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Jul 13, 2021
JYP Entertainment will be creating a new boy group through Nizi Project 2, which they will conduct in partnership with Sony Music Japan.
During a press conference on July 12, JYP Entertainment s J.Y. Park and Sony Music Japan CEO Muramatsu Shunsuke announced that they would team up for the production of a new boy group.
This is the second time that JYP Entertainment and Sony Music will join hands to form an idol group. These two companies jointly made the Japanese girl group NiziU through the first season of Nizi Project.
(Photo : NiziU Twitter)
JYP Entertainment s New Boy Group to Be Created through Nizi Project 2 with Sony Music Japan
Posted : 2021-07-14 11:58
Updated : 2021-07-14 11:58
Park Jin-young, founder and producer of K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment, speaks during an online press conference, Monday. Courtesy of JYP Entertainment
By Dong Sun-hwa
JYP Entertainment, home to K-pop giants 2PM and TWICE, will again join hands with Japan s Sony Music to debut a new Japanese-speaking boy group in 2023.
The two companies, which gave birth to all-Japanese girl group NiziU through the first season of their audition program Nizi (Rainbow) Project last December, will kick off the second leg of the project and select the members for a new boy group.
All-Japanese girl group NiziU / Courtesy of JYP Entertainment