Big Hit Entertainment, better known as the agency of BTS, has held a press conference where the CEO of the company, Bang Si Hyuk, informed us about the developments within the company and their future schedule. Bang Si Hyuk was reminiscent of the legendary Steve Jobs in one of the past Apple press conferences. It is really exciting to see what a sophisticated and far-reaching company Big Hit Entertainment has turned into!
First, he mentioned about the financial standing of the firm in the first half of 2020. They earned a whooping amount of 248 million dollars in revenues and 42 million dollars in profits. We must admit this is a well-deserved sum of money.
Next, Si Hyuk announced that they will introduce new groups. As we know, in 2019, TXT debuted. In 2020, I-LAND program, which is a reality show focusing on the creation of a new k-pop group, will produce a new boy group in the process. After that, a new girl group to be created in cooperation with Source Music will be coming in 2021 and another new boy group in 2022. He emphasized that the members of the new girl group will be coming from diverse backgrounds and languages.
Third, he made us go crazy with the news that BTS will introduce a new album in the last quarter of 2020. Woooow!
In addition to BTS, he glorified other groups of the company, which involve SEVENTEEN, NU’EST, TXT and GFRIEND.
Following, he introduced TinyTAN, which is the animation featuring cute animated characters created in inspiration of BTS members.
Finally, he announced a new mobile rhythm game featuring all Big Hit Label artists.