RS Public Company Limited is a Thai

Thailand

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 entertainment company. It has a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

,produces programming for television, makes films, publishes magazines and promotes concerts. In thailand

History

Company chairman Kriengkai Chetchotisak started in business in 1976, founding Rose Sound Co. Ltd., which involved jukebox

Jukebox

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es and cassette-tape

Compact Cassette

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 recording.

In 1982, R.S. Sound Co. Ltd. was established, with Kriengkai deciding to target the teenage demographic profile

Demographic profile

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. The first band signed to the fledgling record label was Intanin, followed by Kiriboon, Fruity, Sixth Sense, Brandy and Rainbow.

By 1992, the company had expanded its scope to include film and television series production and radio programming.

In May 2003, the company was listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand

Stock Exchange of Thailand

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 as R.S. Promotion Public Company Limited.

In 2006, the company changed its name from R.S. Promotion to RS Public Company Limited and underwent rebranding in 2007 to identify itself as a broader media company rather than just a record label.

RS Music

There are seven recording labels under RS Music, covering Thai pop (string) and Thai country music (luk thung

Luk thung

Luk Thung refers to the most popular form of a style of music found in Thailand. The term is short for pleng luk thung .Luk Thung songs typically reflect the hardship of everyday life among the rural poor. Tempos tend to be slow, and singers use an expressive singing style with a lot of vibrato...

) as well as rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, hip hop

Hip hop

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, rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

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 and easy listening

Easy listening

Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...

. The labels are Aborigins, Melodiga, Genome Record, No mute, Big Blue Record, Kamikaze and R-siam.

Artists

Among the artists with RS Music are:

• Dan and Beam (formerly D2B
  D2B (group)
  D2B was a Thai boy band from the Thai record label, RS promotion. The name "D2B" was created from the first letters of the members' nicknames, Dan, Big, and Beam, in which one name started with a "D" and 2 names started with a "B". "D2B" was one of the hottest boy bands in Thailand...
  
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• Film Rattapoom
• Lydia
• I..nam
• Girly Berry
• Four-Mod
  Four-Mod
  Four-Mod is a Thai pop duo consisting of two girls, Four and Mod, formed in 2005.In 2004, Four Mod released their debut single/song "Hai Jai Pen Tur", which stayed at number one for several weeks, ensuring their debut success. Since then, they have been releasing a string of consecutive number one...
  
  
• Joni Anwar
  Joni Anwar
  Joni Anwar, also known as Joni Raptor is a Thai pop singer and actor. He was born in Bangkok. Thailand and has Indonesian-Scottish ancestry...
  
  
• Sornram Teppitak
  Sornram Teppitak
  Sornram Teppitak is a Thai actor and Thai pop singer. He has appeared in several notable lakorns, including: Dao pra sook with Suvanant Kongying which he played the role of Phak. He began acting at an adolescent age. His films include Garuda and First Flight. He is the highest paid Thai actor...
  
  
• Ponglang Sa-on
  Pong lang sa on
  Pong Lang Sa On is a band from Thailand, founded in 2005. Their career was helped, by winning a talent contest on TV, in Thailand.Their style of music can be referred to, as folk music from Thailand, with a strong influence of pop and rock....
  
  
• Parn
• Lao Loam
• Nice 2Meet U
• FFK
  Faye Fang Keaw
  FFK is a Thai pop trio consisting of Faye, Fang and Kaew formed in 2007.In 2007, FFK released their debut single "Na Krub". Since then, they have been releasing a string of hits songs that have topped the Thai charts. Faye also formed a group called Seven Days with fellow label mates Jinny, Pim,...
  
  
• Gear Knight
• Hyper
• Neko Jump
  Neko Jump
  Neko Jump is a Thai pop duo, composed of twin sisters Warattha and Charattha Imraporn - History :When Warattha Imraporn and Charattha Imraporn were in primary school they were in singing and dancing classes. Impressing their teacher, they joined many more contests and continued to practice singing...
  
  
• K-OTIC
  K-Otic
  K-Otic, is a Thai pop boy band consisting of five members; two of which are Thai-Japanese mixed and one who is Korean. The band debuted with the single, "Ya Wai Chai" in March 2007, releasing the premier album later in October.-Members:...
  
  
• KamiKaze
  Kamikaze (record label)
  Kamikaze is a record label based in Thailand. It was formed in early 2007 by Sutipong Wattanajung under RS Entertainment allowing teenagers aged between 14 and 22 years to publish their songs. One of the first artists of this record label was Four-Mod. Eversince Kamikaze debuted the first album '...
  
  
• Prik Thai
• Blackvanilla
• Alize'
• JNE
• 7days (Project on Kamikaze with Faye, Jinny, Pim, Jam, Waii, Meen and Mila)
• Jack
• 3.2.1
• Kat-Pat
• Kiss Me Five
• X-I-S
• Fact U
• Rookie BB
• P.O.I
• Jeasmine
• Etc.

RS Film

RS Film is the company's film-production and distribution arm. Associated production marques include Avant and Film Surf. In addition to making Thai films

Cinema of Thailand

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, the company also distributes for films for exhibition in Thailand. Films produced by the company include:

• Ahingsa-Jikko mee gam
  Ahingsa-Jikko mee gam
  Ahingsa-Jikko mee gam is a 2005 Thai karmic-crime-comedy-drama written and directed by Kittikorn Kiasirikun .-Plot:Ahingsa is a young man who's haunted by his karma, which takes the form of a mysterious red-haired man who dishes out abuse when Ahingsa runs afoul of morality...
  
  
• Bangkok Loco
  Bangkok Loco
  Bangkok Loco is a 2004 Thai comedy-musical-fantasy film directed by Pornchai Hongrattanaporn, written by Sompope Vejchapipat and starring Krissada Terrence. The story involves a gifted young rock drummer named Bay who commits a grisly murder and becomes a fugitive from the law...
  
  
• Killer Tattoo
  Killer Tattoo
  Killer Tattoo is a 2001 Thai action-comedy film written and directed by Yuthlert Sippapak...
  
  
• Noodle Boxer
• Ruk Jung
  Ruk jung
  Ruk Jung is a 2006 Thai romantic-comedy film directed by Haeman Chatemee and starring "Film" Ratchaphoom Tokongsup and Paula Taylor.- Plot :...
  
  
• The Victim
  The Victim (2006 film)
  The Victim is a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film written and directed by Monthon Arayangkoon. The film stars Pitchannart Sakakorn as a struggling young actress who takes a job working for the police department, re-enacting crime scenes, but starts to have frightening experiences when she takes on...
  
  

RS Publishing

The company's publishing arm releases such titles as the Dara Daily Magazine.

RS Sports

An organizer and broadcaster of sporting events, the company has been selected as the official broadcaster of FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

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tournaments in Thailand in 2010 and 2014.

External links

• RS Public Company Limited
  • (Thai) RS Music
  • RS Film
  • (Thai) Dara Daily
  • RS Idream