LEADING JAPANESE MUSIC INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION PROMIC LAUNCHES THE JAPAN ANIME MUSIC LAB. WEBSITE
New
JAM LAB. Website Is Designed To Connect International Music And
Licensing Professionals As Well As Event And Concert Promoters With The
Top Echelon Of Japanese “Ani-Song” Artists
Tokyo, Japan February 27, 2018 –
PROMIC, the leading Japanese entertainment industry foundation to
support the growth of Japanese music internationally, has announced the
launch of the Japan Anime Music Lab. (JAM LAB.).
The website, located at; www.japan-animemusic.com
serves as an official information hub to connect international
audiences and entertainment and music industry professionals with the
top echelon of Japanese “ani-song” artists and their respective official
representatives. The scope of the JAM LAB. website will continue to
evolve and expand and PROMIC aims to also add a variety of established
artists from the genres of J-Pop and J-Rock in the future.
The
JAM LAB. website is available in English (as well as in other languages
with the aid of online website translation tools) and contains accurate
and continually updated artist news and information as well as
designated and accurate contacts for artists and their respective
recorded music.
The
anime genre enjoys substantial popularity around the world. Many
popular Japanese pop and rock artists are tapped to perform the theme
songs to anime series and feature films. The popularity of these series
has become a successful way to showcase these artists to Western
audiences and legions of anime and pop culture fans are also avid fans
of many of these musical artists. Many Japanese artists have channeled
their growing global popularity to gain new audiences and to tour
internationally.
Japanese
companies and record labels participating in JAM LAB. include AVEX,
SACRA MUSIC (a Sony Music label), Lantis, King Record, Pony Canyon,
Flying Dog, Yoshimoto Music Entertainment, For Life Music Entertainment,
NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, MAGES., Being, Nippon Columbia,
Tokuma Japan Communications, and Toho Music.
Artists
currently featured on the JAM LAB. website include: Maaya Sakamoto,
Nana Mizuki, May'n, Ali Project, LiSA, JAM Project, Kalafina, EGOIST,
ClariS, GARNiDELiA, Konomi Suzuki, fripSide, Nagi Yanagi, and Kanoko
Ito.
Additional participants are currently preparing to join.
“The
Japanese music community knows that many overseas events and music
professionals often have difficultly connecting with the appropriate
record label, management or booking agent personnel and the combined
language and cultural barriers have often made it challenging to find
official and accurate information,” says Tak Furuichi, Director of
PROMIC. “The JAM LAB. website was designed to address these issues and
is the content aimed at international record labels and licensing
entities interested in locally exploiting music and content by Japanese
artists, as well as concert and event promoters and a wide range of
anime and industry related press and professionals.”
About PROMIC
The
Foundation for the Promotion of Music Industry and Culture (PROMIC) is a
Japanese foundation created in 1993 to support the growth of Japanese
music internationally and to promote international business
relationships through music. The
foundation is supported by the Japanese music industry and the main
supporting members of the foundation are; major Japanese record labels
and music trade bodies and associations representing; artists,
performers, record labels, management companies, music publishers,
concert promoters and music retailers. In 2017, PROMIC took on the
international outbound promotional responsibilities of the Japanese
recorded music organization and local IFPI national group, Recording
Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).
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