Become A Music Monster Overnight! [EN]: Chapter 9

4. YC Entertainment

-YC Entertainment-

That was the name of the YouTube channel I was creating.

There was no difficulty in deciding the name.

From the day I shared memories with him, I had decided to create an entertainment company here that surpassed the YC Entertainment he had created.

I had to nurture this channel well for the sake of the group activities with my masters, solo activities, and the girls I used to receive strength from and now want to help.

One well-nurtured channel can provide tremendous help with promotion.

“Since we gained attention with cover songs, it would be good to grow with cover songs for a while.”

I chose Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ as the first cover song.

It had the significance of being the song from his famous video, but the real reason I chose this song as the first was different.

It was because it was a cover song with many shortcomings, including the poor system of the coin karaoke [a small, enclosed karaoke booth, often found in public spaces].

Most of the comments on the video were praising me, but some were downplaying my skills, saying they were overrated because they took advantage of the poor environment.

They argued that it didn’t make sense for someone with such outstanding singing skills to be unknown until now.

“These guys are hitting me when I want to cry…”

Thanks to that, I was a little fired up, and the arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody was completed in an instant.

It didn’t even take a day to finish. This was also the result of the system I had not being fast enough.

Perhaps, if I build a proper system in the future, I will be able to complete it twice as fast.

The arranged Bohemian Rhapsody was created around the guitar.

I wanted to play and record all the instruments, starting with the drums, but I gave up because the cost-effectiveness was too low.

The coin karaoke version of Bohemian Rhapsody was promoted as a gossip item in various media, so it got so many views, but cover songs don’t usually get that many views.

If you do well, you can get about a million, and if you get lucky and become a gossip item again, you can exceed ten million, but usually, getting just over a hundred thousand is considered a success.

-Jijijijing!-

“Is it because I haven’t done it in a while? It’s not going as well as I thought.”

I was having trouble with the sound work to improve the quality of the sound.

I didn’t like the recorded guitar sound as much as I thought I would.

After suffering so much, I realized that this was related to a musician’s chronic disease.

Most musicians don’t like the sound that has been cut out to make it clean. This is because the volume feels insufficient compared to their own guitar sound due to the lost parts in the process.

However, this can actually be solved with high-end audio equipment.

The reason why I, a seasoned veteran, realized this so late is because I took the level of the studio I used to handle in that world for granted.

“I suffered for nothing.”

I was annoyed because I thought I had played the guitar wrong and recorded it three more times, but I decided to be satisfied with knowing the cause.

The Bohemian Rhapsody, created after unexpected hardships, first uploaded a video that edited the highlight part.

It was a short video with a 40-second highlight followed by a 10-second self-introduction.

It goes without saying, but the first video of this monumental YC Entertainment showed a truly miserable response.

It didn’t exceed 5 views, and most of those views were probably from me clicking on it.

Then, as it became 12 o’clock at night, things started to change.

Before 12:01, the number of views exceeded 100, and within 10 minutes, it exceeded 1000.

The reason was simple.

Right below the coin karaoke video, someone promoted my YouTube channel with the words that they had found the main character of the video.

In particular, more than half of the video viewers were from overseas, so thanks to the promotion in English, the boom of this video was quickly spreading to my YouTube channel in the regions where it was belatedly occurring.

Thanks to that, the first video exceeded 10,000 views in less than an hour, and the number of comments exceeded 100.

-I listened for a moment and got goosebumps! Seriously, it’s crazy. ㄷㄷ [Korean slang for ‘ㄷㄷㄷ’, representing trembling or shock]-!

-I can’t be sure until the video comes out 12 hours later, but I’m sure a song video like God Singer will come out [referring to a video of someone with exceptional singing ability].-

-Ah~. I was sure he would be ugly. The world is so unfair.-

-He’s not super handsome… but the atmosphere is strangely amazing.-

-More than that, YC Entertainment? The entertainment companies that were looking for God Singer must be dumbfounded.-

-When I looked it up, it was created 15 days ago, so it’s likely to be a one-person agency.-

-If this video does well, it might become noisy again [meaning it will attract a lot of attention and possibly controversy].-

“The response is better than expected.”

I watched the video response for another hour and turned off the computer when the number of subscribers exceeded 1,000.

“Aigo~ [an expression of exhaustion or frustration].”

And with a natural exclamation, I threw myself on the bed.

The aftermath of staying up all night because the work didn’t go as planned seemed to be coming all at once.

I couldn’t think of anything else, and I fell into a sweet sleep for the first time in two days.

I woke up 12 hours later.

I thought I was more tired than usual because I had been overdoing it more than usual, so I changed into my running clothes and left the house as usual.

The rest of the day was the same as usual.

After exercising, I went to the studio and arranged and restored my songs from that world that I hadn’t restored yet.

In the evening, I organized the musical ideas that came to mind while arranging and created new songs.

“This song came out better than I thought.”

However, I thought it would be best for a female band vocalist to sing it rather than me.

The lyrics were scribbled in the unique end-of-the-century feeling of the 20th century, and it felt good.

‘It’s a song that could be released overseas. Of course, if I want to go there completely, I have to change the lyrics to English and rearrange them a bit.’

However, the most important thing is who sings it.

If a world-class singer sings it, it could be number one on the Billboard charts, but if it’s an unknown band, it will be difficult to get into the top 100 of Lemon [likely a fictional music chart or platform, similar to Spotify or Apple Music].

I finished the song called ‘late dinner’ before the day was over.

It was just a song taken with MIDI [Musical Instrument Digital Interface, a technical standard that describes a communications protocol], but it was such a well-made song that it seemed to be able to shake people’s hearts enough.

“Eueueuk~.”

I stretched my stiff back, packed my bags, and left the studio.

On the way home, I picked up my phone and opened YouTube.

It wasn’t that I wasn’t curious about the response to the first cover video, but I was afraid that if I started watching it once, I would become obsessed, so I deliberately stayed away from it and only saw it now.

“Where should I look? Oh!”

The channel I checked was growing bigger than I thought.

The number of subscribers had just exceeded 20,000, and the number of views of the newly uploaded video exceeded 70,000.

Some may think it’s small, but this was actually double my expectations.

70,000 views means that everyone who was going to watch it has already watched it.

If this video was uploaded to a famous music channel, it would have received a proper buff, but unfortunately, this video was uploaded to a high school band club channel with just over 10,000 subscribers.

Considering that, it was amazing to receive this much of a buff.

I was surprised by the number of subscribers and views for a while, and then I started reading the more than 1,000 comments.

-What the heck is this person? It’s even crazier when he sings with all his heart!-

-Seriously, I don’t think of Freddie Mercury at all.-

-The vocals are vocals, but what about this guitar? ㄷㄷㄷ [Korean slang for ‘ㄷㄷㄷ’, representing trembling or shock]-!

-That’s right! YC Entertainment, reveal who the guitarist is! Reveal it!-

-The guitarist is not Korean. I make a living in this field, and no one in Korea can play with this kind of sensibility. By the way, the vocals and arrangement are crazy!-

-Seriously, the arrangement is crazy! It doesn’t seem like much, but this is a sense that you can’t do unless you’re born with it. Are you using this sense for a YouTube cover song?-

-Just looking at the arrangement and guitar, other entertainment companies can’t even put their names on it. What a crazy recruiting power.-

-Seriously, isn’t the quality too much? How much did you spend?-

-It seems like it’s because it’s the first video.-

-If it comes out like this, I think only this person’s cover songs will be on my playlist in the future. It will be difficult [meaning it will be hard to listen to other artists].-

“I tried to take it easy, but it wasn’t bad?”

I muttered and shook my head greatly.

I did it all by myself, but the quality of this song could not be easily made.

At least the world’s top vocalist, the world’s top sound engineer, and an arranger who can slap Billboard had to work together.

Even if they did, it would take at least two weeks. I made it in just two days.

This was also because things didn’t go well in the middle and the studio was poor, but if it had gone well, it would have been possible to reduce the time.

At this rate, it seemed like there would be no problem with 100,000 subscribers in a few months.

“…Yes, that’s what I thought.”

However, people’s interest greatly exceeded my expectations.

In less than two days, the number of subscribers exceeded 100,000, and then the channel began to grow at a terrifying rate.

The number of views of the cover song was even more unusual.

It exceeded 1 million in just three days after it was uploaded. The speed was gradually increasing.

It turned out that the beginning was from a Korean community.

-God Singer’s serious version is scary.-

Someone uploaded it with a title that parodied the serious series of a famous Japanese manga, and it became a hot topic and began to be distributed to each community.

After that, it became a hot topic on SNS [Social Networking Services], and naturally, this increased the inflow speed to my YouTube channel.

What’s unusual is that it’s also becoming a hot topic little by little in Japan because of this serious series parody, and the number of Japanese subscribers is also increasing.

Japanese was occasionally written in the comments, but since I originally started my first overseas expansion in Japan, reading Japanese was not difficult.

“I’ll have to add Japanese subtitles in the future.”

Anyway, this is a big deal.

I originally planned to upload a cover song series as a side job every two weeks, but it seemed like I had to shorten the term considering the situation.

“I’ll have to take one day off a week.”

No, it would be better to make a spare cover video for the whole next week just in case.

Four days after the video was uploaded.

It was also released as an entertainment article, and around that time, the number of views of Bohemian Rhapsody, called the serious version, exceeded 10 million.

“Uwaaa~.”

The children in the band club, who came to visit on the promised Saturday, greeted me with great enthusiasm with curious eyes.

The reaction was more enthusiastic than when we parted a week ago, so I looked at the drummer Young-sik, who was the leader, with a puzzled expression.

Young-sik, perhaps because of his position as the leader, told me the reason with a calm attitude that was different from the other children.

“The reaction to the serious version of Bohemian Rhapsody is big among our peers. I guess it’s because it’s a parody of the famous serious version.”

“Ehyu [an expression of exasperation]. Try to calm down that guy Ji-won somehow.”

“Yes. I’m sorry.”

Ji-won, who had been jumping up and down and making a fuss since the entrance of the school, dragged Ji-won somewhere as soon as he apologized.

About 30 minutes later, the atmosphere was roughly calmed down.

And around that time, Ji-won, who can be said to be the first-string [the most prominent or skilled member] of the Soo-sia band, went on stage.

Ji-won, who looks like a child somewhere because of her personality and height, was in charge of vocals in the band.

Certainly, she looked quite serious when she held the microphone, perhaps because she was going to make it her main job.

“The visuals are good.”

She is short, but her head is small, so her overall proportions are excellent. If you only take pictures, no one would think that she is only a little over 150cm tall.

In addition, she was wearing makeup today, so she looked like an idol.

In addition, the other members were also decent, so they were harmonious overall.

“No joke… it’s really good?”

Although the band market is declining in Korea, Japan was different.

There are chain stores where you can perform rock music like convenience stores, and bands that have gained some fame also move along the tour course.

In that sense, if you look at it visually, it was highly likely to be popular in the Japanese market.

As the Japanese market, where shonen manga [a genre of Japanese comics and animation targeted towards young boys] is very popular, a band centered on a girl who plays rock music would attract attention in itself.

I, who had the experience of the guy who had successfully produced several idols and singers, took a slightly more serious attitude.

‘Above all, they said they were going to the competition next month, so they must be good at it. Where should I look?’

When I searched briefly, the level of the competition they were going to was amazing.

‘It’s not a level that high school students go to?’

It was a cable channel, but the finals could be broadcast, and the prize money and support level were high. It was a competition that professionals would pay attention to rather than amateurs.

It’s a place where you can’t even pass the first preliminary round if you go out with poor skills, so I couldn’t help but look forward to it since they said they were going to go there.