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Originally Posted by Beauty4123
but doesn't both the management company and the record label go together, though? like if an artist (OLIVIA) is dropped from their management, then that means they'll be dropped by the record label too, since their sorta like partners, like avex and VISION FACTORY is with some artists (like who you've mentioned: namie, EXILE, and even nana tanimura since she's also on VF, but her record label is SONIC GROOVE, which is another one of avex's sub-labels).
sorry to write so much, karen. with all this talk, it's gotten me a bit curious  |
Okay the way it works (as I believe), is that a singer like Namie or EXILE who is signed to a management company is basically just using avex as their CD distributor. And what that means is that Vision factory is running the artists' entire career; they choose the producers they work with, what photographers/directors the artist works with, they plan the promotion, set release dates, handle all the finances, pretty much all the behind the scenes business things that we don't really see, everything that avex does for Ayu except in this case Vision factory is pulling the strings and avex has little say in how her career is run.
Now since vision dropped her, her career management is up in the air. Is she gonna move to a new firm? Is avex gonna decide to manage her themselves? Or is avex just gonna decide that she is not profitable enough and just drop her altogether? Who knows, we just have to wait and see.
And let me just say this, whoever was pulling the strings over there must have been on drugs or something because everyone knows mini albums don't sell like full albums do, so knowing that why would you release 7 mini albums? That would make anyone look unprofitable.