Titan Content material, a self-described “multinational Ok-pop powerhouse” based by former SM Leisure CEO Nikki Semin Han, has formally launched with a purpose of rising the style’s attain on the worldwide stage.
Los Angeles-headquartered Titan Content material, which has a presence in Seoul as properly, emailed Digital Music Information at present about its formal rollout. Billing itself as “the primary U.S.-based music firm completely dedicated to the thriving Ok-pop style,” Titan says it intends to work in the direction of “bridging the hole between East to West enterprise and inventive expertise.”
Past growing artists and media in pursuit of the target, the start-up has set its sights on increasing “to quite a lot of festivals and types” in the long run. Additionally within the pipeline for Titan, which has tapped “true luminary” Katie Kang as CEO, are initiatives designed to enhance elements of “conventional Ok-pop enterprise fashions” with Web3, metaverse, and synthetic intelligence buildouts.
Whereas concrete particulars concerning the latter in addition to totally different areas of Titan Content material’s operations are forthcoming, the Ok-pop enterprise additional disclosed an “preliminary seed spherical” led by blockchain funding agency RW3 Ventures and Stockholm’s Raptor Group, with Seoul-based Dreamus described as a “co-lead investor.”
Equally, although Titan hasn’t shed gentle upon the exact dimension of this elevate, it did determine as co-investors Animoca Ventures, “metaverse-native funding agency” Sfermion, Hayden Bell’s Bell Companions, Heros Leisure, Web3 VC Infinity Ventures Crypto, San Francisco’s Scrum Ventures, blockchain gaming firm Planetarium, and blockchain platform Avalanche.
Shifting to the manager aspect, the aforementioned Nikki Semin Han has signed on as Titan’s board chair, with 1Million Dance Studio’s Lia Kim as chief efficiency officer, former Prada gross sales head Guiom Lee as chief visible officer, and former SM Leisure exec Dom Rodriguez as chief enterprise officer.
In an announcement, Titan Content material’s CEO highlighted an bold imaginative and prescient for the enterprise’s potential towards the backdrop of a quick-expanding Ok-pop sphere.
“By connecting the East and the West, TITAN plans to guide the Ok-pop revolution on a worldwide scale,” elaborated Katie Kang. “Not solely will we make the most of our huge expertise and experience to develop and create beloved Ok-pop artists and types, we will even push the business ahead by way of savvy Web3 disruption.”
Titan isn’t alone in attempting to find worldwide Ok-pop outcomes and/or seeking to construct upon Ok-pop success in numerous genres. To make sure, the Exile Music proprietor Hybe earlier in November revealed the ultimate six members of the U.S.-based lady group, Katseye, that it fashioned in collaboration with Common Music Group (UMG).
Moreover, Sony Music-partnered SM Leisure is at present making a “British boy group,” SM controlling stakeholder Kakao has scored a Sony Music tie-up of its personal, and JYP Leisure over the summer season finalized a bolstered take care of UMG’s Republic.