King Records Company, Limited (キングレコード株式会社 Kingu Rekōdo Kabushiki gaisha?) is a Japanese record company, founded in 1931 as a division of Japanese publisher Kodansha. It became and began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s, but remains part of the publisher's Otowa Group. The label has had huge success with Two-Mix, Miho Nakayama, The Peanuts, Megumi Hayashibara, Masami Okui, Yuki Uchida, Nana Mizuki, Yuko Ogura, and Berryz Koubou. Now one of Japan's largest record companies not to be owned by a multinational entity, it is headquartered in Tokyo. Its Starchild label, managed by animation producer Toshimichi Otsuki, specialises in animation music and film. King Records also distributes the Up-Front Works-owned and operated label Piccolo Town. King Records has also released video games for the PC-88, Famicom, and MSX2 computers. During the 1990s, it released albums produced by Konami Music Entertainment.
Artists of King Records
- Yui Horie (currently under Starchild Records, a subdivision of King Records)
- Yukari Tamura (was under Konami Digital Entertainment, before moving to King Records beginning 2007)
- Suara (currently under FIX Records, but distributed by King Records)
- angela (currently under Starchild Records, a subdivision of King Records)
- Junko Minagawa
- Aice5
- Berryz Koubou (under Piccolo Town)
- Maki Goto (under Piccolo Town)
- v-u-den (under Piccolo Town)
- Dragonland
- faith
- Freeway High High
- Gazette
- Kra
- Megumi Hayashibara
- Anri Kumaki
- Nana Mizuki
- Onmyouza
- Rain
- SHOWTA.
- Rōma Tanaka
- Kana Uemura
- Divinefire (The record company's first and only Christian band to date)
- Aki Yamamoto
- Chihiro Yonekura
- Moonlight Agony
- Manhattan Jazz Quintet
- Alice Nine
- Kagrra
