dreamsetrue's debut press conference is scheduled to be held on the last day of April.
Prior to this, CBS Sony had already sent the band's debut single to advertisers for trial listening in order to find suitable partners for cooperation.
This song first gained a lot of attention during the Band Heaven Competition. Before it was released, it already had a certain audience popularity. The singer is also the champion of topical programs, and is not a blank slate newcomer.
For a newly debuted band, expanding their popularity is more important than anything else. This is also the original intention of seeking cooperation with advertisers. Because of this, during the internal negotiation stage, it is first determined that the song's royalties will be calculated separately. If the advertiser uses this song
, will not require payment of royalties from them.
This method often appears when agencies promote actors on the rise. In order to help them expand their reputation, the agency lowers the price and accepts advertisements. Once it has a reputation, it will be easier to negotiate for roles with the TV bureau, and wait for important roles to be received.
Once you become popular, your net worth will naturally increase, and your initial investment will be returned.
If you look at it this way, with the backing of a major record company, the band itself is somewhat famous, the music is good, and the royalties were waived in the end. It's like a huge sale after the boss ran away with his sister-in-law.
When you buy it, you find it, and when you use it, you earn it.
With the addition of these things, the process of seeking cooperation will be much smoother than that of ordinary new singers. In addition, as Shinichi Iwahashi said, this song is excellent as a commercial song.
Therefore, the process of seeking cooperation was much smoother than that of ordinary new singers. After some back and forth, it was finally decided to play this song as the advertising song for Glico Pocky.
The purpose of deciding on the advertisers to work with in advance is to announce the news at the debut press conference and to build momentum for the band's debut in advance.
The venue for the debut press conference is the Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku, which is not far from CBS Sony’s headquarters in Shinjuku.
In order to prepare for this press conference, CBS Sony and Watanabe Watanabe's U-Miz jointly invited various media in the industry. Thanks to the major record companies, Watanabe Watanabe's office was exposed in the industry.
This is one of the benefits that comes with the band’s debut.
Of course, such a grand formation also made it clear that they were promoted as super newcomers.
Shinichi Iwahashi also serves as the producer. Before the debut press conference, in addition to participating in the recording, he also participated in some work related to the press conference. During this period, he also had to attend the regular meeting of the band Paradise, which was busy all day long.
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On the 28th, Chisato Moritaka's new single was officially launched for sale. For a newcomer like her who has just started to make some progress, the initial sales of her album will not be very good. What determines success or failure is more the subsequent trend, so don't pay too much attention to it yet.
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As for how the agency and record company arrange publicity, that has nothing to do with him as a producer.
When a new single is released, Warner Pioneer pays Genzo production fees according to the contract. Compared with the previous two singles, the funds have increased. At the same time, the production fees paid to Genzo have also increased, an increase of 10% compared to the previous two singles.
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In addition to the production fee, the first batch of sales shares will also be received after the single is released.
The first batch of "17 Years Old" shipped was not too large, but it was still quite a lot. There were 50,000 copies of CDs, LPs, and tapes in total. Half of them were kept in the warehouse and half were put in record stores.
The sudden increase in shipments has also brought considerable income to Genzo. Because the sales of records are not based on how many were sold in the end, but how many were shipped during pressing, so no matter what the sales volume is, it does not matter.
It affects the distribution of sales. If it is reprinted later, it will be another income.
In addition to the singles produced by the winner band since the launch of Band Heaven and the cover albums they have been producing for Tokyo Music Industry Co., genzo, which had nothing but a lot of debt when it opened, can be considered to have improved.
As for Iwahashi Shinichi personally, the signing bonus of 3 million yen when DreamseTrue was signed, after tax was deducted and divided evenly, he got about 700,000 yen.
Although the wealthy people in the bubble era spent more than this amount in one night, once you have the money, you should feel comfortable first.
In addition, CBS and Sony give them a fixed salary of 200,000 yen per month. This figure seems okay, but considering that the expenses in the entertainment industry are different from that of ordinary people, this fixed salary is
To maintain their livelihood and prevent them from doing odd jobs.
A fixed salary is to keep people from going hungry, just like an actor needs to act in a commercial or a model needs endorsements. As a singer, how to sell your records is the only way to reach the top of your life.
The livelihood can be maintained and steadily improved. As Band Paradise becomes a topic, genzo has gained some popularity in the industry and among the public. The next most important thing is whether genzo can produce a work that is worthy of success.
Only when independently produced singers gain market recognition can genzo gain entry into the mainstream industry.
Producing a band for the winner of the competition will increase the popularity, but it will still involve more of an outsourcing role. The person who can really determine whether Genzo can get more opportunities in the industry is Chisato Moritaka, who is actually in charge from start to finish.
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During the busy period before his debut, if there was nothing important for him to handle in the Kawasaki office, he would go there every three days to deal with the backlog of matters.
Because of this, when Shinichi Iwahashi saw the letter sent by Akina Nakamori to Genzo, it was already the 29th.
The clerk who stayed in Kawasaki gave him the letters from the past three days. Shinichi Iwahashi saw this letter from Akina Nakamori and thought to himself, before he could see the feedback from the taste testers, the product was already all over the street.
Nonetheless, opinions are valuable.
Before being a "taster", Akina Nakamori was also an "audience".
The address on the envelope was clear and serious, but when Shinichi Iwahashi took out the questionnaire inside and looked at Akina Nakamori's handwriting, he felt a little want to laugh for some reason.
It's not that Taopusida's characters are ugly rather than beautiful or ugly, it's better to say that they are whatever you want.
The questionnaire he put in the package and sent was filled out by Akina Nakamori in her freehand handwriting, and every question was answered carefully.
Iwahashi Shinichi read it one by one, and Nakamori Akina had a good review of this single and also wrote some of her own thoughts.
Not only does the handwriting follow my heart, but my thoughts also feel a bit like one sentence after another.
When Shinichi Iwahashi looked at such a letter, he felt that Akina Nakamori was writing a letter to him rather than filling out his questionnaire.
