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Epic/Sony

Japanese record label (1978-1988)
Organization record_company Q126184102

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
record company, record label[3]
Inception
August 1978[4]
Country
Japan[2]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
March 1988[5]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Merged into
Sony Music Entertainment Japan[9]
Name
Epic/Sony[8]
Official name
株式会社エピック・ソニー[7]
Replaced by
Epic Records Japan[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Epic/Sony ja EPIC SONY ja EPIC・ソニー ja EPICソニー ja エピック・ソニー ja エピックソニー
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Discogs label ID
37615
MusicBrainz label ID
12c53048-be97-403d-805d-bc69c71211e4
Rate Your Music label ID
epic_sony

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🔗 Connections
← Mb:recording contract 8
Kiyomi Suzuki, Kiyomi Suzuki, Miyuki Utsumi, Miyuki Utsumi, Jun Sky Walker(s), Jun Sky Walker(s), Yoko Aso, Yoko Aso
← Mb:label ownership 1
Epic Records Japan
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Summary

Epic/Sony is a record company[1].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Imprint[10]

  • Country: JP[11]

  • Began / founded: 1978-08[12]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1988-03[13]

  • Community tags: clean up, imprint/holding combo[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 12c53048-be97-403d-805d-bc69c71211e4[15]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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