Meet the 20 Finalists for HYBE x Geffen ‘Dream Academy’ Global Girl Group Contest

Class is lastly in session for The Debut: Dream Academy.

HYBE and Geffen Data revealed Monday night (Aug. 28) the 20 proficient contestants from all over the world who shall be competing for a spot within the first-ever HYBE x Geffen Data world woman group.

The various group of younger girls had been chosen from greater than 120,000 submissions after HYBE and Geffen introduced the three way partnership — HYBE x Geffen International Woman Group Audition — in November 2021. The prolonged course of of making the group shall be documented in an upcoming Nadia Hallgren-directed Netflix sequence, which is able to delve into the journey to world stardom whereas together with perception into the intensive coaching and improvement program from HYBE and Geffen Data. The at present untitled sequence is about to premiere in 2024.

Within the meantime, the 20 contestants will take part in The Debut: Dream Academy audition program, which followers can comply with together with on YouTube and Japan’s ABEMA starting Sept. 1 at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT. After 12 weeks, the ultimate members of the group shall be chosen and the identify of the group shall be revealed on the reside finale on Nov. 17. Followers will play an important function all through your complete competitors through fan voting on Weverse and TikTok.

“I’ve wished to kind a global group based mostly on Okay-pop methodology for some time,” HYBE Chairman Bang Si-Hyuk shared at a press occasion in Los Angeles on Monday night time. “To do that, I believed we wanted a succesful accomplice. After I met [Interscope Geffen A&M Records CEO] John [Janick], from the primary second, we each felt immediately that we had a connection, musically and creatively. I’m very pleased with the wealthy historical past now we have made and the super expertise now we have discovered. I’m pleased with the alternatives now we have created inside the Okay-pop universe.”

For his half, Janick added: “Since we started our partnership two years in the past, Bang and I’ve usually spoken about our shared beliefs in artist improvement, music and creativity. To develop a worldwide group with Bang, with the perfect of Okay-pop methodology, and our Geffen group, is really particular and can carry to life a first-of-its variety expertise in music. Every candidate is extremely proficient, devoted, and pushed, making this an thrilling second for music followers all over the world.”

Geffen President Tom March added: “Watching these unimaginable candidates work so laborious to satisfy their potential creatively has been vastly inspiring to me and everybody at Geffen. Individuals are going to be blown away once they see what every of those candidates has been in a position to obtain to this point.”

What’s “extremely thrilling” about this new group, feedback Mitra Darab, president HxG, “is the muti-national, world nature of the artists. We reside in a world that’s so interconnected as of late and music is what breaks down the obstacles throughout languages and tradition.”

Beneath, in alphabetical order, discover the names, ages and residential nations of the 20 gifted contestants competing to be within the worldwide woman group.