JadiGini – In 2020, the K-Pop industry has successfully scored a number of great histories in addition to the star’s comeback routine. Now, a number of agencies have succeeded in making mega comebacks of their fostered idols, for example, BTS, Blackpink, and Twice as well as the debut teasers of Aespa and Enhypen and many more.
5 Biggest KPop Agencies
Then what about the top 5 agency plans this year? let’s look at our content today, the plan for the 5 biggest KPop agencies in 2021.
1. CJ E&M
Maybe you don’t realize that CJ Entertainment & Media (CJ E&M) is the parent company of several agencies and labels that nurture your idols such as Tiara, Davinci, CNBlue, Natty, IZ*ONE, Fromis_9 including Enhypen.
In 2021 CJ Entertainment & media under the auspices of CJ E&M will debut their boyband under a subsidiary called believe, which is a joint venture with Big Hit which has acquired the boy group Enhypen.
The agency that oversees the MNet TV station plans to promote the winning team of the Japanese version of Produce 101, the boy group J-ONE, to penetrate the South Korean market. Previously, in March 2020, this 11-member group had debuted in Japan and received an overwhelming response. Their debut single, Protostar, topped the Oricon Singles Chart and the Billboard Japan Hot 100 Chart.
2. Big Hit Entertainment
After collaborating with the CJ Entertainment & Media agency, Enhypen debuted at the Survival Island event in 2020. Now then in 2021, Big Hit plans to debut the contestants who were eliminated at the Island event to debut in a group.
This group will later start their career in Japan, before debuting and promoting worldwide. Those previously eliminated, namely Taki, Nicholas, Ijsei, Kay and Kyumin, were introduced at the end of 2020 on Big Hit’s official YouTube channel. Big Hit also informed that the new boy group will not only consist of five members, now Big Hit will add to the formation of members recruited through auditions, it is almost certain that they will debut in 2021.
Not only the Big Hit boy group sector through the source music label is also preparing to debut its new girl group, the members are from auditions plus the Global Audition which has been held in 16 cities around the world. The audition was held in October 2019 and attracted up to 50,000 girls aged between 13 and 19 years old.
3. JYP Entertainment
If in 2019 and 2020, JYP focused on forming the ITZY group as well as NiziU. Now this year the agency that oversees Twice is also planning to debut a new boy group that has not been confirmed in detail. In addition, JYP will also promote a Chinese boy group, now one of the confirmed members is Yao Chen, a member of a Chinese boy group called R1SE.
Yao Chen was previously a JYP Entertainment trainee, meanwhile the 2019 rookie girl group ITZY is also planned to release its first English album in the first half of 2021, this aims to expand the market and also ITZY fans globally.
4. YG Entertainment
The year 2021 seems to be a revival year for YG Entertainment, after slumping in 2019 and starting to rise in 2020, this year they are ready to launch a number of more diverse projects.
The first is the debut of the new girl group Baby Monster, which has been confirmed by YG Entertainment since March 2020 and in October 2020 it blew again, at that time a fan shared a photo of an Instagram post made by an insider who works at YG named Eskimo.
In the post, you can see a photo of a YG cup and a caption that says something is going on accompanied by the hashtag #can’t wait and 2 emoticons by and monster. YG booth is also sure that in 2021 YG Entertainment will soon debut Baby Monster. In addition, the legendary group Bigbang with a 4-member formation is also planning to make a comeback in the second half of 2022, more definitive news YG Entertainment has confirmed that Big Bang’s leader G-dragon is preparing for his solo comeback, while the other three members are TOP, Taeyang and also Daesung is taking a break before the group’s comeback is planned later.
While Blackpink and Treasure will continue to promote this year, Blackpink members will also be busier with their solo projects. Now if Jisoo will promote in Kdrama Snowdrop which will air this year, the other two members, namely Rose and Lisa, are said to be making their solo debut in 2021, even Rose after filming a music video in mid-January 2021.
5. SM Entertainment
After the agency added NCT members to 23 slots by the end of 2020, this number is believed to be increasing along with the formation of new sub-units based on region in the future. A representative from SM Entertainment, Lee Sung Soo, who was a performer at the business conference titled Come UP 2020 Meet The Future Fast The Mix, said NCT will expand membership expansion to various continents and countries. Lee Sung Soo will also SM Entertainment has future plans to enlarge NCT to Japan, Southeast Asia, America, Europe, Australia to Africa.
As a form of realization in 2021, NCT will have 15 new members so that the total NCT will consist of 38 members. Another big plan from this biggest agency is to establish a special school for aspiring stars, the global K-Pop arts education institution called SM Institute which is scheduled to start running classes in March 2021.
SM Institute aims to provide knowledge about talent development based on the success of Kpop culture around the world. SM Institute will also teach various languages to students at home and abroad who will become global stars. So, for those of you who want to be KPop idols, you can study here, who knows, right? Rafathar and Thalia Onsu will study there, right, hihihi.
So guys, there are a number of programs and plans for the 5 biggest agencies in the KPop industry in 2021, hopefully it can be realized according to the plan so that it can entertain Kpopers around the world. By the way, which agency’s plan are you really excited to use? hmm, write it down in the comments, guys.
