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<\/a><\/p>\nThe 2026 BIGHIT MUSIC GLOBAL AUDITION pairs an online application process with in-person auditions in 15 cities across North America, Asia, and Oceania.<\/p>\n
It is open to any male born in or after 2008, regardless of nationality or place of residence, the label said on Monday (September 14).<\/p>\n
BIGHIT MUSIC has set no restrictions on performance categories and says applicants can pick whichever discipline they want to be judged in.<\/p>\n
Online applications will be accepted through the official audition website<\/a> from September 14 to December 5.<\/p>\n The in-person auditions run from October 3 to December 5 and require no prior registration.<\/p>\n They will be held in Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Vancouver, Toronto, Tokyo, Osaka, Bangkok, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Jakarta, Taipei, and Seoul.<\/p>\n \u201cWe welcome all applicants who are pursuing their dreams. We hope for active participation from people who can show their own individuality and talent across a range of fields,\u201d BIGHIT MUSIC said in a statement translated from Korean.<\/p>\n BIGHIT MUSIC is the label behind BTS, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, and CORTIS.<\/p>\n It is one of the HYBE MUSIC GROUP labels run by HYBE, which was itself called Big Hit Entertainment until 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cWe welcome all applicants who are pursuing their dreams. We hope for active participation from people who can show their own individuality and talent across a range of fields.\u201d<\/p>\n BIGHIT MUSIC<\/p>\n CORTIS, a five-piece<\/a>, debuted in August 2025 \u2013 the label\u2019s first new boy group in six years.<\/p>\n The group has passed 5 million cumulative album sales across its first two mini albums, according to HYBE\u2019s Q2 2026 earnings release<\/a>.<\/p>\n The second of those, GREENGREEN, has sold more than 3 million copies and reached No. 3 on the Billboard<\/a> 200, HYBE said.<\/p>\n BTS returned in March with its fifth studio album ARIRANG, which ranked No. 1 in US vinyl and CD album sales in the first half of 2026, according to Luminate<\/a>\u2019s 2026 Midyear Report.<\/p>\n HYBE said albums by its artists accounted for five of the 10 best-selling CD albums in the United States over the same period.<\/p>\n The company posted revenue of KRW 1.45 trillion (approximately USD $967 million) in the second quarter of 2026, in what it said was a record result driven by the BTS WORLD TOUR \u2018ARIRANG\u2019.<\/p>\n The BIGHIT MUSIC search lands during a run of talent hunts across the K-pop business, as previously reported by MBW<\/a>.<\/p>\n HYBE opened a nationwide talent search in India on March 31 to assemble a new girl group, taking applications until July 31 from girls born between 2005 and 2011.<\/p>\n RETOPIA SALON, a company set up by former HYBE executives, announced auditions across 18 cities in April for a boy group it plans to debut in 2027.<\/p>\n SM Entertainment<\/a>, the company behind aespa, NCT, and RIIZE, has been running a 2026 global audition spanning 21 locations worldwide after its South Korean leg.<\/p>\n HYBE has been exporting the training-and-development model behind BTS into other markets.<\/p>\n KATSEYE, its first Western girl group, was assembled with Universal Music Group<\/a>\u2019s Geffen Records through the Dream Academy audition, which drew 120,000 applicants.<\/p>\n Through HYBE Latin America, the company has also produced a Latin boy group, SANTOS BRAVOS.<\/p>\n