Max Matsuura

Exile has released their singles and albums under Avex Group's label Rhythm Zone. Hiro and Avex's president Max Matsuura came from the same high school. In November 2003, Exile remade Zoo's hit single "Choo Choo Train", which became a...

In this article: Exile, Avex Group, Zoo, Japan, Japan Record Awards, DVD, Street Fighter IV, and Recording Industry Association of Japan

...future producer, Max Matsuura, through a friend. After hearing Hamasaki sing karaoke, Matsuura offered her a recording deal, but Hamasaki suspected ulterior motives and turned the offer down. He persisted and succeeded in recruiting her for...

In this article: Ayumi Hamasaki, Oricon, Avex, My Story, Secret, Rainbow, Japan, Loveppears, and Duty

...EMI, released a greatest hits compilation, Original Tracks Vol.1 (1996). MAX continued to release their own material after the official disbandment of the Super Monkeys. However, they continued to perform with Amuro under the Super Monkeys...

In this article: Super Monkey's, Namie Amuro, Anna Makino, Okinawa Actors School, Avex Trax, Hisako Arakaki, Body Feels Exit, Oricon, and Minako Ameku

...number-eight position and charting for 25 weeks on the Oricon chart. The other four members of the Super Monkey's formed their own group, MAX , under the Avex Trax label. Amuro released two more solo singles under Toshiba-EMI before moving...

In this article: Namie Amuro, Best Fiction, Japan, Tetsuya Komuro, R&B, Oricon, Avex Trax, Super Monkey's, Kohaku Uta Gassen, and Dallas Austin

...sublabel. Late in 2007, after her sudden Hello! Project graduation, rumors aroused the very next day stating that Avex's CEO, Max Matsuura, had shown interest in signing Goto in for Avex. During Goto's brother trial, she disappeared from...

In this article: Avex, Maki Goto, Morning Musume, Rhythm Zone, Gomattou, Saving All My Love for You, J-Wave, Hitomi Kanehara, Petitmoni, and Kumi Koda

...Love is power: cheer song for the Yomiuri Giants) - #10 The group formed from the Dream 2000 audition, produced by Max Matsuura (now president of Avex group holdings). Dream was responsible for the song "My Will," the first ending...

In this article: DRM, InuYasha, Avex Trax, Morning Musume, Yu Hasebe, Kagome, Kikyo, and Ongaku Gatas

...former-idol Ami Suzuki performing live at the annual festival of their school, Nihon University. He subsequently signed her to the Avex label. But a feud between him {Matsuura} and co-founder Tom Yoda almost ruined the group. It came to an...

In this article: Avex Group, Japan, Ai Otsuka, Ami Suzuki, Hollywood Records, Tokyo, Nihon University, and Girl Next Door

...the rivalry existed. It should be noted that Avex President Max Matsuura who ultimately signed Ami, ending her blacklisting, is also Ayumi Hamasaki's friend and manager, so the rivalry seems to be a friendly one. At the release of her...

In this article: Ami Suzuki, Avex, Oricon, Sony, Delightful, Around the World, Little Crystal, and DVD

And additional performances not found on the CD version. In 1997, with the success of the "J-POP NIGHT" events at Velfarre", Avex released "VELFARRE J-POP NIGHT presents DANCE with you" which featured MAX, SPEED, D&D and many others...

In this article: Velfarre, Avex, Tokyo, Johan Gielen, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ayumi Hamasaki, and Komuro Tetsuya