{"id":14889,"date":"2021-10-22T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=14889"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:26:29","slug":"bts-changes-record-label-how-does-it-affect-the-future-of-the-k-pop-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-changes-record-label-how-does-it-affect-the-future-of-the-k-pop-band\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS changes record label; How does it affect the future of the K-pop band?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> terminated their <strong>Columbia Records<\/strong> and <strong>Sony Music<\/strong> Orchard distribution deal to partner with <strong>Universal Music Group, Variety<\/strong> confirmed. The news, first reported by Billboard; It is not yet confirmed by the representatives of the South Korean band.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information obtained, the license agreement will be with the Geffen division of UMG, with distribution by INgrooves.<\/p>\n<p>BTS through <strong>HYBE<\/strong> (formerly <strong>Big Hit)<\/strong> would have maintained a month-to-month contract with The Orchard and only needs to notify Sony of their intention to change distributor. Although Universal Musical Group already distributes BTS in other territories, such as Japan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Merca 20, BTS had signed with Sony for distribution in the United States in 2018, but HYBE&#8217;s CEO <strong>Bang Si-hyuk<\/strong> is known to be close to his Universal counterpart Lucian Grainge.<\/p>\n<p>However, it should be remembered that the Columbia record label is behind the great successes of BTS in their debut in the Anglo-Saxon market with <strong>\u201cDynamite\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cButter\u201d.<\/strong> In fact, Ron Perry, Ceo of Columba, is even a co-writer and co-producer of the band&#8217;s latest hit.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Although there is no confirmation in this regard; The possibility of this union had already been considered, after the rumor that BTS could continue its international scale towards the Spanish market, where it also has a large number of <strong>ARMYs<\/strong> (as its fans are known).<\/p>\n<p>Among the names that have sounded stands out that of <strong>J Balvin,<\/strong> who does not rule out that this collaboration may be possible in the future and is currently one of the talents registered at Universal.<\/p>\n<p>Other Universal talents include: 5 Seconds of Summer, <strong>Iggy Azalea, Billie Eilish, Drake, Justin Bieber, Karol G, Juanes<\/strong> and <strong>Sebasti\u00e1n Yatra,<\/strong> among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS terminated their Columbia Records and Sony Music Orchard distribution deal to partner with Universal Music Group, Variety confirmed. The news, first reported by Billboard; It is not yet confirmed by the representatives of the South Korean band. According to the information obtained, the license agreement will be with the Geffen division of UMG, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2988,"featured_media":14891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-14889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}