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New Featured Artist: MIMI

by Ephemeral

New Featured Artist: MIMI

by Ephemeral

We're proud to pull back the curtain and welcome MIMI aboard as our latest Featured Artist!

Brought to prominence in osu! by one intrepid user's efforts in the past year or two, MIMI is a Japanese producer and artist focused on working with the VOCALOID lineup.

Gathering nearly 15 million plays in total, MIMI's sound is clearly a hit amongst the community, and we're stoked to bring them aboard officially with a selection of 10 tracks from their discography.

Check out a sample below:

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As per the usual, all of the above are available right now over at MIMI's Featured Artist listing pre-timed and ready for your creative touch. Make sure to check them out if you like what you hear!

The hint for this week came on short notice, but a fair people people guessed this one correctly! Congratulations to @nathankogal, @waferosu, @jimmyfung172 and @DedPiranha for being the first on the draw.

Fun fact, did you know that we have weekly releases stacked up now until the start of 2021? That's over 25 new artists waiting in the wings, and an official marker that 2020 will be the first year in which we exceed 100 total Featured Artists.

Make of it what you will, the train continues onwards regardless! Check the @osugame Twitter mid-way through the week for more hints and news that might interest you. With Aspire V in full swing and rumors of a big new mapping tournament making the rounds, it's going to be a great couple of months to spend some of that stuck-at-home energy on making maps to wicked tracks.

—Ephemeral

Comments105

i smell pp >///<

4 years ago

finally!

5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlkzGiM5uE - link of Lapis Lazuli

5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzamOqbbBfQ - link of MOMENT

5 years ago

Yessss

5 years ago

Epic

5 years ago

<3

5 years ago

mimi <33333

5 years ago

Yay mimi!

5 years ago

great addition~•~

5 years ago

"...one intrepid user's efforts..."

Uh-huh, one intrepid user's effort overinflate pp

5 years ago

Thank youuuuu I love MIMI <3

5 years ago

y e s , m o r e p p

5 years ago

void please ...

5 years ago

sukisukinaisuki

a new artist ;]

5 years ago

loona when

5 years ago

Isshiki Kaname chromw

no. baegchi stan
boring answer: kpop artists are usually under big labels that are stuck in olden ways of seeing the industry. doubt they would realize what impact osu does to music, compared to leaf. they would just see it as a music piracy platform, hell you can assume 95% of ranked maps were never made under artist or label permission. there is no significant benefit for mainstream artists (beside doujin music scene) to be a featured osu artist.

5 years ago

Niva Isshiki Kaname

it's not always the case tho... i mean some of the names in the current Featured Artists roster (Virtual Self, Rivers of Nihil, Celldweller, Blue Stahli, etc.) literally can be classified under the "mainstream artist" category in one way or another ( 〃．．)

the thing is -- the copyright system as it stands, especially on how music ownership is currently handled on the general market in this context, is much, much more complicated than most people think at their first glance. most big-name artists out there are usually signed to big/major recording labels, and with these big labels most of the time :

a) the negotiation process would be considerably much more complex/costly as it would be with independent artists/labels, and more importantly

b) the rights to the song's usage are most likely controlled by the label instead of by the artist directly.

all things considered, speaking for osu! and other services that run under a similar term (in the foreseeable future at least) i personally don't see that getting into stuffs that were signed to/released under a major label is a wise choice to take. i know it's unfortunate but yeah ;~;

((hope this helps tho))

5 years ago

edited 5 years ago by Niva

PogYou

5 years ago

holy poggers

5 years ago

OMG best news

5 years ago

i smell pp

5 years ago

no log off now stop

5 years ago

edited 5 years ago by gwb

10/10

5 years ago

YESS MIMIIIII I WUV U

5 years ago

RISE UP MY FELLOW VOCALOID FANS

5 years ago

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

5 years ago

<3

5 years ago

I don't know if people can Aspire this artist tbh

5 years ago

Hokichi iPhong

Aspire doesn't allow songs after April 9th tho
So you can't even use this for aspire anyway

5 years ago

<3 my girl Hasoone Mikoo

5 years ago

noice !!!!

5 years ago

PogU

5 years ago

poggers!

5 years ago

Niceeee

5 years ago

cool

5 years ago

Nice header image.

5 years ago

Nice header image.

5 years ago

DrLou NekomusuMae

Nice header image.

5 years ago

LoxLoxLoxLox DrLou

Nice header image.

5 years ago

<3

5 years ago

wow

5 years ago

Best b-day gift, thanks!~

5 years ago

<3

5 years ago

wowwwwww nice nice!!

5 years ago

Log Off Now, the MIMI mapper.

5 years ago

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5 years ago

yo thats insane bro... finally some good music!!

5 years ago

Moko Genjuro

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

5 years ago

Remyria Genjuro

meh

5 years ago

t ctb Remyria

really isn't that good. all the featured artist songs aren't very good in my opinion. But I dislike almost every song on this game so my opinion really isn't that important.

5 years ago

Mili when

5 years ago

Yorushika when

5 years ago

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Yorushika when

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