HYBE Corp., the Okay-Pop powerhouse behind BTS, and the U.S.’s Geffen Information are to carry their world woman group audition efforts to Netflix as a docuseries that may launch subsequent yr.
The 2 music firms introduced the 2024 collection and a companion-piece on-line present that kicks off on Thursday as their “The Debut: Dream Academy” strikes up a gear. Having begun the choice course of in November 2021 and screened some 120,000 submissions from younger ladies hopefuls from world wide, they’ve now narrowed the sector to only 20 candidates.
They hail from Thailand, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, the U.S., Sweden, Japan, Belarus, Switzerland, Slovakia, the Philippines and Korea.
Subsequent, followers can observe the contestants as they embark on the ultimate phases of the audition program. The content material will start to premiere on Sept. 1st at 8a.m. U.S. PDT on YouTube (world), and on Japanese broadcast channel Abema, and run for 12 weeks.
On the finish of the audition program, in November, the channels will turn out to be dwell with the intention to carry the announcement of the chosen group members and the identify of the group.
The three-year course of of making the group will even be the topic of the untitled Netflix documentary collection, directed by Nadia Hallgren (Netflix’s Emmy-nominated “Changing into”.) The collection goals to be a compelling portrayal of the journey to world stardom, together with perception into the coaching and growth program from HYBE and Geffen Information. Manufacturing is by HYBE, Interscope Movies and Boardwalk Footage.
The assembled closing group will even be built-in into the HYBE’s fandom platform, Weverse.
“The one-of-a-kind three way partnership marks the primary time a significant U.S. document label and a Okay-pop leisure chief have mixed their experience in artist discovery, and music manufacturing to assemble, develop, and introduce a world woman group not like another,” the 2 firms stated.
Additionally they declare that this system “represents the primary time a U.S.-based, actually world woman group can be created and modeled based mostly on the world-renowned Okay-pop coaching and growth system,” underneath which the contestants have been quietly coaching during the last yr in Los Angeles.
Nevertheless, it isn’t the primary time that the extraordinary Okay-pop mannequin has been exported. DR Music was behind the creation of Blackswan, an all-foreign woman group with members that hail from India, Senegal, Brazil and the U.S., however who carry out in Korean. One other, Exp Version was a boy band with all American members that launched in 2017, however which is no-longer lively.
Abroad recruitment is now routine and plenty of well-established Okay-pop acts corresponding to Blackpink embody a number of non-Korean members. Others actively courtroom particular abroad markets with spinoffs referred to as sub-units. Tremendous Junior M is a sub-unit of Tremendous Junior, which initially launched in 2005, with the M standing for Mandarin.
“I’ve wished to type a world group based mostly on Okay-pop methodology for some time. To do that I believed we would have liked a succesful companion,” stated Bang Si-hyuk, HYBE chairman.
“To develop a world group with Bang, with the perfect of Okay-Pop methodology, and our Geffen workforce, is actually particular and can carry to life a first-of-its form expertise in music. Every candidate is extremely gifted, devoted, and pushed, making this an thrilling second for music followers world wide,” stated Geffen’s chairman and CEO John Jannick.
