, 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 Soko 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.