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IU has confirmed her new album will be titled ‘LILAC’

  • Lucy Phillips
  • March 4, 2021

IU has confirmed the title of her forthcoming fifth studio album will be ‘LILAC’.

The K-popster has shared another teaser photo from the release, which confirms the record will drop on 25th March. You can check it out below.

IU 5th Album <LILAC>
2021.03.25 6PM(KST) Release#아이유 #IU#정규5집 #5th_Album#라일락 #LILAC pic.twitter.com/4fQCeyc6ih

— 아이유(IU) 공식 트위터 (@_IUofficial) March 3, 2021

Previously, IU has shared audio and visual snippets for the record, including teasers ‘BYLAC’ and ‘HILAC’.

IU 5th Album Objet Teaser ‘HILAC’
2021.03#아이유 #IU #HILAC pic.twitter.com/rh758TJg5b

— 아이유(IU) 공식 트위터 (@_IUofficial) March 1, 2021

IU 5th Album Objet Teaser ‘BYLAC’
2021.03 Coming Soon#아이유 #IU #BYLAC pic.twitter.com/I31yHXlNdM

— 아이유(IU) 공식 트위터 (@_IUofficial) February 25, 2021

The follow-up to 2017’s album ‘Palette’, it’ll be the singers first musical project in almost a year – after 2020’s ‘Eight’ with BTS’ Sugar and ‘Give You My Heart’ for the soundtrack to Korean drama Crash Landing On You.

IU is one of many artists who have found music removed from Spotify following a dispute between the streaming provider and Kakao M.

Songs from artists including Seventeen, MONSTA X, Loona, Apink, MAMAMOO, GFriend, The Boyz, SF9, Pentagon, CLC, Astro, Weki Meki, Golden Child, Cravity and VICTON, amongst others, disappeared from the service over the weekend.

Spotify followed the news with a statement claiming the releases had been removed after an agreement came to an end, telling NME that they’d “been working with Kakao M over the last year and a half to renew” but “despite our best efforts, the existing licensing deal we had with Kakao M (which covered all countries other than South Korea) has come to an end.”

They followed up by claiming that they “hope that this disruption will be temporary and we can resolve the situation soon”.

However, Kakao M has countered that with their own statement, claiming Spotify were the ones who chose not to renew, even after a request on Kakao M’s part to do so.

“Unrelated to our preexisting global licensing agreement with Spotify, Kakao M has been separately negotiating with Spotify regarding a domestic contract for the supply of music,” explained Kakao M. “Unrelated to the domestic contract, which we are still negotiating, we separately received notice of the expiration of our license on February 28, and we requested a renewal of our existing global contract.”

“Due to Spotify’s policy that they must proceed with the domestic and global contracts at the same time, our global contract has currently expired,” they continued. “We are currently continuing our negotiations about the supply of music.”

Spotify recently launched in Korea without the Kakao M catalogue, with a deal yet to be signed. “We are still talking with Spotify (about distributing our songs through their platform),” Kakao M’s spokesperson shared with The Korea Herald. Kakao M already own a popular streaming platform, Melon, for which Spotify’s new launch will be a competitor.

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