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| Company type | Holding company, owner of Oricon Entertainment Inc.[1] |
|---|---|
| TYO: 4800 | |
| Industry | Broadcast of music entertainment (from Japan, North America and Europe) |
| Founded | November 1967 (as Original Confidence)[1] October 1, 1999 (as Oricon Direct Digital)[2] June 2001 (as Oricon Global Entertainment) July 2002[2] |
| Headquarters | Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Soko Koike: CEO |
| Owner | see List of Oricon's shareholders |
Number of employees | 198 (full-time workers, as of September 30, 2016)[3] |
| Parent | Oricon Entertainment Inc. (October 1999 – June 2001) |
| Subsidiaries | Oricon Entertainment Inc. (June 2001 – present) |
| Website | Official site of Oricon Inc. Official site of Oricon Charts |
Oricon Inc. (株式会社オリコン, Kabushiki-gaisha Orikon), 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 Original Confidence Inc. (株式会社オリジナルコンフィデンス, Kabushiki-gaisha Orijinaru Konfidensu), which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts.[1] 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 (as of April 2011[update]) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations.[4] 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.[5]
Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2018.[6]
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- ^ a b "Overview of Oricon.Inc". Oricon Inc. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2007.
- ^ "会社概要". Oricon Inc. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ^ "Policy of the Oricon Weekly Charts". oricon.co.jp. Archived from the original on December 7, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2008.
- ^ "Official Site of Oricon Charts". oricon.co.jp. Archived from the original on November 7, 2006. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
- ^ Ronald (August 31, 2018). "Oricon to Create Combined and Streaming Charts". ARAMA! JAPAN. Archived from the original on October 12, 2022. Retrieved June 17, 2019.