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Warner Music Korea partners with Feelghood Music on BIBI

Warner Music Korea formed a global partnership with Feelghood Music to represent BIBI for worldwide release and promotion, timed to her single BUMPA and more than one billion streams in the past year.

Mina ParkUpdated June 12, 20262 min read
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BIBI's business orbit is shifting again. Warner Music Korea and Feelghood Music announced a strategic global partnership on May 19, 2026, with BIBI joining Warner's roster for global release and promotion of new music while staying managed by Feelghood.

Feelghood is the independent label and management company Tiger JK and Yoon Mirae founded in 2013. That detail matters: Warner is not buying out her camp. It is adding distribution muscle to a management relationship that already shaped her sound and persona.

The timing is not abstract. Warner tied the announcement to BIBI's single BUMPA, released May 20, a track fans had been requesting since a 2023 live tease. Warner puts her at more than one billion streams in the past 12 months, roughly 4 million monthly Spotify listeners, and a 2025 world tour across Asia, Australasia, and North America.

For listeners who found BIBI through algorithmic rabbit holes rather than chart headlines, the business layer still affects the next era: playlist placement, international marketing spend, and whether a cult favorite gets routed like a global priority act.

Warner's Korea push sits inside a wider APAC strategy. Recent moves include Jieun Kim promoted to President of Warner Music Korea, a partnership with management firm MAINSTREAM behind Lee Young Ji, and the MPLIFY English-language label aimed at international audiences. South Korea ranked as the world's seventh-largest recorded music market in IFPI's 2025 reporting, which is why majors keep partnering with indie Korean management shops instead of trying to replicate the domestic agency pipeline.

The partnership gives BIBI Warner Korea's global release infrastructure without moving her day-to-day management away from Feelghood.

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