Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 341 341. On the right track
The debut press conference of DREAMS COME TRUE will 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.

This song first won a lot of attention during the band's Heavenly Kingdom competition. Before it was released, it had a certain audience popularity. The singer is also the champion of the topical program, not a whiteboard rookie who started from scratch.

For a newly debuted band, expanding their popularity is more important than anything else, and this is also the original intention of finding an advertiser to cooperate with.Because of this, in the internal negotiation stage, it was first determined that the royalties of the song were calculated separately. If the advertiser used the song, they would not ask them to pay the usage fee.

This method appears from time to time when the agency promotes rising actors. In order to help them expand their popularity, the agency lowers the price to accept advertisements. With popularity, it is convenient to negotiate roles with the TV bureau, and when they receive important roles After becoming popular, the value will naturally increase, and the previous investment will be returned.

If you look at it this way, backed by a big record company, the band itself is well-known, the music is good, and the usage fee is waived in the end, it is simply a big sale after the boss ran away with his sister-in-law.

What you buy is what you get, what you use is what you earn.

With the addition of these things, the process of seeking cooperation will be much smoother than that of ordinary rookie 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 rookie singers. After some twists and turns, it was finally decided to play this song as Gregor Pocky's commercial song.

The advertisers who will be cooperated in advance are determined in order to announce the news at the debut press conference, and also to build momentum for the band's debut in advance.

The venue for the debut press conference was the Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku, not too far from CBS Sony's headquarters in Shinjuku.

In order to prepare for this press conference, CBS Sony and Wanyumi Watanabe's U-MIZ jointly invited media of all sizes in the industry. Thanks to the blessings of major record companies, Wanyumi Watanabe's office was exposed in the industry. By the way, this can be regarded as one of the benefits of the band's debut.

Of course, such a grand formation also made it clear that they were to be promoted as super-sized newcomers.

Shinichi Iwahashi also serves as the producer. Before the debut press conference, in addition to participating in the recording, he also participated in part of the work related to the press conference.

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On the 28th, Chisato Moritaka's new single was officially launched. For a newcomer like her who has just started to improve, the sales of the album will not be very good at the beginning. The success or failure is more determined by the subsequent trend, but there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

As for how the firm and the record company arrange publicity, this has nothing to do with him as a producer.

When the new single was released, Warner Pioneer also paid GENZO the production fee according to the contract. Compared with the previous two singles, while the funds increased, the production fee to GENZO also increased, an increase of 30.00% compared to the previous two singles.

In addition to the production fee, the first batch of sales shares after the release of the single will also be credited later.

The number of the first shipment of "17 Years Old" is not too much, but it is also quite a lot. There are [-] copies of CDs, LPs, and tapes in total.

The increased shipments have also brought GENZO a considerable income.Because record sales are not determined by how much is sold in the end, but how much is sold when it is suppressed, so no matter how much the sales are, it will not affect the distribution of sales. If it is reprinted later, it will be another income.

In addition to the singles of the winner band produced by the band Tianguo since its broadcast and the cover album that has been produced for the Tokyo Music Industry Association, GENZO, which had nothing but debts when it opened, has also improved.

As for Shinichi Iwahashi personally, the signing bonus of 300 million yen when DREAMS COME TRUE was signed, after deducting tax and dividing it on average, he got about 70 yen.

Although the local tyrants in the bubble era spent more than this amount in one night, but when the money is in hand, they should be comfortable first.

In addition, CBS Sony gave them a fixed salary of 20 yen per month. Life, to the extent that they are not allowed to do strange jobs.

A fixed salary is to keep people from starving, just like an actor needs to act in a commercial or a model needs an endorsement. As a singer, how to make his records sell well is the only way to reach the pinnacle of life.

The livelihood can be maintained and steadily improved. With the band Tianguo becoming a topic, GENZO has gained some popularity in the industry and in the market. The next crucial thing is whether GENZO can produce a work that can be sold.

Only when independently produced singers are recognized by the market, can GENZO get the ticket to enter the mainstream industry.

Making bands for the winners of the competition will increase the popularity, but it still plays the role of OEM. It is still Moritaka Chisato who is in charge of him from beginning to end who can really determine whether GENZO can get more opportunities in the industry.

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In the busy period before his debut, if there is no important matter to ask him to go to Kawasaki's office, he will go there every three days to deal with the backlog of affairs.

Because of this, Nakamori Akina sent the letter to GENZO, and by the time Iwahashi Shinichi saw it, it was already the 29th.

The clerk who stayed in Kawasaki brought him the letters from the past three days. When Shinichi Iwahashi saw the letter from Akina Nakamori, he thought, before he saw the feedback from the tasters, the products were already all over the street.

Still, opinions are valuable.

Before being a "taste taster", Akina Nakamori was also a "listener".

The strokes of the address on the envelope were clear and serious, but when Shinichi Iwahashi took out the questionnaire inside and looked at Akina Nakamori's handwriting, for some reason he wanted to laugh.

It's not that Taopusida's handwriting is so ugly—rather than being beautiful or ugly, it's better to say it's whatever you want.

The survey form that he put in the package and sent over was completely filled by Nakamori Akina in her freehand handwriting, and every question was answered seriously.

Shinichi Iwahashi read each item one by one, and Akina Nakamori gave a good evaluation of this single, and also wrote some of his own impressions after listening to it.

Not only the handwriting can be done as one likes, but also the feeling is a bit east and west.

Looking at such a question and answer, Yanqiao Shinichi felt that Nakamori Akina was writing him a letter rather than filling out his questionnaire.

(End of this chapter)