Reality-TV contest K-pop Goes Hollywood to pick ‘all-American boy’ for a new group
- K-pop Goes Hollywood will be the title of a reality-TV competition series in which American contestants vie to fill one spot in the line-up of a new group
- SM Entertainment, which will launch the new group, NCT Hollywood, will make the show in Korea with the producer of US TV singing contest The Voice
NCT is going Hollywood, literally: the popular K-pop group will pick its next member from America through a reality TV competition series called K-pop Goes Hollywood, the band’s label, SM Entertainment, has told the Post.
The series, stylised in all capitals except for “goes”, is a collaboration between the South Korean entertainment company and American media company MGM Television, producer of popular programmes including The Voice, a reality singing competition series shown on American network NBC.
NCT is a 23-strong boy band whose members sometimes perform together but mostly appear in subgroups such as NCT Dream, NCT 127 and WayV.
“We are looking for one winner for this season, but some details of the show are subject to change throughout production,” said a representative of SM C&C, the label’s production company.
Contestants on K-pop Goes Hollywood will be selected in the United States and flown to South Korea to train and compete for the chance to become a K-pop star. During last month’s SM Congress event, label bosses said they were looking for an “all American guy” to join NCT.
NCT’s first singles, The 7th Sense and Without You, performed by NCT U, a subgroup with a rotating line-up, were released in 2016. Since then, the band have jointly released three albums featuring all the current NCT members, in 2018 and 2020.
Last year’s Resonance was the most recent release to feature all the currently active members.
NCT Hollywood would be the fourth official subgroup under NCT.
SM says additional projects are set to arrive from NCT U.
