Gramophone Media is No Longer BTS' US Promoter

[revedesnuages.livejournal.com]

Dear all, First, allow me to thank once more the genius Mr. Bang, Big Hit and BTS for giving me and my... https://t.co/7RsclbKRfh

— Eshy Gazit (@eshygazit) February 26, 2018

Dear all,

First, allow me to thank once more the genius Mr. Bang, Big Hit and BTS for giving me and my company the historic opportunity of supporting BTS in the US for the past few years.

I am very proud of what we have all achieved and of BTS' recent success in the US.

Working with all of you was a dream that one can only wish for. I had the honor of introducing BTS to the US audience through some of the biggest TV shows in the world: The American music awards, The Ellen show, Late Night Show with Jimmy Kimmel, New York's Rocking Eve with Ryan Seacrest and the Late Late Night with James Corden. I was able to connect the band with some of the biggest and most important artists of this century including The Chainsmokers, Halsey, Steve Aoki, Fallout boy, Desiigner and many others as well as A&R the remix of Mic Drop which broke records this year and became a gold record recently. I am also proud to lead the promotion of 'DNA' (which also achieved gold status) to top 40 radio in the US; a Korean language record which paved the way for the band's top 40 radio acceptance as well as play-listing in platforms such as Apple and Spotify.

My team and I were also able to secure top press looks for the band including the recent cover of Billboard, a Rolling Stone feature story, New York Times and much more.

None of this was possible without the support of BTS' army, who is the most loyal and committed fan base out there that any band could dream of. Days and night, through and through millions of fans supported these efforts as well as many other efforts and initiatives globally.
I believe that my job is done here, and now it's in the hands of the band, the label and Army to continue and grow the success this year and years to come.

To me this success symbolizes much more than just the success of the band.

It shows that America is ready and open to adopt artists from all over the world, and that more than ever, the young generation here in America and all over the world is looking for authentic art without prejudice or limits. It shows that the music industry is a global industry now and represents the world in its entirety both east and west.

I left music creation 9 years ago with the mission to bring peace to this world through Music's ability to connect us as one.

It is my legacy and my life's dedication to continue to bring peace and peacefulness to the world through music.

I'm humbled beyond words and grateful to all the great people in my life, my family, my team and my friends from all over the world.

Love you all,
Eshy

Source: eshygazit twitter, tumblr

Good riddance. Who do you think should represent BTS for their future US activities?

Comments

[callherblondie.livejournal.com]

WME has worked with kpop companies before like JYPE (Rain) & SM (TVXQ --> JYJ) and still does so they have about as much experience in doing so as any major US agency does.

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Whaaaaat grinch style grinning as we speak, FINALLY! I want to know what the story behind this is. The shamelessness of him still trying to take credit for stuff they did themselves, wow, I guess he's going to keep lying and try to use his fake achievements to lure in other K-pop groups.

The Namjoon reads Omona theory might actually not be that farfetched.

[xlovexlessxtyx.livejournal.com]

Namjoon is secretly slutdrop

[giriboy.livejournal.com]

i'd buy it

[donaldjdrumpf.livejournal.com]

This is not true. Slutdrop is a low-level adviser on my campaign who may have plead guilty already. Namjoon meanwhile refuses to work for me smh

Mr. Monster if you're reading this...

[bob-dabuilda.livejournal.com]

:

Tell Jimin and Jungkook I said "Hhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy" :)

Re: Mr. Monster if you're reading this...

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Now you've done it. He's going to push them down the stairs just to get back at you for calling him Mr Monster.

RE: Re: Mr. Monster if you're reading this...

[jaelissi.livejournal.com]

When he turns 35, he should just change his name to Mr. Monster 🤔

Re: Re: Mr. Monster if you're reading this...

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

He should've done that when he turned 21!

[rainstormraider.livejournal.com]

Why good riddance? Someone please explain the behind-the-scene stuff?

[dropthecrates.livejournal.com]

ikr? i've missed something (although good riddance for the douchesmokers alone)

[msgrottesca.livejournal.com]

Company used to be under a different name, got sued for harrassment and fraud, etc. The owner is an infamous conman pm.

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

my money's on them signing a distribution and marketing deal with Island or Def Jam US in 3...2....1


that's a shitton of I sentences there bud

[donaldjdrumpf.livejournal.com]

I hope not Def Jam

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

ah gotcha! i was going based on their relationship with def jam japan.

[yixingsforehead.livejournal.com]

i'm sure they did....and thank god bts is not with universal.
they have buried kpop groups before. (though they were not distribution-only.)

[queenhinata.livejournal.com]

yeahhh I'm glad their contract is over lol. Eshy was narcissistic and about that kumbayah listen to what I say, I'm kpop messiah bullshit. Multiple times went on rants -> fandom reacted or disagreed politely -> deleted his rants and blocked ppl. that moment when the pr guy needs himself a pr guy.

[jackieee94.livejournal.com]

Now that Bighit dropped them the fandom should do the same. Hopefully they get someone better this time.

[mc1a.livejournal.com]

I heard they hired a global director a few weeks ago. Hopefully they are better and can do their job.

[jackieee94.livejournal.com]

Yeah I saw that, hopefully Bighit learned their lesson with these two and are now checking the background of who they hire.

[shawarmafordays.livejournal.com]

Good riddance to him and that messy PR Samantha who kept using her being BTS' PR to get concert tickets. I hope they partner with WME or CAA, I'm a little iffy about CAA because of the Weinstein scandal but I hope they get a good company to work with.

[shawarmafordays.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I like CAA overall. They represent Kris Wu in America.

[mc1a.livejournal.com]

I saw Jae from Day6 retweeting/following her and there are rumors that Day6 will be represented by them in the US :/

[shawarmafordays.livejournal.com]

Nooooo, Samantha is such garbage omg.

Urgh :(

I hope JYPE is smart, people were saying SM signed with them cuz Eshy was having dinner at the SM cafe and was there for a while.

[jcdhwg.livejournal.com]

right, I'll never forget her coming for those free tickets while voting for ANOTHER group. She's a mess, I called her out for it (politely) and she wasn't having it. lmaooo.
also NEVER forget Eshy his "ALL BY MYSELF" tweet, dude, seriously? ALL BY YOURSELF?

Brent Battles is apparently on their new PR team? He was with them at the AMA's, seems like he can score big events..

@BTS_twt (https://twitter.com/BTS_twt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ARMY, meet one of the main dudes who makes things happen, @brentbattles (https://twitter.com/brentbattles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) of Sony Red! He gave me permission to tweet this so show him love, follow, whatever. And yes he loves #BlackOutBTS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackOutBTS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ❤️💜 pic.twitter.com/XWn0A0wDJG (https://t.co/XWn0A0wDJG)

— 103.7 KISS FM (@KissChattanooga) February 28, 2018 (https://twitter.com/KissChattanooga/status/968927727825969153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

[shawarmafordays.livejournal.com]

Honestly these media people who get a little love from the fandom act like their God when the reality is that they're paid to do their work...I'm not even going into the whole Eshy mess. I didn't even bother following them, I thought Samantha was okay till she did the ticket thing.

I feel about her the same way I feel about Jeff Benjamin and Tamar Writes (the other Billboard writer), she always does passive aggressive articles each time BTS makes a record or does something. I'm just like, can you calm down, sis? Let BTS breathe, lol.

I hope Sony Red is fine with managing them. As long as they do their job and look after Big Hit, I hope everything goes well.

[meggicchi.livejournal.com]

omg for some reason your comment reminds me of this tweet LMAO

pic.twitter.com/8NVHyOZYbU (https://t.co/8NVHyOZYbU)

— OG (@tattedpoc) February 15, 2018 (https://twitter.com/tattedpoc/status/964270739003121664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

[shawarmafordays.livejournal.com]

I'm screaming!

I love Ogechi lmao, she's one of my fave Joon stans to follow on ARMY twitter and I crack up over the stuff she does. But really, Tamar is garbage lol. BTS will take a fart and she'd come up with a listicle on someone farting better or something.

[yuto.livejournal.com]

Omg I didn't know about Samantha!! Probably because I don't really keep up with bts and their people like that. But I remember having a field day when I saw Samantha was part of their PR team because she used to be a 5sos groupie.

[shawarmafordays.livejournal.com]

WHAT?

SAMANTHA WAS A 5SOS GROUPIE??//

LMAOOOOO OMG THIS IS SO MESSY.

[yuto.livejournal.com]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAOOOOOO
IF YOU GOOGLE HER NAME, ONE OF HER PICTURES WITH CALUM SHOWS UP LMFDSUFHS

[shawarmafordays.livejournal.com]

omg she's so messy, I can't.

I wonder if she ever thought her shady past would come back to haunt her. lol.

[kicking-tenshi.livejournal.com]

Uh. I know nothing about this guy and I haven't been paying active attention to bts' American conquest but this guy sounds like a smarmy asshole...

[bethmai.livejournal.com]

Good. This guy is unbelievably narcissistic.

[yixingsforehead.livejournal.com]

yay

i don't have to go on more rants about how bts is better at pr than their pr people...hopefully!

fingers crossed the next agency are real pros

[meggicchi.livejournal.com]

this made me so happy, i always hated them lmao, they were truly were amateurs when they got bts and truly lucked out with armys tbh. someone on twitter posted an exposé thread on twitter, too bad she deleted it :'( but it was mostly things we all knew already anyway.

also samantha started following all of 24K's accounts on twitter so some ppl are saying it's possible they're gonna work with them soon. anyway i'm just glad bts won't be involved with them anymore.

[kyokomurasaki.livejournal.com]

noooooooo save 24K, they've suffered enough

somebody find screenshots of that callout thread and send it to Corey lmao