Yellow Magic Orchestra

Japanese electronic music band

Organization Musical Group Q854590

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of: musical group
Official website: www.ymo.org, ymo40.com, www.110107.com^[25]^[26]^[27]
Short name: YMO^[31]
Official name: イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ, Yellow Magic Orchestra^[29]^[30]

Status and dates

Inception: 1978^[21]

Location

Country: Japan^[6]
Location of formation: Tokyo^[22]

Relations

Has part(s): Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi^[18]^[19]^[20]

More facts +13

Notable work: Rydeen, Kimi ni, Mune Kyun., Solid State Survivor, 増殖 X∞Multiplies, Naughty Boys^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Genre: synth-pop, J-pop, avant-garde music, exotica, electro, electronic rock^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]
Country of origin: Japan^[17]
Discography: Yellow Magic Orchestra discography^[16]
Language used: Japanese^[35]
Member category: Category:Yellow Magic Orchestra members
Member count: +3^[34]
Pseudonym: トリオ・ザ・テクノ, スケッチ・ショウ＋坂本龍一^[23]^[24]
Record label: Alfa Records, EMI Music Japan, Sony Music Entertainment Japan^[13]^[14]^[15]
Represented by: Wikidata item^[32]
Social media followers: 37k (10k–42k, n=11)
Start of work period: 1977^[33]
Topic has template: Template:Yellow Magic Orchestra^[28]

🏷️ Also known as

en YMO en Yellow Magic Orchestra de YMO fa یلو مجیک ارکسترا id YMO ja イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ ja トリオ・ザ・テクノ ja Yellow Magic Orchestra ja Y.M.O. ja YMO ja イエローマジックオーケストラ ko 옐로 매직 오케스트라 sv Haruomi Hosono sv Ryuichi Sakamoto sv YMO sv Yukihiro Takahashi th Yellow Magic Orchestra th เยลโล แมจิก ออร์เคสตรา zh Yellow Magic Orchestra zh YMO

🔖 Identifiers · 84

ISNI: 0000000121840250
VIAF cluster ID: 150267542, 168491665
Library of Congress Authorities ID: n91075395
GND ID: 10278254-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Yellow Magic Orchestra in 2008.jpg ↗
Album of the Year artist ID: 7138
AllMusic artist ID: mn0000683750
Allcinema person ID: 20721
Amazon Music artist ID: B0053R6JMS
Amazon author ID: B000AQ1UF8
Anime News Network person ID: 129157
Apple Music artist ID: 261296316

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BBC Things ID: 7dcccd7d-a072-477d-9eaf-9a4d06e0f45a
BIBSYS ID: 2097178
BabelNet ID: 01100952n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 13955765w
Billboard artist ID: yellow-magic-orchestra
Bugs! artist ID: 34411
Canadiana Name Authority ID: ncf11126256
CiNii Research ID: 1140000791851619712
DBC author ID: 87097993184866
Daum Encyclopedia ID: 33XXXX506064
Deezer artist ID: 5088
Described at URL: www.tekstowo.pl
Discogs artist ID: 22061
Douban musician ID: 105737
Douban personage ID: 35848592
Empik author ID: yellow+magic+orchestra
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID: yellow_magic_orchestra
Europeana entity: agent/base/147711
FAST ID: 1500665
FES digital collections entity ID: 434822
Facebook username: YMOofficial
Fandom article ID: jpop:Yellow_Magic_Orchestra
Freebase ID: /m/019bmw
Genius artist ID: Yellow-magic-orchestra
Google News topics ID: CAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNREU1WW0xM0VnSnFZU2dBUAE
Google Play Music artist ID (former scheme): A5ap3naphol25nthp5ipwarxmkq
IMDb ID: nm3576047
J9U entity ID: 987010859819005171
Jaxsta profile ID: 860739f0-d21a-45bc-9f57-b523437aad5a
KINENOTE person ID: 218977
KKBOX artist ID: XXswvIqJEDdsIIn0F0l-U08J
Last.fm ID: Yellow+Magic+Orchestra
Laut.de artist ID: Yellow-Magic-Orchestra
Line Music artist ID: mi0000000000b61dcd
LyricsTranslate ID: yellow-magic-orchestra-lyrics.html
Melon artist ID: 104288
Mora Artist ID: 443857
MusicBrainz artist ID: ac5af671-1df0-4312-8b7b-e61992ecc883
Musixmatch artist ID: Yellow-Magic-Orchestra
Muziekweb performer ID: M00000093548
Myspace ID: hasymo
NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA1718427X
NDL Authority ID: 01074992
NME artist ID: yellow-magic-orchestra
Namuwiki ID: 옐로 매직 오케스트라
Naver VIBE artist ID: 3565
NicoNicoPedia word article ID: イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID: YellowMagicOrchestra
Plus Music artist ID: 1066006
Qobuz artist ID: yellow-magic-orchestra
Quora topic ID: Yellow-Magic-Orchestra
RILM ID: 256572
Rate Your Music artist ID: yellow_magic_orchestra
SecondHandSongs artist ID: 1778
Shazam artist ID: 5246351
Songkick artist ID: 288701
SoundHound artist ID: 200007631923537702
Spotify artist ID: 2JIf5JxI3ypOSfrfNIIMQE, 4a57NWQ2gDab8cSx2yDONf
Supraphonline artist ID: 303084
Tidal artist ID: 4002015
Treccani ID: yellow-magic-orchestra
TuneIn artist ID: m454222
Uta-Net artist ID: 1138
VGMdb artist ID: 4337
WhoSampled artist ID: Yellow-Magic-Orchestra
WorldCat Entities ID: E39QH7Jmq6rk7dJryQF74jMyM6
X (Twitter) username: ymo
Yandex Music artist ID: 1602009
YesAsia author ID: 1507897
YouTube channel ID: UCS9G-CZZqYeftTs6EEPBfdg
YouTube playlist ID: PLdSYWhfMihCclLAgTlpEeWk6LagYlPTby
Zhihu topic ID: 20775578

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🔗 Connections

Mb:performer of 33

Solid State Survivor, Yellow Magic Orchestra, After Service, BGM, EUYMO – Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London + Gijón 2008, Faker Holic, Kimi ni, Mune Kyun., Kyoretsu Na Rhythm +25 more

Genre 6

J-pop, synth-pop, electronic rock, electro, avant-garde music, exotica

Mb:recording contract 4

Commmons, Commmons, Eastworld, Eastworld

Mb:tribute 4

Tribute to YMO, Tribute to YMO, Yellow Fever!, Yellow Fever!

Has part(s) 3

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi

← Mb:member of band 3

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi

← Performer 3

Behind the Mask, Solid State Survivor, Yellow Magic Orchestra

Record label 2

Sony Music Entertainment Japan, EMI Music Japan

Country 1

Japan

Country of origin 1

Japan

Instance of 1

musical group

Language used 1

Japanese

Location of formation 1

Tokyo

Notable work 1

Solid State Survivor

Topic has template 1

Template:Yellow Magic Orchestra

← Mb:instrumental supporting musician 1

Hideki Matsutake

← Template has topic 1

Template:Yellow Magic Orchestra

← Used by 1

Roland TR-808

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

9d ago · Nicereddy · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Tidal artist ID → 4002015

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #63220: Import Tidal artist ID from MusicBrainz, also matching on name. Part1.: import Tidal artist ID (P4576) f"
19w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗

FES digital collections entity ID → 434822

"Created claim: FES digital collections entity ID: 434822, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782462304762"
22w ago · CoffeeEngineer · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Official website → http://www.ymo.org/, http://ymo40.com/, https://www.110107.com/s/oto/page/YMO40?ima=0855

Member count → 3 man

Location of formation → Tokyo

Represented by → Wikidata item

+ 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"Changed claim: Official website: http://ymo40.com/"

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