IZ*ONE 1st single [Suki to iwasetai] (2019/02/06)

What i want to know is who wrote and produced the songs? Aki-p?

 

Its the Kpop fansign lottery system. People buy hundreds of albums just to have enough chance to win a place in the fansign. I believe Twice’s average win rate is around 100 albums and its around 400 for EXO and Wannaone

 

i remember i read somewhere that aki-p is still the one writing the songs.. cant find the source anymore.

 

Wouldn't worry too much about worldwide availability. HKT is now on Spotify worldwide and IZ*ONE and HKT are both part of Universal Music Japan.

 

hi, i heard the first press in cd japan is sold out, do you know if it is available elsewhere?
thank you

 

/hopes that the songs will be on Spotify/

 

Not sure but the Izone shop seems to still have it -- you'd have to use buyee or another proxy to have it shipped outside japan though or use means available in this forum to buy and have it shipped within japan.

 

I hope the song will be good or else Knetz will talk trashy for the nth time.

 

Individual signing session
1st round
Ranked by number of sold slots

1 Wonyoung - 5/5
1 Sakura - 5/5
1 Yuri - 5/5
1 Chaewon- 5/5
1 Minju - 5/5
2 Yena - 4/5
2 Yujin - 4/5
2 Nako - 4/5
3 Eunbi - 3/5
3 Hyewon - 3/5
3 Chaeyeon - 3/5
4 Hitomi - 1/5

 

Poor Hiichan at the least the k-members are doing well for the fansign...

 

Apparently none of individual HT slots are sold out yet

And... anyway, IZ*ONE will sing their new song @ CDTV NY SP tomorrow

Spoiler

hope its sasshi-p song

 

Does anyone know the venues btw?

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A more detailed version

Pink - Hitouch - 1 CD
Yellow - Group Hi-touch (separated into W, I, Z, O, N and E) - 4 CDs
Green - Fansigns - 13 CDs

Well hitouch is like 1-2 seconds so there's gonna be 4-5 times more tickets than a HS slot and its 1 hitouch ticket per member for the 1st round

 

Well, the clock starts ticking when you enter the booth and I think the guesstimate from the HS-goers here is around 4-5 seconds and with 50 minutes instead of 1.5 hours, it's roughly 600 per slot on the conservative end compared to 400-500 for HS. So almost the same number.

But I agree that the 1 ticket per member is a really big factor. Next round is 3 per member so we'll see how it goes although another big limiter is apparently you can't stack multiple tickets which makes you not buy multiple tickets for the same slot. But we can only see the sold out slots so sales may be better than we think. And it seems like many people are buying the box set. I hope honda sells well on the individual HT, wouldn't want any member to feel bad by having noticeably much less fans in their queue than everyone else. Anyway, it's only the first round.

 

Feb 16: Makuhari Messe
Feb 17: ATC Hall Osaka
Feb 23-24: Makuhari Messe

 

Looks like there's sold out slots now for the individual HT (at least from the application site):
JWY, Yuri, Yena, Chaewon have 5, Minju 4, Sakura 2, Yujin and Nako 1. All 6 group HT on first day also sold out and 1 more on 2nd day.

Looks like sales are going to be good. I'm kinda worried about the song though seeing the costume.


Edit: Oh and all signature slots are sold out so every member is 5/5. Good for Honda. And that's a lot of cds already. If they can fit 100 people in one signature slot that's 78,000 cds already (100 x 13 cds in the box set x 5 slots x 12 members).
Edit: guess I miscounted sakura's I-HT and the 3 should be 2.

 

I think people are expecting way higher sales than what we are getting. I will be happy with 100k tbh

 

If they do the same level of promotion, appearence and budget as they did in Korea for La vie en rose, sales better be good, or they will loose quite some money.

 

I think a brand new group is not supposed to make money immediately (sort of like a new business). These promotional expenses now also serve as a medium/longer term investment to get the group known now since they're new. Of course I can say that since I'm not the one spending but I'm glad OTR and others seem heavily invested in the group. I hope it works out.

 

Is it because they think Nako can't reach the "high" touch ???

 

We all thought Sakura would have sold out the slots by now. Not surprised with the highest sold outs, esp Chaewon. But overrated queen ChaeYon? How about EunBi?