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If you are collecting, or willing to collect Japanese CDs,
you'd better know some things about
you'd better know some things about
CDs pressed/released in Japan
On this blog, there are some tips which may help you getting BETTER ones.
*-* confirming labels "WARNER group" *-*
Knowing some Japanese CD (RECORDS) labels' history will help you check more details about your CDs. It can be a kind of signs of "released/re-released/re-pressed" years.
On this entry, we are going to explain about a short brief about WARNER history (after 80's, since general CDs appeared in the markets).
You may have, or may be going to get CDs with catalog numbers starting from
35XD, 32XD, WPCP, WPCR, AMCY, WMC5 etc.
All of the above catalog numbers are CDs released from WARNER GROUP in Japan (except for WMC5 released after 1991).
Some may think as if a Japanese catalog number can specify which version the CD is, but that's misunderstanding.
For example,
MR. BIG "LEAN INTO IT" album which was released in Japan in 1991 (catalog number : AMCY-236).
We can confirm that this is 1st (the earliest) pressing version by only checking it's OBI-STRIP.
Usually AMCY-236 is introduced as "THE ORIGINAL VERSION" because this title was re-released with a different catalog number later, but most persons don't know that there are some different versions of AMCY-236.
This photo's version is the earliest one, we know.
The label's name on the OBI-STRIP is
"MMG.inc (alphabets)" and WARNER-PIONEER (front:Japanese/rear:alphabets).
There are at least 4 different versions available :
AMCY-236 (MMG/WARNER-PIONEER : 1991)
AMCY-236 (MMG/WARNER MUSIC JAPAN : late 1991 ~ 1992)
AMCY-236 (east west/WARNER MUSIC JAPAN, without IFPI number : 1993)
AMCY-236 (east west/WARNER MUSIC JAPAN, with IFPI number : 1993~2005)
** we'll write about IFPI number on later entry.
This strange phenomenon caused by complicated history of so-called WARNER GROUP in Japan.
Here we write an easy history of WARNER JAPAN.
The earliest name of this company is WARNER BROTHERS PIONEER, started in 1970.
For CD collectors, they were
WARNER-PIONEER
from the first. As the name shows, the investors of the label was WARNER BROTHERS (US) and PIONEER (Japan). WARNER-PIONEER existed until 1989, when PIONEER had withdrawn to start their own label (and to improve their Laser Disc business).
WARNER-PIONEER kept playing the role of distributing until 1991 before WARNER-PIONEER label had changed their name to WARNER MUSIC JAPAN, therefore "WARNER-PIONEER" indication ended in 1991.
** MMG were 3 separated labels until 1990, and was established in 1990 under the banner of WARNER BROTHERS.
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