The South Korean music group BIGBANG member Choi Seung-hyun, popularly known as T.O.P has parted ways with the group and YG Entertainment ahead of the group’s coming back this spring.
BIGBANG’s upcoming comeback will mark their first new music in four years since the release of “Flower Road” in March 2018. “BIGBANG will be releasing a new song this spring,” said the group’s agency in a statement and #BIGBANG has been trending on Twitter since then.
“[BIGBANG] has already completed recording their new song, and they are currently preparing to shoot the music video,” the agency added in its statement.
T.O.P had joined the record label YG Entertainment and debuted as the main rapper for the boy band BIGBANG in 2006 and the agency announced that he would be leaving the agency after 16 years.
“T.O.P’s exclusive contract with YG has ended, and he will be taking on a wide variety of new challenges as both an artist and an entrepreneur,” stated YG Entertainment.
“We respected T.O.P’s desire to broaden the scope of his individual activities aside from just his promotions with BIGBANG, and he successfully came to an agreement about this with the other members,” read the statement further.
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