Empire has been played on NTS shows including Henry Rollins, with Hot Seat first played on 12 July 2016.

There are (or were) at least 14 bands called Empire including a podcast produced by the UK film magazine Empire.

1) EMPiRE, were a Japanese female idol group which debuted in August of 2017 and disbanded 2nd June 2022. They were launched as a joint project between the record label avex and Watanabe Junnosuke's agency, WACK, going by the name "Project aW" before debut. The founding members were YUKA EMPiRE, MiDORiKO EMPiRE, MAYU EMPiRE, YU-Ki EMPiRE, and YUiNA EMPiRE. They debuted on the album WACK & SCRAMBLES…