ITZY is possible signed by Warner Music Direct??!! JYP and Warner Music Korea co-managing ITZY

ITZY's 1st Full album is handled by Warner Music Direct / Warner Music Korea. That explains all the good promotions and 2 M/Vs. Ahgase and Midzy know Division 2/JYP ain't behind all these surprises today.

This explains why ITZY and JYP have unfollowed each other on social medias recently. Warner Music Korea is home to GOT7. I guess they are following their sunbae footsteps.

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I’m confused, they are still under JYP management right?

maybe co-managed. ITZY is the only group unfollowed by JYP official instagram and JYP personal instagram. Something is up. Even JYPn is followed by JYP official instagram.

Niziu and Boy Story are not followed like ITZY. Both Niziu and Boystory are co-managed by Sonic Music Japan and Tencent China.

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JYPE already is understaffed, we all know how big their profit margins are compared to other labels and that's partly cause they dont hire enough staff. They just slave drive their existing ones to the breaking point.

With their big plans to launch multiple GG and BGs over the next few years, they wont have enough staff to handle the new groups and support the existing ones. Letting Warner handle more of Itzy makes sense.

I agree. Warner Music is handling ITZY now since they were grossly under promoted for years. I guess ITZY unofficial left JYP and getting co-managed is going to give them more benefits such better promotions.

Like 2 M/Vs and Target Pre order link even though Stray Kids is also under Orchard and so on.

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maybe it's just about distribution guys

don't overthink things.

JYP is/was ITZY distributor for all Korean releases. It's says now that Warner Music Direct/Warner Music Korea is distributing ITZY's 1st full album.

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look WMK usually posts only teasers of MV's of big groups like for example ASTRO

as for other releases they have solist MV's, as well as some total nugu groups releases, and OST songs

maybe it's just another way and for example, ITZY's MV will be released on ITZY's own youtube channel instead of JYP one

Maybe. I wonder how WMK and JYP are handling ITZY. Maybe 1 M/V will be released on ITZY YouTube channel.

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Itzy's previous distributor was Dreamus? That's what the album says. Same for all JYP Entertainment acts.

No which label distributors for the music rights. That was JYP for all JYP artists except Niziu and Boy Story.

Dreamus and Orchard are music distributors.

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Wdym? I thought that is what this is about? WMD will be taking over Crazy in Love album distribution, which has been done by Dreamus since debut.

Ok sorry I didn't explain well. Warner Music Korea is the label and distributor is Warner Music Direct.

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Yeah, which was previously JYP label/Dreamus(formerly iRiver)distributor. It still says it's Dreamus on KT4U so I guess they haven't updated it yet. Also WMJ is only managing Itzy in Japan, which is a shame since imho they've done a terrible Job with Twice over the last 2-3 years. Was kinda hoping for Sony Music.

Yeah, I wonder how this co-managing of korean artists works in Korea lol. ITZY still is with JYP but they also probably will get help from WMK regarding promotions. Maybe I am misinterpreting and handling doesn't mean will distribute the song but will manage the group/ITZY in regards in promoting the album worldwide/korea.

Sonic Music only wants Niziu. Yeah I wish ITZY would be signed by Sonic Music Japan.

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Girl Itzy are not leaving JYP anytime soon what is this nonsense he literally owns their whole brand even if they did magically break contract and leave as 5 they would most likely get blackballed (like Jessica) or have a gag order or something preventing them from doing any itzy music or even talking about Itzy like others said I think you're reading way too much into this. Idk why some big3 groups stans think walking away from big3 is so easy especially when your group isn't that powerful (besides blackpink and EXO) .

What are you talking about? Did you read what I said? ITZY is not leaving JYP but is being co-managed by Warner Music Korea which gives them promotional strength and produce 2 music video I guess.