Hi, I do have questions about how management company work. For Xz case, his management company clearly didn’t treat him well. Before CqL, it can be explained since he wasn’t famous and didn’t bring much benefits to them. However after CqL the treatment didn’t improved, esp the 227 incident which they literally did nothing to help him out. Even though with his immense popularity, he could bring them so much income and benefits? And also since he has his own studio now, does it mean that his management company will receive less?
XZ’s case is interesting because he actually originally was signed to Wajijiwa as an X-NINE member. With idol groups, contracts last a certain term if an artist is signed as part of a group. Some contracts stipulate that the term lasts for a specific period of time or unless the group is disbanded, while others are strictly with the individual for a specific period of time, independent of whether or not they are part of a group.
From what I do understand, at the beginning of 2019, X-NINE disbanded. If XZ’s contract would have expired with Wajijiwa upon disbanding, then that would explain why Wajijiwa really wasn’t interested in helping him - especially if he was trying to renegotiate his contract with them and hadn’t yet actually signed anything.
If there was a contract dispute or the contract was being renegotiated, it would make sense why they not only did not help him, but also went out of their way to block XZ from getting brand deals and disrupted his ability to continue to promote. From what I understand, XZ actually took legal action against them but it was settled out of court. He formed XZ Studios in 2019, which is supposed to be his own company/division. (It’s unclear if XZ Studios is an imprint on Wajijiwa and if they have anything to do with them or not - someone would have to send me a screen shot of his latest single’s metadata for me to determine if there’s a connection or if he has a new publisher and label.)
If Wajijiwa has a sunset clause in their contract, they should be able to collect on royalties and other commissions from anything that was negotiated during the term of the contract. If they don’t have one, which is very unlikely, then they wouldn’t get anything from the original contract.
I don’t know if there still is a contract with Wajijiwa or not - or if the settlement might have released him from any potential contract that may or may not have existed and/or have been in renegotiation. There simply is not information to actually speculate without it being highly irresponsible, so I can’t really say much more on this beyond the above, based on what I know to be true about management contracts and the actual timeline of events.











