Naoki Osada, former CEO of Avex USA, has introduced the launch of Nebula17, a multi-faceted music firm that gives label, publishing, enterprise capital, worldwide technique and administration providers. Like a lot of his work at Avex USA, the corporate is designed to propel forward-thinking Japanese artists, trying to launch their careers in the U.S. and different world markets.
Launched as demand for J-pop and different Japanese genres grows overseas, Nebula17 will probably be headquartered at a brand new studio home in West Hollywood, Calif., that may function each an workplace and a hub for its songwriters.
Already, Nebula17 has a report deal in place with Awich, a number one voice in Japanese hip-hop who has collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and A$AP Ferg, and a publishing deal inked with writer-producer Marcus Munroe, whose credit embody GENERATIONS and BALLISTIK BOYZ from EXILE TRIBE. Osaka has additionally recruited Oscar Cornejo (Tyla, Quavo, Wealthy The Child) to act as head engineer for the Nebula17 studio. In accordance to a spokesperson for Nebula17, the corporate can be actively growing “multi-platform IP and making ready its first slate of worldwide releases” for later this 12 months.
On the enterprise capital aspect, Nebula17 has participated in the early-stage financing spherical for Indify, a web-based platform designed to join viral indie artists to strategic buyers. Nebula17 itself is backed by a bunch of strategic buyers, all of which hail from leisure, tradition and technology-related industries. This consists of Akatsuki Inc., a number one Japanese leisure firm, which led this spherical of funding, and different key buyers like Japanese administration firms BMSG, ASOBISYSTEM and And Music. Angel buyers embody Paul Bragiel (serial entrepreneur and an early investor in Uber and Unity), the co-founders of the crypto-centric VC Decima Fund, and executives from gaming and Web3 agency Gumi.
“There couldn’t be a extra excellent time to deliver this imaginative and prescient to life,” says Osada. “The world is lastly prepared to hear these voices, and Nebula17 is right here to amplify them — with the correct A&R methods, world administration experience, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Our purpose is to construct a brand new bridge between Japanese tradition and the worldwide mainstream — one artist at a time, powered by prime U.S. creatives and enterprise leaders.”
Osada brings greater than twenty years of expertise working for the Japanese leisure firm Avex, each in his homeland of Japan and in the U.S.. Whereas on the helm of Avex USA, he made a strategic funding in S10 and launched a publishing three way partnership with S10 founder Brandon Silverstein, main to the signing of prime expertise like Harv, Jasper Harris and GENT!. Osada additionally created a publishing three way partnership with Runner Music, an organization co-founded by Ryan Tedder, the place he signed producer Grant Boutin. Moreover, Osada used his prime put up to assist launch the Japanese boy band ONE OR EIGHT internationally.
