Avex

Avex Group Holdings Inc. (エイベックス・グループ・ホールディングス株式会社), is Japan's leading dance record company since the 1990s and continues producing and recording some of Japan's most famous pop singers such as Japan's highest-selling solo musician. The company also provides theme music soundtracks to many anime and a few video games through its subsidiary Avex Mode.

Since its foundation, the company has established over 40 different in-house record labels, with some of the most notable ones being Avex Trax (first label), Rhythm Zone (third label) and Idol Street.

The artist management subsidiaries within the Avex Group are Avex Management and Platinum Productions.

The company established and has been hosting the annual summer concert a-nation since 2002. Furthermore, the Avex Group founded and manages a talent school named Avex Artist Academy.

Soloists

 * Goto Maki
 * Hamasaki Ayumi
 * Beverly
 * Anzai Kalen
 * Koda Kumi
 * PikoTaro

Groups

 * AAA
 * D-selections
 * Da-iCE
 * FAKY
 * GENIC
 * INTERSECTION
 * i☆Ris
 * kolme
 * lol
 * MONKEY MAJIK
 * Osaka☆Shunkashuto (大阪☆春夏秋冬)
 * Q'ulle
 * SOLIDEMO
 * SUPER☆GiRLS
 * TRF
 * TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE
 * Wa-Suta
 * WARPs
 * White Explosion

Bands

 * Do As Infinity
 * LUNA SEA
 * Wagakki Band

Groups

 * BeForU
 * BRIGHT
 * Cheeky Parade
 * Chubbiness
 * Dream
 * FREAK
 * GEM
 * ONE CHANCE
 * Prism☆Mates
 * Prizmmy☆
 * Prism☆Box
 * Ryoga
 * Wake Up, Girls!

Trivia

 * Artists that use Avex's record labels in order to publish music in Japan are not necessarily managed by Avex itself. Most prominent examples are Johnny & Associates artists such as Kis-My-Ft2 and Snow Man, LDH artists such as EXILE, EXILE TRIBE, E-girls and Happiness, K-Pop artists such as BoA, TVXQ, BIGBANG, EXO, BLACKPINK and IKON, and international artists such as Bruno Mars, Hardwell and YELLOW CLAW.