Negicco has released a new single PV called “Anata to Pop with You!”
The video is not very flashy, but the song is really good and it has my favorite color in it.
“Anata to Pop with You!” will hit the stores on June 20 and you can get it at Tower records and i believe you can also order it through HMV.
Question-What happens when Tower Records decides to spend a lot of money on something? Answer-A new Idol company is born.
Tower Records held a press conference on June 3 at their Shibuya location to announce their new Idol Company T-Palette Records!
T-Palette Records! Will be a new gateway for underground Idol groups to enter the mainstream. Signing on with this new label,our their debut units, but no strangers to the underground Idol scene Vanilla Beans and Niigata area Idols Negicco.
Label representative Minewaki Ikuo who is a self- professed "wota" announced at the press conference that he selected these units to be the new company's flagship units.
T-Palette Records! will make their recording debut on June 29 when Vanilla Beans will be releasing a new single, titled “Tengoku e no Kaidan” (a cover of the famous 70`s British Rock Band Led Zeppelin song ‘Stairway to Heaven‘).
July 20 the company will present a double release, Vanilla Beans will release an album “Vanilla Beans II“while Negicco will release a mini-album titled “GET IT ON!
Also this new label on July 10 will throw a listening party for Vanilla Beans new album and both units will hold a mini live at Tower Records on July 20.
Of the two units, I am most pleased that Negicco is getting this national release chance after the long hard road they traveled .This is a solid regional idol group that deserves to breakout on the national scene and a group that we briefly covered in the past and had plans to bring forward more on PIH . Vanilla Beans up-till now was on an Indie sub label of a major record company and have a more established brand name on the scene.
So welcome to the Idol wars Mr. Minewaki and T-Palette Records!
Honestly, while we talk about groups that are for the most part handed fame by their agency, Negicco fought very hard along their way to this, so If you are looking for a new group to support, give this group a chance.
Ten Indie Idol groups are set to battle it out for major label fame, under the watchful eyes of talent management Horipro and television network Tokyo MX. This battle is called the "U.M.U Award 2010," and the competition will pit local idols from around the country against each other for the chance to make their major label debut.
You maybe asking yourself, what does a major talent management agency like Horipro have to do with ten unknown idol groups, locked in a pitch battle for a major label debut.
Well the answer is simple outside of being the sponsor, several of the unit’s members are under contract to Horipro and some even have a much bigger idol job as members of Idoling!!!
[Several of the Idoling!!! members also perform in regional idol groups owned by their talent management firms”]
For the most part the girls in these groups are simply looking for a chance to break out of their local and regional strong holds, to national fame.
Thanks to Horipro and the television network Tokyo MX, one lucky group will get that chance.
The final round of the audition is scheduled for December 27 at the Galaxy Theatre in Tennozu Isle, Tokyo.
Currently six groups have been selected, they are
* Ringo Musume (Aomori)
* Negicco (Niigata)
* Pieace (Saitama)
* Mira Maria (Tokyo)
* Nagoya Meibutsu! Aijou Iinkai (Aichi)
* PixyChicks (Nara)
Three more units will be announced later and the 10th and final unit will come from the "JUMP UP!! ~IDOL Pro Ama Battle Royale~" competition being held the day before the finals (December 26)
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