Welcome to another edition of SB Week in Review. Here’s all the news you might have missed over the past week:
Headlines
HYBE and Universal Music Group (UMG) are expanding their partnership. UMG will have exclusive distribution rights of HYBE artists’ music for the next 10 years, and UMB artists will join HYBE’s platform Weverse. Former T-ara member Areum was hospitalized after attempting to take her own life.
Debuts & Comebacks
NCT Dream mixed it up with “Smoothie.” Keep an eye out for our album review!Illit showed how they are “Magnetic” with their debut.Ampers&One came back with “Broken Heart.”BoA returned with “Emptiness.”Davichi released their final comeback with WakeOne, “I’ll Be By Your Side,” fgRescene made their debut with “Uh Uh.”Super Junior D&E dropped “GGB.”Unis debuted with “Superwoman.”Tan encouraged us to dance with “Hypertonic.”Dynamicduo dropped “Pitapa”, featuring Ph-1 and Junny.J-Hope (BTS) collaborated with Yoonmirae and Gaeko on “Neuron.” Look out for our album review!ARTMS released the first of four singles, “Birth,” ahead of their May debut album.Bang Yongguk returned with two music videos, “Movimento” and “Bad” featuring Youha.
Teasers & Announcements
TXT will embrace their rock sound on Minisode 3: Tomorrow, out on April 1.Babymonster will also release their first album Babymons7er on April 1.Lucas will debut with “Renegade” on the same day.Nowadays‘ self-titled first single will drop on April 2.Bang Yedam will duet with Aespa‘s Winter on “Officially Cool,” out on April 2.Drippin’ announced an April 3 comeback with Beautiful Maze.Member Joo Changuk is currently taking a health-related hiatus.Kiss of Life will drop Midas Touch on the same day.I.M (Monsta X)’s 3rd mini-album Off the Beat will also drop on April 3.ILY:1 will release their 2nd digital single “IMMM” on April 4.Woo!ah! will make their return with “Blush” on April 8.ONF will reveal their Beautiful Shadow on the same day.DKZ will return with Reboot on April 12.Loossemble showed that they are One of a Kind with concept photos for their April 15 comeback. Onewe will come back with Planet Nine: Isotropy on April 17.TIOT will debut on April 22.Seventeen announced their “best album” 17 is Right Here, scheduled for an April 29 release.
Other News
Yukika announced that she and Minhyuk (Map6) had a baby girl. Congratulations to the couple!AOMG confirmed that their contracts with Gray, Woo Wong Jae, Lee Hi, and GooseBumps have expired.Super Junior‘s Ryeowook revealed that he and Tahiti‘s Ari will marry in May.Infinite‘s Lee Sungjong has ended his contract with SPK Entertainment. He is suing the company for unpaid compensation.
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