Romantic comedy with all members, why am I single?

Chapter 313 Joint Planning
The most important thing is that judging from the expressions of Iura Hide and other people around him, Iura Hide was not lying.

That means someone really spent 400 million yen to have Iura Shu create two songs specifically for him.

Which bastard is driving up prices?

After coming to his senses, Toshihiko Karasawa almost couldn't help but swear.

"Ah!"

In a dilapidated mansion in the suburbs of Saga, Tatsumi Kotaro, who was working hard to choreograph "Star!!" and "Code B", suddenly sneezed twice.

But after thinking about it carefully, Toshihiko Karasawa had to admit that the price was actually quite reasonable.

The value of a good song cannot be judged solely by the revenue from song sales itself. What is more important is the increase in popularity, and after the popularity increases, the increase in revenue from advertising, commercial performances, peripheral products, etc.

Apart from anything else, if these two songs can reach the top ten of the weekly charts, then the 400 million will be well spent.

To give another example, if Key Time spent 200 million yen to tailor a top ten song for Nanami Kuon.

The huge popularity that can be brought will definitely make it easy for Nanami Kuon to go on the stage of Summer Sonia Music Festival.

The effect is many times better than him spending 200 million to buy votes indirectly.

But he felt it was useless. He had to convince the firm's management and even all shareholders of such a large sum of money.

However, he knew without even trying that this was almost impossible.

Not only investing is risky, buying songs also has considerable risks.

Who can guarantee that a work created by spending 200 million on Hideo Iura will definitely be able to enter the top ten of the weekly chart?
In comparison, other management of the firm would certainly prefer to spend 8000 million to find veteran composers and arrangers in the industry.

Although their works cannot guarantee to enter the top ten of the weekly chart, the lower limit will not be too low.

And as long as he can enter the top 30 of the weekly chart, the 8000 million will not be a loss, so from a risk perspective, no one will choose Iura Hide.

In this case, if he wanted to get Nanami Kuon and Hide Iura to cooperate, he had to find another way.

For example.
"Two hundred million yen is indeed a lot of pressure on our agency, but I heard that Iura-san recently acquired an artist agency called Blue Voice, right?"

"I believe that with Iura-san's vision, he will be able to see Nanami-chan's talent and strength."

"So why don't we try a different way of cooperation? For example, Key Time and Iura-san's Blue Voice jointly plan to help the band AZALEA start anew?"

Although Iura Hide remained calm after hearing this, he couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, because the joint project proposed by Toshihiko Karasawa was exactly what he wanted.

In fact, joint planning is one of the characteristics of the Japanese entertainment industry, especially in the idol circle, where it is very common.

Because the artist agencies that focus on idol business mostly have relatively weak strength and resources.

In addition, idols are replaced very quickly, so in order to save money and reduce risks, many artist agencies will conduct joint projects with record companies. One party is responsible for producing artists and providing singing and dancing training and publicity, while the other party is responsible for providing works, and the profits are then distributed according to the agreement.

For example, before he acquired Blue Voice, Feng Zhensaki had jointly planned a four-person virtual idol project with a small music company.

"Of course you can, but my requirements are quite high."

Under the nervous and expectant gazes of Toshihiko Karasawa, Nanami Kuon and the other two, Hide Iura frowned slightly, pretended to think seriously for a moment, and then stated his conditions.

"First, from now on, I will be responsible for all their songs, except for the ones they created themselves. At the same time, except for their own original music, all the digital singles and physical CD revenues of all other songs will belong to me, and Key Time will not be allowed to participate in the profit sharing." "Second, all their live performances in the future must be approved by me. At the same time, I want half of the revenue that belongs to the agency."

"As for other income, such as peripheral products, advertising, film and television, variety shows, etc., I don't need to participate in the profit sharing."

At this point, Jingpu Xiu paused for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and continued: "These conditions are my bottom line, there is no room for negotiation. If your firm cannot accept them-"

Iura Hide turned to smile at Kuon Nanami and said, "Nanami's singing skills are the best I've ever seen, and her voice is very unique, which is very suitable for some of the songs I write. So I welcome Nanami to join Blue Voice directly after her current contract expires."

"What!? Welcome me to join the Voice of Blue!?" Kuon Nanami couldn't help but open her mouth wide, her pretty face with a little sweat was full of surprise, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

At the same time, Toshihiko Karasawa frowned subconsciously after listening to this. After all, what Iura Hide said sounded like a threat, right?
However, even though Toshihiko Karasawa was a little angry, he didn't dare to show it at all.

There is no way. Even a large firm like Key Time would not dare to offend a prolific father like Jingpu Xiu.

At the very least, it is certainly not worth making a fuss over a girl idol band that is between the third and second tier.

After all, idols of this level can be easily mass-produced by spending some money.

What's more, apart from releasing digital singles on streaming media, Iura Shuu only performs in exhibition halls. He doesn't even release physical CDs, and doesn't make any money from advertising or peripherals. Even if they want to target him, they can't.

You can't stop YouTube and Spotify from putting Hideo Iura's songs on the platform, right?
What a joke! Even if Key Time's scale and influence increase dozens of times, it still doesn't have that ability.

So even if Iura Hide threatened him, for the sake of his interests, he would still enthusiastically and humbly seek cooperation with Iura Hide.

"I will try my best to convince other shareholders of the agency of these conditions, but is it really okay for Mr. Iura to be responsible for AZALEA's songs alone?" Toshihiko Karasawa raised his only concern.

"At least five songs every year. This can be written into the contract." Iura Hide said very straightforwardly.

Just kidding, he has more than 12 Ado songs in his head, and five songs a year is enough for years.

Moreover, although Nanami Kuon's voice is very similar to Ado's, it does not mean that he can only sing Ado's songs, so it is really very easy for him to write songs for Nanami Kuon.

"Then there's no problem." Tang Ze Shouyan nodded and said.

"Where's Nanami-chan?" Iura Hide turned and looked at Kuon Nanami.

Jiuyuan Nanami finally came back to her senses, still with an expression of uncontrollable surprise on her face. She shook her head vigorously and said, "There's nothing wrong with me!"

Are you kidding! They need Iura Hideo's approval to release songs or perform live. This is not a big deal for them.

Key Time's management of them is much stricter than this!

Especially this guy Toshihiko Karasawa, his management of them is almost comparable to that of entertainment companies in South Korea.

Now that their "management rights" have been handed over to Iura Hide, it is actually a good thing for them.

Not to mention anything else, the fact that Iura Hide just asked for her opinion was much better than Key Time.

"Then I'll wait for good news from Mr. Karasawa." Iura Hide retracted his gaze, smiled and took the initiative to shake hands with Karasawa Toshihiko.

At the same time, looking at his face that still had a hint of childishness, Toshihiko Karasawa couldn't help but sigh that young people are really formidable.

(End of this chapter)