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Type
  
Private KK

Headquarters
  
Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Founder
  
Danny Long

Website
  
www.beinggiza.com

Founded
  
1 November 1978

Revenue
  
1 million JPY

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Industry
  
Music, artist development, record production, marketing, audio engineering

Key people
  
Toshinori Masuda (President & CEO)

Subsidiaries
  
B-Gram Records Big M.F Giza Studio Northern Music Pure Infinity Vermillion Records Weedz Zain Records Zazzy

Artists
  
B'z, Zard, Mai Kuraki, Izumi Sakai, Deen

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. Being Inc. and its subsidiaries are the main supplier of theme music for the anime series Detective Conan. As of May 2011, 77 theme tunes have been supplied to the anime by Being Inc.

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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.

Independent labels

  • Zain Records (1991,previously named as B.Jin)
  • VERMILLION RECORDS (1992,previously names as BMG ROOMS)
  • Giza Studio (1999)
  • B.Gram-Records (1993)
  • NORTHERN MUSIC (2007)
  • O-TOWN Jazz (2012, previously named as Giza Jazz)
  • D-Go (2012)
  • Being (2012)
  • Indies labels

  • Tent House(1999)
  • zazzy(2005)
  • magnifique(2008)
  • CRIMZON (2014)
  • Honey Bee Records (2016)
  • Former labels

  • Amemura-O-Town Record (1997)
  • BERG (1999)
  • pure:infinity (2010)
  • Styling Records (2003)
  • DAY TRACK (2003)
  • Other subsidiaries

    Being Inc. owns the acting agent and talent management company White Dream.

    Controversy

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

    Being

    Selling agency:Distribution agency:Being Incorporated

    Vermillion Records

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

  • Loudness
  • 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
  • Borderless

  • Mei
  • Yuki Takahara
  • Yanakiku
  • ZAZZY

  • Kento Takayama
  • Nyankura
  • WARMSPACE

  • BLACK////RUN
  • UNDER:OVER

  • ORANGE POST REASON
  • Magnifique

  • Rootless
  • Raptor 9
  • But by Fall
  • IVORY7 CHORD
  • Nano Sound Museum
  • pure:infinity

  • 100%Free
  • Masterlink
  • Honey Bee Records

  • Chelsy
  • Lily's Blow
  • Ruca
  • ShowBoat

  • Manabu Miyahara
  • Akira Kuraki
  • 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 (self producer)
  • E☆XYZ
  • GiNkS
  • ANTWERP
  • bug me not
  • Naoki Morioka
  • Morimoto Miki
  • O-Town Jazz

  • Natsuki Morikawa (self producer)
  • Hikari Aoki (self producer)
  • Yuki Okazaki
  • D-GO

  • Sensation (Japanese band)
  • ssllee
  • Blanky Pumpkin
  • Blue turns to Grey
  • Crimzon

  • Purple Stone
  • Shounenki
  • Gimmick.
  • Shiro no Yume
  • Kuro Hime no Muyuubyou
  • Amai Bouyroku
  • Rozetta

  • RevleZ
  • Belmosaic
  • depth

  • Hatchi/Hatch
  • Loe
  • 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
  • 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

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

    Songwriters

  • 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

    Being Inc. Wikipedia