DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia Who is DWB? DWB
Paul Drew Greig Watts Pete Barringer
• Guitarist • Publishing • Keyboard • Writer • Top line • Drummer • Producer • Lyrics • Writer • Producer DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia But DWB is more than this . . .
Ricky Hanley Chicks with Hits
DWB Ian Christopher Curnow Wortley
Georgie Dennis & Steven Lee
Bill Padley DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia DWB at midem . . .
midem Asian partners
DWB Strong partnerships forged with Asia through midem
Early successes
• D-side Their album Gravity includes 6 of our written/produced songs.
Collecting • Tohoshinki (TVXQ)
Royalties DWB wrote Dead End which helped TVXQ cross from Korea into Japan. DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia Asia is good at exploiting all opportunities . . .
Original Song Japanese lyrics 500,000 copies in total Dead End (80,000 copies) Released again on album ‘7’ (250,000 copies)
Remixed as second track on Purple Line Number 1 (100,000 copies)
Remixed version released on new album Secret Code (150,000 copies) DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia 2009 / 2010 – Building our reputation with cuts . . .
• Singapore:- Joey Yeung released our song Expose which was translated and released as a Mandarin song
• Japan:- Vanilla Beans released Gamla Stan
• China and Taiwan:- SHIN released Hey Now
• Japan:- Shinwha released Learning How to Breath
• Taiwan:- Jane Zhang relaesd I Do
• Korea:- SS501, released Young Won To Rok
• Taiwan:- Y2J (Yumming 2 Jane) released Come On
• And some others . . . DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia We’ve found a good way of working with our partners
Many Western writers hear that Japan and Korea can be a big market and so they try writing copies of J-Pop and K-Pop.
But the Asian market is opening up to Western sounds. It’s the combination of Western production and Japanese lyrics that works.
When we write songs
• We use great western productions, influenced by our own culture
• And we write in English
But we also write with added influences, based partly on our writing experiences in Japan in 2010.
For example, Japanese has more syllables than English 2010:- eg ‘Hello’ has two syllables in English whereas in Japan, ‘Konichua’ has four. DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia More cuts in Asia in 2011 . . . Kat Tun Run For Cover ANNA TSUCHIYA (number 1) I Believe in Love
Arashi Joy Kis‐My 2, Album sales of 1.5m 3d girl July 2011:‐ #1 seller worldwide!
In total in 2011 we had songs featuring on 6 Number 1's and we really felt the name of DWB was being built in Asia. DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia Writing with Steven Lee . . .
At the end of 2011, we also hosted a co-writing camp with Korean producer Steven lee, which taught us a lot more about writing songs for Korea - and we believe more hits will now follow in Korea.
Already we have two songs being cut by Heo Young Saeng and hopefully more with Chocolat
DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia And in 2011 And in 2012
Cuts for:‐ Cuts for:‐ •Playzone •Ms Ooja •No Man’s Land on Kumi •Kiss My 2 Koda’s Number 1 album •Chocolat •Milestone (BoA) •Run for you on CHAINS, •Rachel Tsiang KAT‐TUN's number 1 album DWB MUSIC LTD Journey to Success in Asia To sum up . . .
1. TEAM
2. MAKING CONNECTIONS AT MIDEM AND OTHER CONFERENCES
3. WRITING/PRODUCING STRONG SONGS FROM THE HEART
4. BEING HONOURABLE IN BUSINESS
5. THINKING GLOBAL AS THE WORLD IS A BIG MARKET – SO LET’S CONNECT!!