Idol Street | |
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Parent company | Avex Group Holdings |
Founded | October 2, 2010 |
Founder | Tatsuo Higuchi (supervising producer) [1] |
Genre | J-pop (idols) |
Country of origin | Japan |
Location | Tokyo |
Official website | idolstreet |
Idol Street (stylized as iDOL Street) is a Japanese record label and music project specializing in idols. [2] [3] [4]
It was launched by Avex on October 2, 2010, as a dedicated idol record label. [5] The first artist on the label was the idol group Super Girls, formed in June 2010. [4] [5] As of March 2015, four girl groups have debuted on the label: Super Girls, Cheeky Parade (Until Summer 2018), GEM (Until Spring 2018), and The World Standard. [6] [7] [8] [9]
The project includes 15 members: 11 members of Super Girls and 4 members of The World Standard.
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