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Johnny & Associates facts for kids
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Native name
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株式会社ジャニーズ事務所
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| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | June 1962 |
| Founder | Johnny Kitagawa |
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| Products | Entertainment |
| Services | Entertainment |
| Subsidiaries | Johnny's Entertainment J Storm J-One Records |
Johnny & Associates is a Japanese talent agency, formed by Johnny Kitagawa in 1962, which trains and promotes groups of male entertainers known as Johnny's.
In 1962, Kitagawa launched his first group, Johnnys. Six years later, Four Leaves, a boy band created by the agency, became successful. Since then Kitagawa has formed a number of successful acts, such as solo artist Masahiko Kondo, whose song won the 1987 Japan Record Award, and Hikaru Genji, the first Johnny group with three singles on the Japanese Oricon yearly chart in 1988.
SMAP debuted in 1991, hosting television and radio shows, appearing in commercials and acting on television and film. The group's 2003 single, Template:"A Flower Unlike Any Other in the World", sold over 2.57 million copies and became the ninth-bestselling single in Japan. In 1997 the agency founded a record label, Johnny's Entertainment.
In 2007, temporary Johnny's Jr. group, Hey! Say! 7, broke a record as the youngest male group to ever top Oricon charts, with an average age of 14.8 years. Later that year, Hey! Say! JUMP broke a record as the largest group to debut in Johnny's history, with ten members. On November 19, 2010, Masahiko Kondo received the Best Vocal Performance award at the 52nd Japan Record Awards.
Johnny & Associates trainees are known as Johnny's Jr. Juniors perform their songs and those by established artists on variety shows, such as The Shōnen Club, and are backup dancers for the agency's established groups.
On September 18, 2011, Kitagawa received Guinness World Record awards for the most number-one singles (232) and the most concerts (8,419 from 1974 to 2010) produced by an individual. His shows have been attended by an estimated 48,234,550 people.
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Headquarters in Minato, Tokyo (1998–2018)
See also
In Spanish: Johnny & Associates para niños