Who writes the songs: inside a Stockholm to Seoul song camp
A songwriter who has attended song camps for Korean agencies explains how a week-long camp works, how a demo becomes a title track and why so many K-pop hits begin in Sweden.
The comeback schedule: 30 days, hour by hour
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Thirty days before the song
A comeback looks spontaneous to a fan and is anything but. A former agency planner joins Farah to walk through a 30-day schedule from the first teaser to the first music show win, hour by hour.
- Why the first teaser drops at exactly that time
- Concept photos, trailers and the order they are released in
- The album pre-order window and how it feeds the charts
- Music show week and what a win actually requires
- Where fans fit into the schedule, deliberately
A blank version of the 30-day template is in the notes for anyone planning a release.
Transcript
Hello and welcome to Trainee to Stadium, I am Farah Nadhirah, and this is the K-pop industry explained from the inside, calmly, with no gossip. Today we are going to look at a comeback schedule, the thirty days between a group announcing a new song and that song winning a music show. To a fan it feels like a wave of surprises. To the people planning it, it is a spreadsheet with every hour accounted for. My guest used to build those spreadsheets for an agency in Seoul, and she is going to walk us through a real one, day by day: why the teaser drops at midnight, when the pre-orders open, and where the fans are placed in the plan on purpose. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.
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