is a Japanese entertainment company specializing in artists' development, management, and production.

It is structured as a holding company for various entertainment companies that represent various areas within the industry and work with each other.

Its subsidiaries include the talent agency Up-Front Promotion that trains and manages female idol singers and the music and video production company Up-Front Works that operates such record labels as Zetima, Piccolo Town, Hachama, Rice Music. Up-Front Promotion idols release their music through Up-Front Works' in-house labels. Moreover, Up-Front Works issues idols and non-idols affiliated with other talent agencies belonging to Up-Front Group, such as J.P Room and Up-Front Create.

Subsidiaries Up-Front Promotion J.P Room Up-Front Create Up-Front Trend Up-Front Works etc.

Up-Front Promotion is a talent agency formerly known as Up-Front Agency. All musical artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion are collectively known as Hello! Project.

The list of artists under Up-Front Promotion includes:

Groups Morning Musume Angerme Juice=Juice Camellia Factory Beyooooonds Chica#Tetsu Rain Forest River Ocean SeasoningS Ocha Norma Rosy Chronicle

Soloists Moe Kamikokuryō Rika Shimakura

Trainees Hello Pro Kenshūsei

J.P Room is a talent agency headquartered in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. The list of artists under J.P Room includes the following former Hello! Project members:

Soloists

Kiki Asakura Mizuki Fukumura Manaka Inaba Ayumi Ishida

Karin Miyamoto Yuka Miyazaki Chisaki Morito Mai Ozeki

Rikako Sasaki Masaki Satō Akari Takeuchi Akari Uemura

Former Noriko Katō

Up-Front Create is a talent agency headquartered in Tokyo. The list of artists under Up-Front Create includes:

Male groups

Female soloists Chisato Moritaka

Noriko Katō

Shoko Aida (ex-Wink) (ex-Bitter & Sweet) Junko Yanagisawa

Ex-Hello! Project Yuko Nakazawa Kaori Iida Natsumi Abe Kei Yasuda Mari Yaguchi Rika Ishikawa Ai Takahashi Mai Satoda Reina Tanaka Miyabi Natsuyaki Maasa Sudō Yurina Kumai – also Tateoka Maimi Yajima Saki Nakajima Airi Suzuki Erina Mano – also Just Pro Rina Katsuta Riko Yamagishi

Ex-Hello! Pro Egg (ex-Ciao Bella Cinquetti)

Kanami Morozuka

Female (partnership) (Lindberg) – Tinka Tinka Nozomi Tsuji – YU-M Entertainment Miki Fujimoto – Just Pro Haruna Iikubo – Just Pro

Up-Front Trend , formerly Up-Front Style, is a talent agency headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo that specializes in voice actors.

Up-Front Works is a music and video production and sales company that works with artists affiliated with Up-Front Group and its partners. It was created in 2004 by merging the record labels Zetima, Hachama and Piccolo Town. All three continued to operate as Up-Front Works' in-house labels.

The list of artists whose music is released by Up-Front Works includes those under the talent agencies Up-Front Promotion, J.P Room, Up-Front Create, etc.

Up-Front Works operates or operated the following record labels: Zetima

was originally founded in May 1993 as , a joint venture between the Up-Front Group and Warner Music Japan. In April 1998, Up-Front merged One Up with Y.J. Sounds to form Zetima. At the same time, Up-Front ended its distribution deal with Warner Music Japan and switched to Sony Music Entertainment Japan.

Artists Shoko Aida Beyooooonds Camellia Factory Hello! Project shuffle units Akira Inaba Jōjō Gundan Kan Aya Matsuura Chisato Moritaka Morning Musume Takui Nakajima Yuko Nakazawa Ocha Norma Pink Cres. Rosy Chronicle Airi Suzuki

Former artists Buono! Cute Country Girls Magnolia Factory Dream Morning Musume Lovendor Ongaku Gatas Sharam Q

Hachama

has a distribution deal with Pony Canyon.

Artists Angerme Juice=Juice Akari Uemura

Former artists Alma Kaminiito Eric Fukusaki Gatas Brilhantes H.P. Yuubi Matsui Peaberry

Piccolo Town

had a distribution deal with King Records from April 2001 to August 2013, when it switched to Pony Canyon in September 2013.

Artists Bitter & Sweet

Former artists Aa! Berryz Kobo Ciao Bella Cinquetti Gomattō Maki Goto Sayaka Ichii Yui Okada v-u-den ZYX

Rice Music

was originally founded in March 1995 as . After being absorbed into Zetima in 1998, the label was resurrected in September 2004 to focus on kayōkyoku and enka. Like Piccolo Town, Rice Music had a distribution deal with King Records from September 2004 to August 2013, when it switched to Pony Canyon in September 2013.

Artists Hirofumi Banba Takao Horiuchi Akira Kagawa Jirō Sugita Gen Takayama Masayuki Yuhara

Former artists Akira Fuse Sanae Jōnouchi Yuki Maeda Nori Yamaguchi

Up-Front Works (record label)

is Up-Front Group's in-house label that specializes in limited edition releases that are sold either online or exclusively at music chains such as Tower Records. The label previously had distribution deals with Pony Canyon, Daiki Sound, and Universal Music Japan before 2019.

Artists Natsumi Abe Akira Inaba You Kikkawa Hello! Project Kamiishinaka Kana Sayumi Michishige Karin Miyamoto Chisato Moritaka Saki Nakajima Asahi Tasaki Temiyamn Maimi Yajima

Up-Front Indies

is Up-Front Group's indie in-house label founded in May 2019.

Artists Hello Pro Kenshusei

Chichūkai Label

was founded in 2003, with music inspired by those of the countries by the Mediterranean Sea, most prominently France, Italy and Greece, or even cover versions of songs from those countries. The label was handled by Epic Records Japan until December 2009, when Up-Front consolidated it with Zetima.

Former artists Shoko Aida Kaori Iida Akira Inaba

Yasuko Naito Ruca Hidemi Sasaki

Former artists

Affiliated with Up-Front Promotion Michiyo Heike (1997–2001) Morning Musume Asuka Fukuda (1997–1999) Aya Ishiguro (1997–2000) Sayaka Ichii (1998–2000) Yuko Nakazawa (1997–2009) Maki Goto (1999–2007) Kei Yasuda (1998–2003) Natsumi Abe (1997–2004) Nozomi Tsuji (2000–2004) Ai Kago (2000–2004) Kaori Iida (1997–2005) Mari Yaguchi (1998–2005) Rika Ishikawa (2000–2005) Asami Konno (2001–2006) Makoto Ogawa (2001–2006) Hitomi Yoshizawa (2000–2007) Miki Fujimoto (2003–2007) Koharu Kusumi (2005–2009) Eri Kamei (2003–2010) Jun Jun (2007–2010) Lin Lin (2007–2010) Ai Takahashi (2001–2011) Risa Niigaki (2001–2012) Reina Tanaka (2003–2013) Sayumi Michishige (2003–2014) Kanon Suzuki (2011–2016) Haruka Kudo (2011–2017) Aika Mitsui (2007–2018) Riho Sayashi (2011–2018) Haruna Ogata (2014–2018) Haruna Iikubo (2011–2018) Masaki Sato (2011–2021) Chisaki Morito (2017–2022) Kaede Kaga (2016–2022) Mizuki Fukumura (2011–2023) Ayumi Ishida (2011–2024) Erina Ikuta (2011–2025) Chinatsu Miyoshi (1999–2000) T&C Bomber (1999–2000) Atsuko Inaba (1999–2009) Melon Kinenbi (1999–2010) Aya Matsuura (2000–2017) Sheki-Dol (2000–2002) W (2004–2006) Ai Kago (2000–2007) Coconuts Musume (1998–2008) Chelsea Ching (1998–2000) April Barbaran (1998–2000) Danielle DeLaunay (1998–2001) Lehua Sandbo (2000–2002) Mika Todd (1998–2004) Ayaka Kimura (1998–2008) Country Musume (1999–2000) Hiromi Yanagihara (1999) Azusa Kobayashi (1999–2002) Rinne Toda (1999–2002) Asami Kimura (2000–2007) Miuna Saito (2003–2007) Rika Ishii (2001–2002) SINA (2008–2011) Manami Iwashima (2005–2011) Asami Abe (2005–2011) Ai Suma (2005–2011) Nana Nakayama (2005–2009) Shim Min (2003–2006) V-u-den (2004–2008) Yui Okada (2004–2010) Hello! Project Kids (2002–2005) Berryz Kobo (2004–2014) Maiha Ishimura (2002–2005) Momoko Tsugunaga (2002–2017) Cute (2005–2017) Megumi Murakami (2002–2006) Kanna Arihara (2004–2009) Erika Umeda (2002–2009) Mai Hagiwara (2002–2017) Miki Korenaga (2004–2010) Angerme Saki Ogawa (2009–2011) Yuuka Maeda (2009–2011) Fuyuka Kosuga (2011) Kanon Fukuda (2009–2019) Meimi Tamura (2011–2016) Maho Aikawa (2014–2017) Ayaka Wada (2009–2019) Rina Katsuta (2011–2019) Kana Nakanishi (2011–2019) Mizuki Murota (2014–2020) Musubu Funaki (2017–2020) Momona Kasahara (2016–2021) Haruka Oota (2018–2022) Akari Takeuchi (2011–2023) Rikako Sasaki (2014–2024) Ayano Kawamura (2017–2024) Moe Kamikokuryo (2015–2025) Juice=Juice Aina Otsuka (2013) Nanami Yanagawa (2017–2019) Yuka Miyazaki (2013–2019) Karin Miyamoto (2013–2020) Sayuki Takagi (2013–2021) Tomoko Kanazawa (2013–2021) Manaka Inaba (2018–2022) Akari Uemura (2013–2024) Country Girls (2014–2019) Uta Shimamura (2014–2015) Manaka Inaba (2014–2016) Nanami Yanagawa (2015–2019) Risa Yamaki (2014–2019) Mai Ozeki (2014–2019) Musubu Funaki (2015–2019) Chisaki Morito (2014–2019) Magnolia Factory (2015–2020) Rio Fujii (2015–2017) Rena Ogawa (2015–2017) Natsumi Taguchi (2015–2017) Ayaka Hirose (2015–2020) Minami Nomura (2015–2020) Ayano Hamaura (2015–2020) Sakurako Wada (2015–2020) Camellia Factory Risa Ogata (2015–2020) Kiki Asakura (2015–2023) Riko Yamagishi (2015–2023) Yumeno Kishimoto (2015–2023) Kisora Niinuma (2015–2024) Shiori Yagi (2021–2025) Beyooooonds Reina Ichioka (2018–2024) Yuhane Yamazaki (2018–2024) Rika Shimakura (2018–2025) Ocha Norma Sumire Tashiro (2021–2025) Kanami Ishiguri (2021–2025) Sub-units Petitmoni (1999–2013) Tanpopo (1999–2011) Minimoni (2000–2004) Morning Musume Sakuragumi (2003–2004) Morning Musume Otomegumi (2003–2004) Morning Musume Tanjō 10nen Kinentai (2007) Buono! (2007–2017)

Project groups Gomattou (2002) Romans (2003) Tomoiki Ki wo Uetai (2005–2013) Rie Kaneko (2009–2013) Asuna Okai (2009–2010) Mia Sainen (2009–2010) Kaori Sano (2009–2010) Ongaku Gatas (2007–2010) Arisa Noto (2004–2009) Yuri Sawada (2004–2009) Nochiura Natsumi (2004–2005) Ecomoni (2004–2007) Aa! (2003–2009) ZYX (2003–2009) Def.Diva (2005–2007) GAM (2006–2009) Athena & Robikerottsu (2007–2008) Kira Pika (2007) MilkyWay (2008–2009) Sayaka Kitahara (2004–2011) High-King (2008–2015) Shugo Chara Egg! (2008–2010) Irori Maeda (2008–2010) Guardians 4 (2009–2010) Lilpri (2010–2011) Shuffle units Kiiro 5 (2000) Aoiro 7 (2000) Akagumi 4 (2000) 3-nin Matsuri (2001) 7-nin Matsuri (2001) 10-nin Matsuri (2001) Happy 7 (2002) Sexy 8 (2002) Odoru 11 (2002) Salt5 (2003) 7Air (2003) 11Water (2003) H.P. All Stars (2004) Elegies (2005) Sexy Otonajan (2005) Puripuri Pink (2005) Hello! Project Mobekimasu (2011–2013)

Affiliated with Up-Front Works

Hitomi Yoshizawa (2000-2009) Rika Ishikawa (2000-2009) Asami Konno (2001-2011) Makoto Ogawa (2001-2009) Saki Shimizu (2002-2017) Maasa Sudou (2002-2015) Yurina Kumai (2002-2015) Koharu Kusumi (2005-2016)

Up Up Girls Kakko Kari Minami Sengoku (2004-2017) Aika Mitsui (2006-2018) Ships (2008-2009) Alma Kaminiito (2012-2013) Munehiko Ohno (2012-2013) Team Makenki (2014-2018) Ciao Bella Cinquetti (2008-2018)

Affiliated with TNX The company was created by Tsunku in 2006. Later the artists under TNX were collectively known as Nice Girl Project! and were noted for assisting in Nintendo's Rhythm Heaven series.

Nice Girl Myu GTT Club MM Gakuen Gasshoubu Gyaruru Ami Tokito Nice Girl Project! Kenshusei Canary Club Tokky

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