As we all know, SUGA and IU belong to two different labels. But recently, some ARMYs realized that SUGA and IU used to share a music distribution label. This makes many people surprised and curious about this reason.
The story is being spread on social networks and many people think that it is the chance that led to their collaboration:
SUGA and IU used to be a hot collaboration duo when successfully releasing the song "eight". With meaningful lyrics and catchy music, the song quickly topped the charts and the combination of SUGA and IU made netizens extremely excited.
Many people think that the two's cooperation comes from the fact that IU and SUGA are the same age and they are friends too. However, recently many people discovered an interesting point and thought that it could also be an opportunity to lead to a collaboration between the two. That's the fact that both IU and SUGA used to have the same label.
This may sound strange because everyone knows that SUGA is under the management of Big Hit Entertainment while IU previously spent 12 years as a singer under Loen Entertainment (Now it is Kakao Entertainment and IU has left the new company). But in fact, many years ago in the early stages of the debut, SUGA's label was Loen Entertainment, not Big Hit.
Specifically, this news was seen when a profile photo of SUGA displayed at Gwaneum Middle School in Daegu was noticed on Twitter along with the caption. It is known that the principal of the school that SUGA attended hung SUGA's profile on and described his career as an example of the success of the school's students.
The description includes information such as Suga's name, age, management company as well as how BTS was founded. In it, SUGA's Label agency is listed as Loen Entertainment and Big Hit Entertainment. Many people then wondered about this.
But in fact, the picture was hung about 5-6 years ago and at that time Loen Entertainment was a record label distributing music products of Big Hit artists. That's why SUGA is in the same company as IU when it's listed on the board.
In addition, if you look at BTS' first albums released like 2 Cool 4 Skool, you can also see that the distribution label is Loen Entertainment. Many ARMYs were very excited when they discovered this. Some also think that it is an opportunity to help SUGA and IU's collaboration many years later.
Meanwhile, many people explained that it may not be related because after leaving Loen Entertainment, IU only collaborated with SUGA. But there are also objections that IU brought her whole team while at Loen Entertainment to the new company, so it cannot be confirmed.
But anyway, their collaboration has made a special mark. "eight" is really a meaningful song for both IU and SUGA!