spockitty

hmm this made me lol, just cuz growing up with crappy downloading methods meant that I was content with having the one song I heard, without looking into it and realizing it was from an entire album.

now you have the option and awareness to get the whole album cuz that’s the online web’s job and people still will just get the one song lol.

If I had to look into all the albums I only have one song of, I think I’d die lol it’s just too late for me.

lol my initial experience is pretty much the same, but I do remember as soon as I was able to dig information about the releases' contents, I was spending hours collecting each song from the darkest corners of the internet to make it complete. it's a deep rooted issue of mine is what I'm saying X'D 

see! I'm at a turning point basically, the only digital stuff I own, is releases that were only ever released digitally. 

I cackled at the class because of "took it a step further". At least tell me that you've been blessed by this little "" guy ;-;

yeah, it continues to be a blessing for the misclick happy people like me ^^;; 

I'm pretty sure they're paid on a per-song basis (one of Gackt's former ghostwriters spilled this), if paid for composing etc at all;

iirc some of them are basically salaried employees, but I can't remember if this applies to all bands, or starting at a certain popularity once their label signs them full-time.

your answer might in fact have risen even more questions for me lol

my knowledge of behind-the-scenes financial goings of music industry is surface at best and I got a feeling vk is not the best place to start digging deeper

thank you though! 

vk/japanese entertainment is different from western music (in the west, record producers are paid once their songs are sold to someone + they might get a cut from each live performance, each licensing deal i.e. advertizing or movie tie-ins, etc, depending on their contract);

japanese entertainment has a talent agency that owns the band/artist and it sells the artist to a record label, and from there, it gets less clear for me because some artists are open about working for non-vk activities and getting paid for those, with others it's rly quiet (they might not get any composing money at all, settling for an office job style salary that covers everything they record and pitch to the label, regardless if that stuff ends up released under their name or sold further.)

Gackt (a self-proclaimed self-made/self-raised chanteuse and composer) paid his support musicians around $5k for composing his singles at his peak, iirc.

Ohhhh, i see what you mean!

This, so much. The "restore" function saves lives.

I’ve been there for sure haha