u/Many-Ad-9007

I am interested - since the groups that have done stadium tours have done it (Twice/SKZ) or doing it again (BP/BTS) and since then we have LOTS of discussions of who can potentially do similar sized tour.

I am not talking about multiple days at arenas or a few stadium shows among many in the whole tour (nothing to scoff at, if you can get many people to come more than once to your concert, that itself is a strength) but getting 40-80k of people to come to even one concert, that is another level.

Last time we have so many potential names we have named - interestingly SKZ is the youngest to be in the list and 3 others are from 3rd gen, and as yet as of now, no one else is announcing any similar type of tour other than BTS again.

One thing to note - SKZ IS doing another tour at the end of the year - will we see another stadium tour or will they scale down like Twice to multiple dates arena?

So far only BP and BTS have done multiple stadium tours (honestly both are a different level in kpop itself - so it is difficult to use them as a yardstick in kpop).

Now the real question is - with what is happening all over the world, in this kind of economy, will we get a new group to do a stadium tour? Who can potentially do it? It is almost 1 year since SKZ joined the stadium tour list and there is yet no new groups entering the list other than BP/BTS doing another one.

Will this mean that kpop company will stop doing the dynamic pricing nonsense that pushes ticket pricing to the stratosphere? Will ticket pricing level back to acceptable range? Will another group announce a stadium tour? Interestingly, can either Enhypen or Seventeen also do a stadium tour (not just Asia, but all over the world)? What about LSF/IVE? Or do you guys have more/others in mind? Or Ateez?

Edit: Let me clarify - I am talking about 2026-2028 stadium tour, not in far distant future and I am also talking about a tour as in at the very least 50% of the dates are stadiums, so it will be majority of the dates are stadium not just 1-2 or a few.

When I say ‘guide song’ it is related to songs made by the producers as guide to idols for recording and in this context specifically, guide songs made by idols themselves.

I know that most guide songs that are not made by idols themselves are usually songs purchased or worked by many producers, especially ones bought outside Korea from non-Korean producers (either Swedish or Western producers primarily) so these guide songs are usually either made by the producers themselves or artists they hire to make the guide.

However, idol producers like GD, 3RACHA, Woozi, Soyeon etc - who are one of the primary producers of their songs, may have recorded those guides themselves. Based on my personal observation of Stray Kids behind the scenes videos for their albums, all of their songs guides are recorded by 3RACHA. For example Han and Chan will almost always take the vocal parts and Han and Changbin will do the rap parts and then they distribute the parts to other members.

There are also instances that some parts from the guide itself is used in the final product itself based on what 3RACHA has said. It never fails to impress me how much work they put into making a song from scratch to the guide song to directing the recording itself.

Now, I am very interested to hear the original guide songs and I do wonder if these idol producers who make all these guide songs, it is even possible to release some of these guide songs. I know it can be controversial as kpop like to make a controversy out of nothing as there is possibility of comparison between the guide version vs the final version.

However, I do wonder, is it even a possibility to release at least a few of these guide songs? No need fancy promotions, just an online release for purchase - I mean, SKZ Records is already a free song release by SKZ on Youtube (though I hate that it is limited to Youtube only).

What do you guys think? Is it feasible? Will there be others who are interested enough to hear the ‘original’ version by these idol producers?