{"id":93428,"date":"2023-11-06T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=93428"},"modified":"2023-11-06T08:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:13:30","slug":"the-btob-boy-band-parted-ways-with-cube-entertainment-after-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/the-btob-boy-band-parted-ways-with-cube-entertainment-after-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The BTOB boy band parted ways with Cube Entertainment after 11 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 6th, through an official statement, <strong>Cube Entertainment<\/strong> confirmed the boy group <strong>BTOB<\/strong> would <strong>leave<\/strong> the agency. The announcement explained that &#8220;<em>careful discussions were held with the members over a long period of time, and as a result, we decided not to renew the contract by mutual agreement<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, BTOB&#8217;s Seo Eunkwang, Lee Minhyuk, Lee Changseop, Lim Hyunsik, Peniel, and Yook Sungjae end their decade-long relationship with Cube Entertainment, a rather long run since their <strong>debut<\/strong> as a K-Pop group on March 21st, 2012.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1721413391078621652\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CUBE Entertainment confirms the news of BTOB leaving the agency, saying their contract has expired and they decided not to renew it<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p3CQARYmCp\">https:\/\/t.co\/p3CQARYmCp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UYh1RTxJOw\">pic.twitter.com\/UYh1RTxJOw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Seoul Story (@theseoulstory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1721413391078621652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cube also shared a special <strong>dedication<\/strong> to the boys: &#8220;<em>We send our thanks to BTOB, who showed performances that made us proud and will continue to do so for a long period of time, as well as to the loyal fan club &#8216;<strong>MELODY<\/strong>&#8216;, who was always supportive and gave strength to the boygroup<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between the successful company and BTOB idols seems to have ended on good terms, as the announcement mentioned: &#8220;<em>We will sincerely <strong>support<\/strong> the new growth and bright future of BTOB members who have unlimited potential. Please send unchanging love to the group who will start another journey<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 6th, through an official statement, Cube Entertainment confirmed the boy group BTOB would leave the agency. The announcement explained that &#8220;careful discussions were held with the members over a long period of time, and as a result, we decided not to renew the contract by mutual agreement&#8220;. Thus, BTOB&#8217;s Seo Eunkwang, Lee Minhyuk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":93444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-93428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93428","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}