On Celebrating 5th Anniversary since our Debut and Our Future Plans

On March 16, 2017, with the release of our song Best Part of Us, we AmPm, began to form our so-called artist persona. We mentioned in the previous post that we never planned to become musical artists from the beginning and, of course, never imagined that we would last five years.

As a result, these past five years will remain as a fact, and looking back, we were able to gain what we could not have experienced in the first place. The encounters with artists and other various people through our music works will remain as an asset that we will be proud of forever.

If we think about that, five years is a long time, and over time, we imagine that it will become thicker and more profound. On the other hand, we don’t know how long we will be able to continue our music activities, but we are sure that an unimaginable future awaits us.

During these five years, we had to adapt to changes in the world regardless of our will, and we also needed to deal with many new ideas and greed. We tried to balance out and make things work. We also feel that the time we have spent so far has been like the early years of preparation for our career.

During this period of preparation for our career, what we want to do and what we need to do are finally coming into shape, and we are starting to understand how we can make these happen.

If it were during our first five years, we would not have been able to come up with these plans, or even if they happened, they could have ended up as a one-shot deal.

As we have spoken in the interviews in the past, traveling has been a significant factor in the formation of AmPm. As a result, we were able to collaborate with many artists, but we haven’t been able to connect any of the dots.

With the pandemic that has restricted our actions and our five years of experience, we believe we are in the process of regaining the means to make connections. One of the answers we came up with is to release an album based on the concept of traveling.

We are currently working on it with the concept of “Travel without moving”.

The form of album is a means to convey an artist’s worldview. I think we could have released an album in the past if we wanted to, but we were unclear about how to shape that worldview, and we didn’t release any album. We believe that this is the answer that we were able to derive from the period we spent under preparation.

As staying overnight is one of the essential elements of travel, we, AmPm, is also hoping to move toward “hotel construction,” which has been our biggest dream and goal since our debut. However, we need a different way to express it because construction, in reality, requires a lot of funds.

We aim to construct a hotel in the metaverse space, which has become a business buzzword. We see the possibility of being able to do this as well, as the external environment has changed significantly over the past five years. This doesn’t mean that we have given up on construction in the real world; it’s about making it happen first in a different world.

Among several platforms, we chose The Sandbox and intend to pursue hotel construction. We will purchase land, and build and construct our buildings there. This is easy to write, but it will be a long road ahead. The first step will be to study VoxEdit and raise funds to purchase the land.

We are beginning to initiate an effort with NFTs, including some experimental elements. Regarding selling music, we are honestly still exploring how to proceed and sell it, given that a copyright system similar to the traditional one has not been fully established.

We are currently in the process of releasing the second song in the form of our music in the form of limited listening rights, in which we sell the right to listen to unreleased sound sources. Of course, we would like to continuously be active in this field to complete creating the album’s worldview.

In the future, we may release some unreleased sound sources in the so-called metaverse world. Or, we may express and shape the NFT works differently in a more meaningful way. In any case, we will continue to express one worldview just like we do in the real world.

As for the NFT works, it is unknown to what extent they will be recognized, but we will prepare songs that we put in great effort to produce, like those already released in the real world. The revenue from these will be used for hotel construction in the metaverse. For that reason, we won’t be able to make our dream come true if they don’t sell well, which will motive us to do our best.

In the real world, we will do our best to release many songs and perform concerts. Even in the Metaverse world, we will release many NFTs, build a hotel and work hard so that you can come to visit. As we continue to cycle through these activities, you may be able to see who exactly AmPm is.

Just as we ourselves were unclear about who we were at the time of our debut, we hope that these activities will help people understand and consequently enjoy the world we envision and regard it as some kind of support for them.

Even if we think that we can see it now, there can be many challenges once the album is finished; NFT series is finished; or hotel construction is completed or in progress.

We stopped halfway through the five years since our debut. We asked ourselves many times about the meaning and significance of our existence and continuity. Yet, we haven’t accomplished anything yet.

Honestly, maintaining and continuing our activities is very difficult; We continue because it is the path we have chosen as a way to achieve our dreams and goals.

As long as we are in control of deciding whether to stop or not, we will continue.

Until there comes the point where we absolutely can’t continue, we will continue.

It is actually a fortunate just to be able to think about such things after debuting. We wouldn’t have this change in our hearts without the past five years.

What we accomplish comes from sympathy and recognition from many people. When we do, we share the joy with many people, not just keeping it between the two of us. We have the ticket to that possibility in our hands, which is why we would like to use it as motivation and carry it over to our future activities.

Somehow this post turned out to be so long.

We will be sharing information about our activities on “AmPm Deliverling” to be released on the 16th of every month. For an overview of our activities in 2022, our 5th year, please watch this Trailer clip.

First and foremost, all of you who have listened to our songs made it possible for us, AmPm, to continue our activities for five years. We are also very grateful to all the creators who came along and collaborated with us. We will do our best to leap forward and increase this gratitude every year.