Oricon
Sign in to save, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Oricon Inc.株式会社オリコン
- Company.logo
- ORICON.svg
- Company.type
- Holding company, owner of Oricon Entertainment Inc.
- Company.foundation
- November 1967 (as Original Confidence)October 1, 1999 (as Oricon Direct Digital)June 2001 (as Oricon Global Entertainment)July 2002
- Company.location
- Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
- Company.key_people
- Soko Koike: CEO
- Company.industry
- Broadcast of music entertainment (from Japan, North America and Europe)
- Company.num_employees
- 198 (full-time workers, as of September 30, 2016)
- Company.owner
- see List of Oricon's shareholders
- Company.parent
- Oricon Entertainment Inc. (October 1999 – June 2001)
- Company.subsid
- Oricon Entertainment Inc. (June 2001 – present)
- Company.homepage
- Official site of Oricon Inc.Official site of Oricon Charts Japan Anime News
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Policy
- Controversy
- Shareholders
- Charts
- Current charts
- Past charts
- Top Artists' total sales revenue by year
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002.
The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in Oricon Style by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website.