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SEOUL March 30
(Yonhap) – It has been confirmed on Wednesday that SM Entertainment excluded
Lee Soo-man's name from the album credit (production crew list) of its singers.
It is interpreted
that SM Entertainment has begun to actualize the vision of "SM 3.0"
in earnest, breaking away from Lee Soo-man's exclusive production.
On the production
list of ONEW’s first full-length album "Circle," released on the 6th
of this month, the "Producer" and "Lee Soo-man" written on
the existing SM Entertainment singer's albums were removed.
Lee Soo-man's
name was also not found in the credit for KAI’s third mini album, which was
released on the 13th of this month.
The deletion of
the "producer" seems to have been made as of December 31 last year
when Lee Soo-man's private company Like Planning and SM Entertainment's
production license contract ended early.
As a result, it
is observed that SM Entertainment is moving from Lee Soo-man's
"one-top" production system to a "multi-production" system
after NCT 127's fourth full-length repackaged album released on January 30 this
year. In the case of NCT 127, Lee Soo-man was marked on the credit because the
production of the album began before the end of the contract with Like
Planning.
Lee Sung-soo and
Tak Young-jun, co-representatives of SM Entertainment, have unveiled their
vision of "SM 3.0" on YouTube on February 3 this year, proclaiming to
move away from Lee Soo-man's single executive producer system and move toward a
"multi-production" system.
SM Entertainment
plans to form the next management team through a regular shareholders' meeting
scheduled for the 31st to speed up the realization of "SM 3.0."
(This article is
translated from Korean to English by Yunhee Cho)
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