Artist of Stardom Championship
The Artist of Stardom Championship is a professional wrestling six-woman tag team championship owned by World Wonder Ring Stardom. The title was first announced during Stardom's year-end event on December 24, 2012, and two days later its name was revealed as the "Artist of Stardom Championship", with a four-team one night single-elimination tournament announced to determine the inaugural champions. The current champions are H.A.T.E., who are in their first reign as a team, but third for Konami, first for Rina and fifth for Fukigen individually.
Title history
Belt design
On January 14, 2013, Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu defeated Team Shimmer in the finals of the tournament to become the inaugural champions.The championship belts were introduced on February 6, 2013, when they arrived to Stardom's office from their American maker "Top Rope Belts". The belts are rare among all other tag team championship belts in that they are all of different color; one is blue, one orange and one pink. There is no rule for the belt color distribution into the teams. Each title holder gets to choose her own belt colour freely. The biggest star-shaped plate is inscribed with "Three stars make the highest magic", while the three smaller star plates feature the words "high, art, bonds". These inscriptions depict the strong unity of the three-woman tag team which holds the championship.
April 15, 2017 tournament
On April 9, 2017, the title was vacated after Momo Watanabe was unable to perform due to an injury. On April 15, a one-day, four-team tournament took place to crown a new champion. The winners were Queen's Quest.Reigns
As of ,, there have been a total of 35 reigns shared between 33 teams composed of 54 individual champions and five vacancies. The inaugural championship team was Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu. The teams Stars and Queen's Quest are tied with most reigns at two, while individually, Shirai has the most reigns at six. As a team, Cosmic Angels has the longest reign at 291 days, while AZM's, HZK's, and Shirai's second reign is the shortest at 13 days. Kyoko Kimura is the oldest champion at 39 years old, while AZM is the youngest at 14 years old.Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been thirty reigns shared among twenty-eight teams and forty-nine wrestlers.