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Tak Matsumoto

Tak Matsumoto is credited on 314 releases across 113 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1984–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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314

Pressings credited

113

Albums

5

Decades active

4

In collections

Biography

Takahiro Matsumoto (松本 孝弘, Matsumoto Takahiro; born March 27, 1961, in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist and main composer of the rock duo B'z, the best-selling music act in their native Japan by certifications. He also has a successful solo career where, in addition to winning several Japan Gold Disc Awards, he won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album for Take Your Pick (2010), which he made in collaboration with Larry Carlton. Matsumoto is only the fifth guitarist in the world to have his own Gibson signature model guitar.

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Credited work

314 releases · 113 albums · active 1984–2026

  • Performance · 599
  • Other credits · 228
  • Production · 179

Studios: Birdman West · Studio Birdman · Gardenia Studio · Arby69

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • B'z
  • Takahiro Matsumoto
  • Babymetal
  • Tak Matsumoto Group
  • TM Network
  • Mari Hamada (2)
  • TMG
  • KAT-TUN

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