, established in 1999, is the
holding company at the head of a Japanese
corporate group that supplies
statistics and information on music and the
music industry in
Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its
music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.
They are compiled using data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in
Oricon Style by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for
television commercials on its official website.
History
Original Confidence Inc., the original Oricon company, was founded by the former
Snow Brand Milk Products promoter Sōkō Koike in 1967. That November, the company began publishing a singles chart on an experimental basis.Entitled (it means "surveys of total entertainment markets"), this went official on January 4, 1968.
Like the preceding Japanese music charts provided by Tokushin Music Report which was started in 1962, early
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