This is a known fact for a very long time now, and this is one of the reason seniors don't promote.
Meanwhile, fans are obsessed with Music Show wins.
Both amount is ridiculous, btw. Idols usually shoot their performances at 5-8AM for hours, this isn't good for their health not to mention their vocal cords, and for rookies, it's even worse.
People earn more money at McDonald's. 
Music shows are for promotion (meaning expense not income)
Idols hate doing them, it's just a necessary evil and a cost of doing business. Suga spoke out about it as have other idols, criticizing how ridiculous it is to force idols to wake up at 2AM for three weeks and then make them perform and wait around for 12 hours in those shitty waiting rooms.
Thank GOD the schedules are a lot less extreme these days at least for established acts. They only do it for 1-2 weeks and they prob do it partially as a thank you to the shows like Inki, Music Bank, Core, etc that helped make them popular.
But most of them will never get to see much of the money. I remember when a former idol exposed his life on YT in 2018 and said at first his group made over 1K per person in music shows monthly but he never saw more than 100 bucks of it since his agency was taking rent, food, training, pre-debut fees, phone bill, ... and so on and he said in months where he could've earned up to 7K by income trought merch, CDs, concerts, music shows and so on, he said he mostl never got to see more than 500$ a month and when his group was lesser popular after some time he earned so little that he sometimes even ended up with only having 200 bucks a month and said that did not even left him with a lot since his group had to even pay for some things together that the agency did not pay for and so he took a job as TV-show MV and made 2K a month after taxes where he said he was happy that his agency could not take that money away from him. But he said he got so mad when the income became lower with his group to a level of sometimes only earning 20 bucks a month so he left. And he said he felt sorry for people where he knew their agencies might even take all of the money and not even let the artists earn anything.
Display MoreThis is a known fact for a very long time now, and this is one of the reason seniors don't promote.
Meanwhile, fans are obsessed with Music Show wins.
Both amount is ridiculous, btw. Idols usually shoot their performances at 5-8AM for hours, this isn't good for their health not to mention their vocal cords, and for rookies, it's even worse.
People earn more money at McDonald's.
Its funny how oposite Japan is doing that. You can only promote yourself on music shows if you A) have money and pay your way into the show and B) if you are also famous enough. If you are either poor or unknown its rare to ever see you on TV, like even if you could have a 50 million views MV, but never earned any money with your music you could be too broke to attend a music show in Japan, so if you ever think why are certain JPop idols or KPop idols with Japanese song not promoting in Japan, than its either too expensive or they are still too unknown for the Japanese puplic
Is anybody surprised since the company is paying for everything in regards to the music shows and I'm sorta surprised that they are paid at all
Its funny how oposite Japan is doing that. You can only promote yourself on music shows if you A) have money and pay your way into the show and B) if you are also famous enough. If you are either poor or unknown its rare to ever see you on TV, like even if you could have a 50 million views MV, but never earned any money with your music you could be too broke to attend a music show in Japan, so if you ever think why are certain JPop idols or KPop idols with Japanese song not promoting in Japan, than its either too expensive or they are still too unknown for the Japanese puplic
This is insane! I follow Jpop for longer than Kpop, but I never really cared about their Music Shows, now I know why it was boring.
Japan has a lot music shows but the way they are build is kinda random lol
They have a few as like for example:
and some others
Focus on these is mostly 1-2 artists who perform a song and a bit interview section or they get random musicians perform right after another without leaving a gap between the artists, so you could have a BG perform the most cringe song ever but in the next second get hit with the mist high pitch female singer ever just to end with the greatest rock-band you ever heard about and thats so odd lol
I saw a livestream on Twitch who prodcasts NHK and there was a live stream of CD TV once and gosh the way they switched between a group like JO1 and than a female soloist who sounded like as if she inhaled helium was so weird
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