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Reasons

I don't have school until January 2019, so I was bored. With that, I decided to do some research on why Choutokkyuu does not appear on television that often. (since this has been bothering me for a while) If you are interested in the reason, read on.↓

If you follow other jpop groups, you might see that they usually appear on music programmes like Music station (Mステ), Kohaku (紅白) and many more. So there's actually several reasons that I found on the internet as to why Choutokkyuu does not appear on these music programmes.

The first reason is pretty straightforward. There were many people who had the opinion that Choutokkyuu is not popular enough to appear on music programmes like Music station and Kohaku.

The next reason is only a rumour, there is no concrete evidence, so please do not jump to any conclusions. Basically, many people think that Johnny's is behind the fact that most boy jpop groups are not appearing on music programmes that Johnny's dominate.

For those who don't know, Johnny's is a Japanese talent agency which trains and promotes jpop groups like Hey! Say! Jump!, Sexy Zone etc.

Many speculate that Johnny's is putting pressure on most boy groups that have similar music styles to their own boy groups. And so there is a possibility that they are putting pressure on boy groups from Stardust promotion too. There may be many reasons behind doing so, for example to prevent competition etc.

But I would like to emphasis once more that this is just a rumour. Furthermore, groups from Johnny's are usually more popular in Japan, and most people would have heard of groups from Johnny's. So I doubt that this is true.

The biggest reason I found is that Choutokkyuu has never had a major debut. Choutokkyuu did debut, but they never had a major debut.

A major debut is when a group or a soloist signs a contract with a major label company, like Avex, Sony, Warner Music Japan etc. If one does not sign a contract with these major label companies, they are known as independent musicians. Choutokkyuu is an independent musician because they have always been under Stardust Records.

Of course, it might seem like a major debut and a debut is the same thing, but surprisingly, there is a lot more to this whole thing. For people who have major debuts, their share of profits are actually much lesser than those who do not have a major debut. So there is pretty much no meaning if an artist cannot sell their CDs and earn back enough profit. Therefore, to let more people know about these artists, they use publicity means like music programmes that would air on the television. This leads us to our main topic.

Let me remind you once more that Choutokkyuu has never had a major debut. There are a lot of artists that have had major debuts. Therefore, the organisers of those music programmes find a bigger need to promote them than independent musicians like Choutokkyuu.

So there you have it. I don't think that there's really a need for Choutokkyuu to appear on television, but I really hope for it to happen. I really hope that more people would get to know them. Oh and about the major debut thing, I don't think Choutokkyuu members feel a need to have a major debut. When you are an independent musician, you can create your own type of songs, and I think that's what the members of Choutokkyuu want. So ya.

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These are the 3 main reasons that I found on the internet. I am not really sure if you get what I am writing cause I am really bad at explaining things. But I hope you somewhat got it and found this interesting or helpful. Thank you for reading.

If you spotted any grammar errors or anything you want to point out, please let me know in the comments below↓

Oh and the video on top was just for fun.