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It’s tough being a K-pop stan.

Just when you fall in love with a group, they can suddenly break your heart and disband.

While there are so many incredible girl groups and boy bands in the South Korean music scene, there’s also fierce competition. Exclusive contract deals for groups often expire in less than a decade’s time – seven years to be exact, typically.

It’s pretty common for members of groups to go solo after their contracts expire, or pursue new opportunities, like acting and TV hosting gigs.

As a result, we have some major K-pop groups up for potential disbandment in 2024, and at least one that has already renewed without some members.

Find out which groups are potentially disbanding in 2024, and what one group did after their contracts expired…

It’s not easy being a K-pop idol, and sadly, several K-pop groups are likely disbanding for good this year.

While there are so many incredible girl groups and boy bands in the South Korean music scene, there’s also fierce competition. Exclusive contract deals for groups often expire in less than a decade’s time – seven years to be exact, typically.

It’s pretty common for members of groups to go solo after their contracts expire, or pursue new opportunities, like acting and TV hosting gigs.

As a result, we have some major K-pop groups up for potential disbandment in 2024, and at least one that has already renewed without some members.

Find out which groups are potentially disbanding in 2024, and what one group did after their contracts expired…

It has been revealed that certain K-Pop artists are no longer on Spotify, according to NME.

The site is reporting that reason is because Spotify is in discussion with distributor Kakao M.

Spotify officially launched in South Korea earlier this month, but did so without music from artists with licensing deals under Kakao M.

Kakao M’s catalogue would no longer be available to users around the globe from March 1, 2021 “due to the expiration of our license,” a statement on the site says.

“We have been working with KakaoM over the last year and a half to renew the global licensing agreement, so that their artists’ music would remain available to Spotify’s 345M+ listeners in nearly 170 markets around the world,” they added. “Despite our best efforts, the existing licensing deal we had with KakaoM (which covered all countries other than South Korea) has come to an end.”

“The fact that we have not yet reached agreement on a new global deal is unfortunate for their artists, as well as for fans and listeners worldwide. It is our hope that this disruption will be temporary and we can resolve the situation soon. We remain committed to working with local rights holders including KakaoM, to help grow the Korean music market and overall streaming ecosystem together.”

The artists affected by this deal include CL, The Boyz, GFriend, Epik High, IU, Cherry Bullet, Cravity, Mamamoo, Nu’est and many more.

Seventeen was another big group affected by this, and a fan Twitter revealed that the group have lost nearly 1billion streams after their music was removed from Spotify.

Stay tuned for updates on this…