanaboy
• Haruomi Hosono
• Tomomi Kasai
• Kimeru
• Saburō Kitajima
• Metis
• mizca
• Man with a Mission
• Lovely Doll
• Nightmare
• Mayo Okamoto
• Paradisio
• Predia (on sublabel Revolver Records)
• Psycho le Cému
• Seo In-guk
• Taeko Ohnuki
  • • Unchain (on sublabel Revolver Records)
• Vidoll
• Zigzo (on sublabel Crown Stones)

See also

• List of record labels
• Daiichi Kosho Company
• Nippon Columbia
• Mitsubishi Electric (Nippon Crown's former shareholder)

External links

• 日本クラウン株式会社 Official Website
• Nippon Crown at discogs.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Company. Nippon Crown. 2019-02-02. ja.
2. Web site: Nippon Crown. Bloomberg. 2019-02-02.
3. Web site: https://entamedata.web.fc2.com/music/hit_music1975.html. ja:1975年シングル年間ヒットチャート. Japanese Year-End Singles Chart 1975. Oricon. ja. 2012-03-03.
4. Web site: Gackt、1999年デビュー以来初の1位獲得!. 2007-06-26. Oricon. ja. https://web.archive.org/web/20070630000908/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/45823/. 2007-06-30.