Being Inc.

Being Inc.
株式会社ビーイング

Type	Private KK
Industry	Music, artist development, record production, marketing, audio engineering
Founded	November 1, 1978
Founder	Daiko Nagato
Headquarters	Thomas Building, 5-2-2 Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan[1]
Key people	Toshinori Masuda (President & CEO)
Revenue	1,000,000 yen
Subsidiaries	B-Gram Records Big M.F Giza Studio Northern Music Pure Infinity Vermillion Records Weedz Zain Records Zazzy
Website	www.beinggiza.com

Being Incorporated (株式会社ビーイング Kabushiki Gaisha Beingu), d.b.a. Being Giza Group, is a Japanese private entertainment conglomerate based in Tokyo's Roppongi district, founded on November 1, 1978 by musician Daiko Nagato.^[1] Being Inc. and its subsidiaries are the main supplier of theme music for the anime series Detective Conan.^[2] As of May 2011, 77 theme tunes have been supplied to the anime by Being Inc.

Labels

Nowadays production-based record company are no longer rare thing, however Being has established a dedicated record company and label in quick succession since 1991. Label companies under the label companies that are part of Being Inc. are also subsequently owned by Being Inc. It includes indies labels as well.^[3]

Independent labels

• Zain Records^[4] (1991,previously named as B.Jin)
• VERMILLION RECORDS^[5] (1992,previously names as BMG ROOMS)
• Giza Studio^[6] (1999)
• B.Gram-Records^[7] (1993)
• NORTHERN MUSIC^[8] (2007)
• O-TOWN Jazz (2012, previously named as Giza Jazz)
• D-Go ^[9] (2012)
• Being (2012)

Indies labels

• Tent House(1999) ^[10]
• zazzy(2005)
• magnifique(2008)
• CRIMZON (2014)
• Honey Bee Records (2016)

Former labels

• Amemura-O-Town Record (1997)
• BERG (1999)
• pure:infinity^[11] (2010)
• Styling Records (2003)
• DAY TRACK (2003)

Other subsidiaries

Being Inc. owns the acting agent and talent management company White Dream.^[12]

Controversy

Last June 2001, Being and its subsidiary B+U+M^[13] (now merged into Vermillion Records) was found to have failed to declare 840 million yen in income.^[14] They were acquitted after the investigation.^[13]

Record label affiliation artists

Being

Selling agency：Distribution agency：Being Incorporated

Vermillion Records

• B'z（music producer is Tak Matsumoto）
  • Tak Matsumoto (self producer)
  • Koshi Inaba (self producer)

Northern music

Since October 2011 Being has absorbed Northern Music

• Mai Kuraki (music producer is KANONJI)
• Yumi Shizukusa (self producer)

B-Gram Records

• ZARD
• B.B.Queens

Being

• Maki Ohguro
• Shiori Niiyama (music producer is Sasaji Masanori)
• Takuto
• La PomPon
• Renka
• UMI☆KUUN
• KNOCK OUT MONKEY (self-producer)
• VALSHE
• doriko
• Yuki Takahara
• Kenji Takayama
• minato
• Ikurou Fujiwara
• Ran Matsumoto
• Mei
• Yanakiku

Zain Records

• BREAKERZ (self producer)
  • DAIGO (self producer)
  • AKIHIDE (self producer)
  • MUSCLE ATTACK (SHINPEI's band)
• DIMENSION (self-producer)
• Kondou Funanosuke (self producer)
• Ryu
• Nyankura

Giza studio

Distribution agency：Giza Incorporated

J-Pop

• Marie Ueda (self producer)
• Chicago Poodle (self producer)
• Doa (self producer)
• Super Light (self producer)
• D-project
• Caos Caos Caos
  • Nori Shiraishi (self producer)

O-Town Jazz

• Natsuki Morikawa (self producer)
• Hikari Aoki (self producer)
• Yuki Okazaki

D-GO

• Sensation (japanese band)
• ssllee

Former record label affiliation artists

Being

Northern Music

• Sparkling☆Point
• Michael Africk

B-Gram Records

• DEEN →transferred to Berg label
• WANDS
• ZYYG
• Barbier
• Gears
• Ikuko Nakahata
• Yukiko Mizushima
• Emi Makiho

Amemura O-town Records

• Miho Komatsu →came from Zain Records/Spoonful, in 1999 transferred to Giza Studio Label
• Yumi Shiina
• Arisa Tsujio →came from Zain Records/Spoonful,

Zain Records

• Field of View
• T-Bolan
• Keiko Utoku →in 2013 transferred to UK Sweet label
• Miho Komatsu →shortly after debut she was transferred to Amemura O-town Records label
• Yumi Shizukusa →in 2007 moved to Northern Music label
• BAAD
• FEEL SO BAD
• REV
• MOON
• MANISH
• MR.ORANGE
• MR. BIG
• Jasmin
• flow-war
• BUZZLIP
• BA-JI
• TWINZER
• organs cafe
• SCHON
• XL
• West Road Blues Band
• M la Minor
• Eri Nishida
• Atsushi Shindou
• Arisa Tsujio
• Kaori Nanao
• Jun Manaka
• Yumiko Morishita
• Chii Mimoto
• Aiko Yanagihara

Giza studio

J-Pop

• GRASS ARC.
• DEAR RESONANCE
• Sweet Velvet
• JASON ZODIAC
• Soul Crusaders
• Mika Hase
• New Cinema Tokage
• Miki Matsuhashi
• Chika Yoshida
• Les MAUVAIS GARÇONNES]]
• Rumania Montevideo
• Ramjet Pulley
• Nothin' but love (band)
• Hikari Yamaguchi
• Jewerly
• WAG
• Yumi Shizukusa (2005, moved to Zain Records in 2006 and in moved to Northern Music in 2007 (also a label under Being Inc.)
• Akane Sugazaki
• Mai Kuraki (2007, moved to Northern Music, also a label under Being Inc.)
• Hayami Kishimoto
• Sayuri Iwata
• Shiori Takei
• the★tambourines
• Miho Komatsu
• Aya Kamiki
• Naifu
• PINC INC.
• Rina Aiuchi
• Azumi Uehara
• U-ka Saegusa in dB
• Hiromi Haneda
• Gulliver Get
• Aiko Kitahara
• Saasa
• GARNET CROW
• WAR-ED

D-GO

• grram
• Natsuiro

Creators

Lyricists, composers and arrangers has enrolled into a large number. Official site has been established to describe list in alphabetical order Being Music Creators.^[15]

lyricist

• Azuki Nana (ex.Garnet Crow)
• Uesugi Show (ex.Wands)
• Koshi Inaba (B'z)
• Maki Ohguro
• U-ka Saegusa (ex.U-ka Saegusa in dB)
• Miho Komatsu
• Izumi Sakai (ex.Zard)
• Daria Kawashima
• Nobuteru Maeda (TUBE)
• ROCKAKU (the creator of Being Inc. Daikou Nagato used alternative name)
• Mami Miyoshi (ex. Rumania Montevideo)

etc.

composers

• Hiroshi Asai (ex. the tambourines, Sensation)
• Miho Komatsu
• Koshi Inaba (B'z)
• Maki Ohguro
• Naoki Uzumoto (ex. Deen (band)|DEEN)
• Hitoshi Okamoto (ex. Garnet Crow)
• Aika Ohno
• Shinichirou Ohta (Doa (Japanese band)|doa)
• Daria Kawashima
• Masazumi Ozawa (ex. PAMELAH)
• Kouji Gotou (ex.ZYYG)
• Seiichirou Kuribayashi
• Tetsurō Oda
• Akihito Tokunaga (Doa (Japanese band)|doa)
• Yoshio Tatano
• Hiroshi Terao
• Tak Matsumoto (B'z)
• Yuri Nakamura (ex. Garnet Crow)
• Makoto Miyoshi (ex. rumania montevideo)

etc.

arrangers

• Hirohito Furui (ex. Garnet Crow)
• Hitoshi Okamoto (ex.Garnet Crow)
• Daisuke Ikeda
• Yoshinobu Ohga
• Satoru Kobayashi
• Akihito Tokunaga (doa)
• Takeshi Hayama
• Masazumi Ozawa
• Koji Gotou

etc.

References

1. "Being Inc. "About us"". Being Inc. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
2. "Detective Conan theme music" (in Japanese). Being Inc. Archived from the original on 19 June 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
3. Being labels (in Japanese) http://www.beinggiza.com/en/label.html
4. http://beinggiza.com/zain.html
5. http://www.bz-vermillion.com/
6. http://www.giza.co.jp/
7. http://beinggiza.com/b-gram.html
8. http://northernmusic.jp/
9. http://d-go-osaka.jp/
10. Indies labels (in Japanese) http://www.beinggiza.com/indies.html
11. http://www.beinggiza.com/pureinfinity.html
12. "White Dream links" (in Japanese). White Dream. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
13. "B'z production company failed to declare 840 mil. yen income.". The Free Library. 2001-07-02. Retrieved 2012-08-28.
14. "Entertainment Firm in Tax Evasion Tangle". The Japan Times. 2001-08-29. Retrieved 2012-08-28. "This incident comes just two months after the Tokyo-based production firm behind pop music duo B'z was found to have failed to declare 840 million yen in income."
15. Being Creators list (in Japanese) http://beingcreators.net/

External links

• Official website
• Being Inc.'s channel on YouTube
• Being Inc.'s channel on Nico Nico Douga