Audition in Singapore, other cities, for girl group to be formed by agency of K-pop stars BTS

SINGAPORE — Aspiring K-pop stars in Singapore are being offered the chance to try out for the big time.

Big Hit Entertainment — the agency that manages Korean boy band BTS — and its newly acquired label Source Music will be holding global auditions to find a new girl group, it announced on Wednesday (Sept 4).

The “Plus Global Audition” will include an Oct 12 audition in Singapore, as well as in 15 other cities including Seoul, Melbourne, New York and Bangkok, from Oct 5 to 27.

According to Soompi, a K-pop news website, the agency plans to debut the girl group in 2021.

On July 28, Big Hit announced that it had acquired Korean entertainment company Source Music, expanding Big Hit’s range of artists, reported Forbes magazine.

Big Hit said it had identified “high growth potential in the girl group category”.

The agency's current superstars, BTS, are the highest-paid boy band and K-pop act in 2019, according to Forbes, after taking home US$57 million (S$78.9 million) in pre-tax income over the past year.

BTS has performed twice in Singapore, most recently in January this year at its Love Yourself world tour, where the seven-member group played to a crowd of 45,000 at the Sports Hub.