CO Entertainment

**CO Entertainment** is a South Korean entertainment agency founded on February 2034. Formerly known as "FSW Entertainment" & "Wonder Music".

It's home to idol groups such as CXC, LIGHTZOOM, HEAT(열).

## History

### 2034-2044: Foundation and First Generation Artists

FSW Entertainment was created after merging all subsidiaries "FOREVER Entertainment", "SERZ Label", "WOOJIN Records Entertainment" into FSW. Coed-group "RAIN" from (FOREVER Ent) and boy group "CROWN" from (WOOJIN Records) became artists for FSW Entertainment. After the merger FSW debuted their 1st girl group" STAYZ " a mine member group with a bubblegum concept which proved to be successful due to their impressive sales & digital dominance in the domestic market. Unfortunately, the group disbanded less than a year on 2035 due to internal conflicts with some of its members and company CEO not liking the concept of the group in general.

A year after the disbandment of STAYZ, FSW debuted their second girl group Prism on March 4,2036 consisting of five former members of STAYZ. A sub-unit consiting of Shui & Lea "S&L" from coed-group RAIN made their debut on November 11,2036. Prism within six months after debut disbanded, all the members stayed with the company and would not re-debut until two years later with new two members as CXC On March 7,2038. Their debut was extremely successful and well received by the public and the group would become of the best selling artists under FSW. July 5, 2039 it was announced that Rosé a soloist and a member of girl group Blackheartz had joined FSW as their newest solo acts. On July 10, 2039 FSW announced the disbandment of their boy group CROWN a year earlier than expected and announced that all the members would be staying and pursue individual activities. After 8 years since the last boy group to debut, FSW debuted their new boy group HEAT(열) on April 2040.

On October 5, 2040, FSW announced that all the members of CROWN had left the company after failure to come renew their exclusive contracts and would pursue their activites with other labels. On December 2042,RAIN disbanded due to internal conflicts with the company and all of its members terminated their exclusive contracts and left FSW. On March 3,2043 FSW announced that they will be partnering with Sony Music Korea for their artists music distribution domestically and internationally via Sony Music Entertainment. FSW Entertainment will remaind under Wave Plus but for its printing and creative design team for their arists albums. Yuna Rim member of CXC made her solo debut on September 9, 2044. FSW Entertainment announced the launch of their acting management agency "FSW Act" where trainees Shio Kim and Nanami Yoon would become the company first actress.

### 2045: Rebranding to "Wonder Music" & "CO Entertainment", Debut of New Generation Artists

FSW Entertianment announced on January 10, that they would be changing their company name to "Wonder Music" to better fit the componay mission to provide wonderful and enjoyable music via their artists under their wing. Wonder Music announced on March 20 that they had brought the 55% of shares owned by their parent company Wave Music Entertainment thus making them a full owners of the label. Thus, Wonder Music will no longer be a subsidiary under Wave Music Entertainment & Wave Music Labels. They will still maintain a close partnership with music video and album design teams with Wave Plus and other music content with WM itself. On January 15th, Wonder Music announced that they would be re-branding again from "Wonder Music" to "CO Entertainment" due to the fact many people confuse them with Wave Music. On September 6th, CO Ent debuted their newest girl group MIXIK. CO announced the creation of another sub-label CO-M Entertainment which would focus on debuting and promoting their boy groups. CO Entertainment announced the creation of their subsidiary CO-W Entertainment for the creation and management of their girl groups. CO Entertainment announced the opening of both a Japanese (CO Japan Records) & Chinese (CO Music Star). On September 3,2050, CO confirmed the debut of two new groups for the upcoming year a girl group called “SLAYER” and a boy group called “TEMPTATION”.

## Current Artists

### Current Artists

* CXC (2038-Present)
* HEAT(열) \*(2040-Present)
* LIGHTZOOM (2046-Present)
* KOKI (2046-Present)
* SLAYER \*
* TEMPTATION \*

\*-Under CO-M Entertainment

### Former Artists

* STAYZ (2034-2035)
* Prism (2036-2038)
* CROWN (2033-2039)
* RAIN (2030-2042)
* Nanami Yoon (2044-2046)
* Shio Kim (2044-2047)
* Rosé (2039-2047)

## Partnerships & Location

### Partnerships

Wave Music Entertainment used to own WM from (February 2034 - March 2045) but is currently in charge in providing WM artists with album creative designs and music video productions.

Sony Music Korea in charge of distributing FSW Artists music domestically and internationally via Sony Music Entertainment.

### Stocks and Ownership

CO Entertainment formerly known as FSW Ent was fully owned by Wave Music Entertainment until Mid 2045 after the CEO bought the stocks owned by Wave. Currently, CO is a fully independent label.

## Controversies & Mistreatment

CO Entertainment is mainly known for their constant mistreatment of their artists/groups. Many fans note, that CO usually tends to give up on groups/artists that don’t perform well or produce enough revenue for the company. Despite, getting better at managing their few artists fans still believe there’s a long way to go for the company to perfect their management skills.

Some of the controversies that CO Ent has faced was the sudden disbandment & lack of proper payment of funds to coed group RAIN.