King of Arama has left Johnny's

[umbrellaphone]

Akanishi Jin's (29) contract with Johnny's Jimusho has expired at the end of February, and both parties agreed to not renew it.The Jimusho has currently given out no further details. However, according to an official, Jin's intentions had conflicted with the Jimusho's. Rather than the mainstream idol music from his KAT-TUN period, he has strong

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[nuuuf]

Damn... I don't know if I think that's a smart move or just the stupidest shit ever. I'm kind of scared for the quality of possible future releases... Please spare us from the auto-tune everywhere. Please.
Did the Warner issue any comment ?

[ocha_suki]

dunno if Warner issued any comment or yet, but on his fb info, he no longer has any Record Label since it's written "independent" now

[nozo_rin]

he is so #screwed

[nuuuf]

Oh Gods.
Well... I guess it's gonna be hard for him to successfully go global if he has no major company supporting him or what. Don't know what he has in mind, hope for him he's got a back-up plan. Good luck in his projects...

[blazingeternity]

afaik his Warner contract was a distributional contract unrelated to his J&A contract and for the purpose of being able to put out his very un-Johnny's music and do stuff in America.
He's still listed on Warner Music, so for now I'd say he's independent (as in: not under the management of a label or agency... which has never been Warner anyway) but would still release via Warner.

[ocha_suki]

a Record Label is a record label right? not a management artist/agency.
what is written as independent on his FB is a "Record Label", not agency or whatsoever. regarding he's still listed on warner japan i think that the site perhaps hasn't been updated yet, same as on johnnys-net.jp, he's still listed there as J&A artist...
but who knows, let's see a couple of days or at least until his dvd concert had been released on Apr 02, 2014. if he's still under warner japan after that event, then, that's good for him.

[blazingeternity]

Yes and no

[chizzyrei]

It's not like Jin was with Warner just bec of his own self. He was with Warner bec Johnnys has negotiated in behalf of him, tailing Yamapi's path

Same set up with all the other Johnny groups and artists under several record labels. It would make sense if both contracts expired at the same time, also seeing how he has released stuff one after the other from last year to fulfill his contract terms.

Well we can just wait and see what happens till the DVD release. Warner solely taking him is possible, but without JE and with Yamapi still with them I really doubt it

[silverrain184]

Jin was with Warner long before Yamapi signed, as much as I know. So he wasn't exactly tailing Yamapi.

[blazingeternity]

I was just talking about contract types in general to point out how one cannot draw extensive conclusions from one expired contract ^^

Also, it doesn't matter who negotiated with the label, the contract will be between the label and the artist (unless the agency is the sole owner of all respective rights). It could be that Jin got a time-bound contract that would end around the time the J&A contract did, or maybe next year or whenever... or he got one for a specific amount of releases and it depends on how much of the quota he already fulfilled.

idc for Warner, there are better labels for him.

[turtle_yurippe]

I love your icon! I never played Final Fantasy, but I had a friend who did and I loved, loved this scene. Although it gets from romantic to how the hell do they breathe under water?