Sony Music Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Sony Music’s VTuber project “VEE” will release original songs for 5 consecutive weeks! The first song is “Dancing☆PONPON”, the first original song by VTuber “Mina Sakuratori”! !
“Mina Sakuratori”‘s first original song “Dancing☆PONPON” is now available digitally! Keiichi Hirokawa of MONACA is in charge of the music! Lyric video will also be released at the same time!
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Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President: Toshiaki Muramatsu) is pleased to announce that it has been decided to release original songs for five consecutive weeks regarding the virtual talent development and management project “VEE”. . In addition, as the first step, we have started digitally distributing the original song “Dancing☆PONPON” by the virtual talent “Mina Sakuratori” to which we belong, and have also released the lyric video of the song.
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“Mina Sakuratori” is a virtual talent that debuted on June 27, 2022 from the VTuber project “VEE” by Sony Music. We are active in various genres of distribution such as game commentary and chat distribution, and we specialize in “durable distribution” that continues for a long time. The number of subscribers on YouTube exceeds 30,000, and the number of simultaneous users of the stream is also recorded at over 1,000.
On February 14th, Sony Music Labels began digitally distributing Mina Sakura’s first original song, “Dancing☆PONPON.”
It’s a dancing number reminiscent of Showa popular songs, and it’s a song that fits Mina Sakuracho’s worldview.
[List of distribution sites]
https://audreymina.lnk.to/PONPON
[Lyric video release URL]
Furthermore, a lyric video by “Chariki” will be released in
conjunction with the start of distribution of this song.
The video allows you to listen to the song in full size, and the world view is expressed based on text and design.
https://youtu.be/yl_chmMkwn0
[Video 2: https://prtimes.jp/api/movieim.php?url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl_chmMkwn0] [Song credits]
■Song: Sakuracho Mina
■Words: Tadanagi Tsumi
■Music & Arrangement: Keiichi Hirokawa (MONACA)
■Recording Engineer: Hironobu Asano (redefine), Kaori Ishikawa ■Mixing Engineer: Hironobu Asano (redefine)■Drums: Takuya Kanagawa ■All other instruments & Programming: Keiichi Hirokawa (MONACA) ■Recording Studio: Splash Sound Studio, Evergreen Leland Studio ■Mixing Studio: Splash Sound Studio
■Jacket design: Ryo Misaki
[Lyric video credit]
■Movie: Chariki
https://x.com/bike_chari_
■Title logo: Fashion Center (ゑ)
https://x.com/RadioWaveDOLL
“Mina Sakuracho” profile
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Sakuracho Mina: Artist photo
A virtual talent belonging to the VTuber project “VEE” by Sony Music. She’s a holy wizard who moved to this world because she got hooked on the otaku culture, and she’s an older sister who loves zombies, giblets, and beer.
Debuted on June 27, 2022. We deliver various genres such as game commentary and chats. In particular, it is characterized by “durable distribution” that continues for a long time, and the style that overwhelmingly picks up the posts in the comment section is popular. The number of subscribers to his YouTube channel exceeds 30,000 (as of February 2024).
On February 14, 2024, he released his first original song
“Dancing☆PONPON” from Sony Music Labels.
X: https://x.com/mina0x0audrey
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MinaAudrey
Detailed profile: https://vee-official.jp/talent/audrey-mina/ Regarding the release of original music for 5 consecutive weeks
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A certain song will be released as the third installment on the day of “VEE CONCEPT LIVE ‘Merge'”.
Furthermore, the fourth release is “Emotional night” by Ringo Kujo, and the fifth release is Yozuri Aomiya’s “one more try!”.
Details of each song will be announced later, so please look forward to it! [5 consecutive weeks of original music release schedule]
2/14 (Wed): Sakura Mina “Dancing☆PONPON” 2/21 (Wed): Kujo Ringo “Ahhhhhh” 2/28 (Wed): *Song details will be announced at a later date 3/6 (Wed): Kujo Ringo “ Emotional night” 3/13 (Wed): Yozuri Aomiya “one more try!”
“VEE” project overview
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VEE: Logo
The largest virtual talent development and management project in history by Sony Music. Through this project, in addition to streaming and video production, each virtual talent will develop activities such as music, voice acting, and creation to make their “dreams” come true. We will support the activities of each virtual talent by making full use of the know-how and solutions possessed by Sony Music Group, which has developed a wide range of entertainment businesses. “Dev-a” in May 2022, “Dev-b” in June, “Dev-c” in August, “Dev-d” in October, “Dev-e” in April 2023, 8 “Dev-f” debuted in February, and “Dev-g” debuted in November.
A total of 25 virtual talents are currently active.・Official website: https://vee-official.jp/ ・Official YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@VEE_official ・Official X:
https://x.com/_vee_official_
More details about this release:
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000098.000049041.html