"Genzo? What kind of company is that? I've never heard of it."
When the president of Being, a music production company in Minato City, heard the name in the newspaper, he looked a little confused.
Today, the company's talent scout came to report that the young musician Seiichiro Kuribayashi who had previously negotiated with him rejected the company's recruitment. During the previous negotiation, Seiichiro Kuribayashi showed a certain interest in being, and originally thought he had a good chance of winning.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Yaojin showed up halfway and signed Seiichiro Kuribayashi away.
Nagato Daiko heard the song demo of Seiichiro Kuribayashi brought back by a talent scout, and he admired his talent. The company now has composer Oda Tetsuro, who was recruited as a veteran in the early days of its own business, and he is deeply trusted by Nagato Daiko.
.But there is no reason to just rely on the same tree. It is urgent to expand the number of composers. Finally, I found a composer I like, and I wanted to take him under my wing...
If someone was snatched away by some big company, that's another matter. However, it was an unknown production company that signed Seiichiro Kuribayashi.
While Nagato Daiyuki was confused, he also felt like he had been shot coldly.
Nagato Daiyuki was born in Kansai, and later came to Tokyo to study at Aoyama Gakuin University. When he was a student, it happened to be the period when groupsounds were emerging. He also formed a band and performed in tea restaurants in Tokyo. Speaking of which, Aoyama Gakuin University
The probability of universities producing musicians and actors is really frighteningly high.
There is a reason for this, but the reason behind it is probably because this school has a relaxed academic style, has many children who have returned from overseas, has excellent music club capabilities, and is a pioneer in accepting foreign culture. As a top private university, there are not a few students from well-off families.
Therefore, it has become a fertile ground for musicians to grow.
After graduating from college, I went home to inherit the family business and study business, but in the end I decided to pursue music as my lifelong career.
In 1978, after working around and accumulating experience, Nagato Daiko found a sponsorship and established his own music production company being. He was just thirty years old that year. There was no such person in the industry for the newly established being.
I have worked a lot as an assistant, producing songs for some bands and idols, and the companies provide their own lyrics, music, and arrangement. The company is like a parts assembly factory.
You couldn't earn anything you could put on the table by doing odd jobs, so for seven years, the company didn't gain a reputation in the industry. Until G received an order from CBS and Sony to be a producer for a band called Tube.
This time it was different. Instead of assembling parts, the songwriting and arrangement were given to being. Even the band's route was decided by Daiko Nagato.
1985 was the year that Shinichi Iwahashi came to Tokyo.
It was a carnival year for idols, and it was also a carnival year for idol bands. When Tube debuted, it was positioned as an idol band, and the average age of its members was only nineteen. Nagato Daiko served as the producer and produced two singles for Tube, but the results
Not great. When preparing for the third single, Nagato Daiyuki decided to treat this single as a last ditch effort. If it couldn't make a splash again, he would give up the band and repay CBS and Sony, saying that they didn't
commercial value.
As a result, this single sold 300,000 copies, which is a very impressive result now that the record market is shrinking. Tube became a new idol band, and being finally had a name in the industry.
Although it is far from being a reputable company, it is still much better than a company like Genzo that I have never heard of and has no works.
The rabbit that was about to arrive was snatched away by an eagle that suddenly appeared, and Nagato was depressed.
After asking around, I finally found out where Genzo came from. It turned out to be a production company established by the previous planner after he became independent from the agency.
All the underground bands that have performed on stage before, except for his own DreamseTrue, have been signed to record companies. Therefore, Shinichi Iwahashi is regarded as a talent by some underground musicians and has a pretty good reputation. Seiichiro Kuribayashi is also in the underground music circle.
It is also unknown whether he will be summoned by the charm of Shinji Iwahashi.
Knowing the ins and outs of the matter, Nagato Daiyuki was still a little depressed, but now that it was over, he had to give up.
Not to mention whether a new composer who has not been tested by the market is worth the trouble of poaching him. If it is due to conditions, he may still give it a try. Personal charisma is... unexplainable.
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On the one hand, Nagato Daiyuki felt sorry for missing Seiichiro Kuribayashi. By the way, he secretly wondered what actions Shinichi Iwahashi would take after establishing this music company. Anyway, they are both music production companies. Although they are very different at this stage, this
The gap is not insurmountable, and it is not an exaggeration to say that genzo is a potential rival of being.
In particular, Shinichi Iwahashi is well-known, so what he will do next is both guarding and exciting.
On the other side, Seiichiro Kuribayashi, who was pitied by Nagato Daiyuki, also officially signed a contract with Genzo and became Genzo's exclusive composer.
Although Seiichiro Kuribayashi trusts Shinichi Iwahashi, he must also be responsible for his own life and cannot be entrusted with full power. Therefore, when signing the contract, he hopes to sign a short-term contract.
If you are a new person signed by a firm, this condition will naturally be ng.
For artists, signing a one-time five-year contract after their debut is a very basic operation. Because it costs money to train a new person. Starting from scratch, the investment in the middle is very large. If the contract period is too short, the new person will have to be cultivated just after training.
If it's better to just leave after the appointment is made, the company will gain more than it loses, so naturally it won't work.
Of course, in Japan, if you try to fly with your wings, there is a high probability that your wings will be broken off by the office and you will be unable to get up. Unless you get close to some big boss, you can't even think about it.
For more domineering firms, there will be a clause in the contract when signing, that is, even if the contract is terminated, they will not appear in the four major civil institutions for one to two years. This is the so-called anti-competition contract.
If he offended the original firm instead of just getting together and breaking up, and the other party happens to be powerful, even if the two-year period has passed, the ban may be continued. Five years is not a dream.
In the entertainment industry, which is changing so quickly, if you don't appear on TV for two years, let alone five years, you will basically be in the cold.
It’s not that Japanese artists are loyal to the agency and have a contractual spirit, so they don’t do unethical things like filing breach of contract lawsuits as soon as they become famous. It’s because the power of the agency is greater than anything else, and a small arm can’t twist a thigh.
When signing an artist, you have to have a fixed contract, but when signing a composer, it doesn't hurt to be more relaxed. Because composers don't really need this kind of training cost, they are more like being recruited as employees, but even if they are recruiting employees, no one likes short-term employees.
Therefore, if it were to be signed once a year, it would be a big disadvantage for Shinichi Iwahashi.
However, there is no point in getting unhappy with the contract. Shinichi Iwahashi thought about it and gave Seiichiro Kuribayashi a somewhat special contract.
Within one year, Seiichiro Kuribayashi can debut in the industry as a composer. If this is achieved, the contract will be automatically renewed for another year at the annual settlement of the next year.
After that, on the premise that he continues to publish works every year, the contract will be renewed in this way until five years.
But during this period, the terms of treatment were based on the contents of the first contract.
After five years of this, Genzo has the first right to renew the contract. If he continues to stay in the company, he will be replaced with a new contract based on his performance at that time.
However, if Seiichiro Kuribayashi cannot publish a work for two consecutive years, the contract will be terminated at the annual settlement of the next year.
In this way, Seiichiro Kuribayashi did not have to worry about being tied to this tree with an uncertain future. Shinichi Iwahashi actually had nothing to lose, but he used this method to reassure Seiichiro Kuribayashi.
Of course, in the past two years, Seiichiro Kuribayashi also had a target of how many songs he would deliver every month, and after the songs were written, Shinichi Iwahashi's genzo had the right of first refusal.
Because it is not a buyout, the remuneration for buying music will not be too high during the new artist contract stage. However, after the music is put into storage and produced, no matter who sings it, Seiichiro Kuribayashi will receive the royalties.
Japan’s copyright system makes it difficult to buy out the copyright of lyrics and music in one go, even for unknown newcomers.
If there is a buyout situation, it is either ghostwriting for others, which is relatively easy to happen in singing, or there is a more special situation of children's songs. The audience of children's songs is special, so there will be a situation in terms of royalties payment.
A situation where sex pays a buyout royalty.
Children's songs rarely become hits, but when they do, they will show a monster-level terrifying trend.
There is a tragic chestnut, which is the best-selling single in the history of Japanese music, a children's song called "およげたいやきくん" (Let's swim! Taiyaki-kun).
This song has sold a total of more than 4.5 million copies, ranking first in single sales history. However, because the copyright was bought out, the huge royalties have nothing to do with Zimen Zhenren's penny.
The record company that published his single built a building based on the song, and he only got one million yen from the beginning to the end.
It can be called the strongest and most unlucky Yifawu in history.
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This method of signing the contract was proposed by Shin Iwahashi in one word. This proposal obviously won the hearts of Seiichiro Kuribayashi and made even his last worries disappear.
Of course, you need to put it into the contract, draw up a formal contract, pick out the potentially controversial clauses, and then sign it.
Genzo does not have its own legal department. Masato Nakamura, Miwa Yoshida, or Abnormal, although they follow Shinichi Iwahashi, they have not signed such a contract.
Iwahashi Shinichi originally planned to go to the legal affairs department of Watanabe Mayumi's office and ask for help in drawing up a contract, as he had done before, but when he received a postcard, he changed his mind.
That postcard was sent to the apartment he had recently moved to. Iwahashi Shinichi started a production company not long after moving. The start-up period was a busy time, and he only went home two or three times a week.
Or if I had known that I would soon have to live a life of zero and seven in the entrepreneurial period, I would have just stayed in Koenji and not moved... How could that work?
The improvement in the quality of life is the most clearly felt reward for himself. Even if he can only go back for half an hour a week, he still wants to stay quietly in a clean house with a bed for a while.
For Shinichi Iwahashi, his current apartment is his first real home.
A moment of peace is worth a thousand dollars.
Because he didn't go home often, and because he didn't have the habit of checking his mailbox, this postcard was discovered by Shinichi Iwahashi almost a month after it was sent.
It was sent by my cheap sister, Asako Iwahashi.
When he moved before, Iwahashi Shinichi sent her a moving postcard. At that time, he just thought it would be inappropriate not to notify her, but he forgot about it and never contacted her anyway.
Unexpectedly, I would receive a postcard from her in return.
Although there was nothing important written on it, it was just a general expression that he already knew it, but for Shinichi Iwahashi, the outline of the sister who existed in his memory became a little clearer because of this postcard.
a little.
After receiving the moving postcard, I would write a reply to my brother. This is not something I have to write, and at least it proves that the relationship between the two siblings is not hostile.
However, Iwahashi Asako, who was also in Tokyo, had never contacted Iwahashi Shinichi.
It seemed that she would never take a step towards Iwahashi Shinichi, but when Iwahashi Shinichi waved to her, she would wave to him like she does now.
Iwahashi Shinichi seemed to sense a little bit of this sister's wonderful way of getting along with people, and then became curious about her.
This time he was going to draw up a contract, and he thought he might be able to take this opportunity to meet her.
Iwahashi Asako's office is two blocks away from Ginza Main Street, on the sixth floor of a small office building. After knocking on the door, someone opened the door for him immediately.
Shinichi Iwahashi said that he came to see lawyer Iwahashi, "I have already made a call before."
The young female clerk who opened the door listened and nodded in confirmation, "Yes, please." She guided him to the empty seat next to him and sat down.
Even if she is a young female employee, she must be several years older than Shinichi Iwahashi.
The sudden visit was not a customer with an appointment. Iwahashi Asako couldn't come to see him right away and could only wait slowly. Iwahashi Shinichi already knew about it when he called just now, so there was no rush.
He called Iwahashi Asako and told her that he would visit her later. Iwahashi Asako didn't seem surprised at all when she received his call.
Iwahashi Shinichi said that he had a contract and wanted to ask her for help. After hearing this, Iwahashi Chaozi paused, then told him that he had half an hour to meet between 4:00 and 4:30 in the afternoon, and then hung up the phone.
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From the moment you walk in, you can hear the phone ringing constantly. The busy ringtones make people feel nervous, as if they are seeing warriors competing against time.
Iwahashi Shinichi imagined Iwahashi Asako answering the phone. In this busy atmosphere, she received a call from her brother who she almost never contacted, saying that she wanted to meet. How did she feel?
"Your surname is also Iwaqiao. Are you related to Lawyer Iwaqiao?"
The young female clerk who just opened the door for him finished her phone call, looked at him, and asked curiously.
