Brand overview: Pioneer DJ

Pioneer DJ

Pioneer DJ started of as a branch of Pioneer Electronics coorporation (started in 1938) by Nozomu Matsumoto in Japan. The first ever Pioneer product was a dynamic loudspeaker for home use. Pioneer is the inventor of the CD player for car use, the XGA plasma screen, Karaoke products and the GPS navigation system for use in cars.

1975 Pioneer introduces the firstr car stereo with cassette player
1984 Pioneer was first to introduce a car stereo with CD player
1994 Pioneer DJ department started by introducing the CDJ-500 series players and DJM-500 mixer shortly later
1997 Pioneer launches the firs GPS navigation system for use in cars
2001 Launch of the Pioneer CDJ-1000 DJ CD player
2004 Pioneer launches the DVJ-X1, a DVD player DJs can use like a CDJ
2009 Launch of the CDJ-2000/900 and Rekordbox software version 1
2015 Company split off from Pioneer Electronics and Pioneer DJ turned into a separate company
2020 Launch of CDJ-3000 and Rekordbox 6