Park Jin-young talked about music profits and copyright fees on “You Quiz on the Block”
tvN’s “You Quiz on the Block” broadcast on November 1st revealed the estimated assets of Bang Si-hyuk and Park Jin-young.
On the broadcast, Yoo Jae-suk said, “As g.o.d became national singers, they also released a lot of mega-hit songs”, mentioning the songs Park Jin-young and Bang Si-hyuk produced together.
He said, “Park Jin-young has 626 songs registered under his name on KOMCA (Korea Music Copyright Association), while Bang Si-hyuk has 444 songs”.
Yoo Jae-suk then asked, “What do you often make first, the melody or the lyrics?”. In response, Park Jin-young said, “I often come up with ideas for the lyrics, the melody and the dance at the same time”.
Bang Si-hyuk also said, “When I met him, he was the type of person who would sit in front of the keyboard to work. After learning from him for a long time, I also found myself changing and beginning to write lyrics and melody together in my head”.
Park Jin-young composed the logo song for KBS while Bang Si-hyuk made one for Homeplus CM. Regarding KBS logo song, Park Jin-young said, “It was at the top in my year-end settlement report. The song comes out on broadcasts several times a day”, adding “I did it at the request of a PD, and I actually earned a lot from it”.
Yoo Jae-suk commented, “So I should write a logo song for a broadcasting station. Now we know it. It’s really a gold mine”, drawing laughter. When asked, “The No.1 song in terms of copyright profits?”, Park Jin-young said, “It’s definitely recent ones”, then mentioned TWICE’s “What is Love” and “Feel Special”. He added, “The units are different. I talked to Si-hyuk about that before. I said, ‘One hit song makes billions of dollars in the US’, and that’s really what happened”.
Source: Daum
