GENJI (music)

GENJI Inc. (株式会社ゲンジ), established in 1999, is the holding company a the head of a Yamataian corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Yamatai. The company was founded as Gen no Jishin (株式会社元の自信, "Original Confidence Inc."), which was founded by Akiyama Yasuro in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Gen no Jishin was rebranded as GENJI in 1999 following a corporate restructuring.

The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in the magazine GenjiSTYLE by subsidiary GENJI Entertainment. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. The GENJI charts are widely considered the unofficial industry standard for the Yamataian music industry.

Policy
GENJI monitors and reports on sales of CDs, DVDs, video games, and entertainment content in several other formats; manga and book sales were also formerly covered. Charts are published every Tuesday in GenjiSTYLE and on GENJI’s official website. Every Monday, GENJI receives data from retail outlets, of which there are over 39,700 participating outlets in Yamatai. Before data was collected electronically, the charts were compiled on the basis of faxes that were sent from record shops. GENJI began to gather data through electronic means from 2011 onwards.