{"id":46,"date":"2004-03-05T15:26:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T15:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2004\/03\/05\/power_indies\/"},"modified":"2004-03-05T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2004-03-05T15:26:46","slug":"power_indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2004\/03\/05\/power_indies\/","title":{"rendered":"Power indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/newse\/20040304woa4.htm\">This article<\/a> was posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/launch.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/pure-japanese-rock\/\">pure-japanese-rock<\/a> mailing list, and it gives a nice glimpse into the workings of the Japanese music industry in Japan. Shigeo Maruyama quit his job as head of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicrecords.jp\/\">Epic Records<\/a> to launch his own independet label, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.247music.co.jp\">247 Music<\/a>. The article has a few interesting tidbits.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The 3,000 yen price tag of a CD in Japan reflects the staffing levels (at major labels here) rather than a large profit margin,&#8221; Maruyama says.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He also says Japanese major labels are loathe to subcontract, hiring their producers and publicists in-house. The final sentence in the article is particular telling.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Recordings may just become a tool for promoting the live performances of artists,&#8221; Maruyama says, suggesting that &#8220;gigs-and-T-shirts,&#8221; in addition to other forms of merchandising, may become far more significant sources of income for established artists in the future.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s already the reality in the States &#8212; bands don&#8217;t make much money off CDs. They make it on touring and merchandise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeo Maruyama quit his job as head of Epic Records to launch his own independet label, 247 Music. The article has a few interesting tidbits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proto-musicwhore-org"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}