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HYBE 2.0 diverges from the major-label blueprint in 4 key ways — will it work?

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Tatiana Cirisano
Record labels
music industry
HYBE
HYBE kicked off the month with new leadership and a new plan to bring the Korean entertainment company into its next era of growth. In a letter to shareholders , outgoing CEO Jiwon Park and new chief Jason Jaesang Lee were refreshingly open about HYBE’s past weaknesses as they laid out a plan to prepare for market shifts and bring the “K-pop system” to new genres and regions.
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The crumbling of music media is a disaster for the music industry

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Tatiana Cirisano
Music fandom
music journalism
Record labels
As a former music journalist, I can say that layoffs are somewhat to be expected when you work in media. Nobody gets into this industry looking for stability. But the past 12 months have felt especially grim, with a growing list of mass layoffs and complete shutdowns that includes Bandcamp Daily , MTV News , NPR , Vox Media, and Los Angeles Times , to name just a few.
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