There are (or were) at least 14 bands called Empire including a podcast produced by the UK film magazine Empire.
1) EMPiRE, are a Japanese female idol group which debuted in August of 2017. 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 WORKS on 6 December with the song EMPiRE is COMiNG.
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!