StarSign Entertainment

Previously a sub-unit under GlowStar Entertainment, StarSign Entertainment has made a huge impact to the Korean Pop Industry. GlowStar Entertainment had made a decision to make a sub-label for boy group and male soloists. But everything had came crashing down on GlowStar Entertainment, as controversy became lawsuits. The CEO of both companies had left, and shutdown GlowStar and terminating all contracts under GlowStar Entertainment. This was when StarSign became a independent label. Debuting 4 groups, Verivi, Ethereal Flower, Sisters, and Candy, they all had huge success. StarSign even had their own show called "Finding Petrichor" were trainees from all over the world, come and compete to debut as a 6 member co-ed group called Petrichor. The show hasn't finished yet.

**History**

The company was founded on October 25th, 2020 by the same CEO from GlowStar Entertainment. They wanted this sub-label to be made for boy groups and male soloists. This was when 12 trainees went under StarSign Entertainment to form Verivi. Only 7 out of the 12 trainees made it to debut in Verivi. When Verivi debuted, it was a decent debut, as it was only 1 song. It didn't bring in a lot of money though. Four days after Verivi debuted, controversy happened, when dispatch revealed security footage of the CEO mistreating all of their idols and staff in both GlowStar and StarSign Entertainment. This caused a lot of court cases, making the CEO leave, and shut down GlowStar Entertainment. A new CEO rose, taking charge of StarSign Entertainment. During all the controversies, it made Verivi grow in popularity, making a lot more money than they did when they debuted. It even made them win Rookie of the Year in 2020 on Kpop Story Music Awards. During this time, the CEO wasn't confident in Verivi because of the controversies, so the CEO began accepting new auditions to form there new girl group, and this girl group was, and still is the biggest group to ever happen to StarSign Entertainment.

During forming the new girl group, StarSign Entertainment gave Verivi their first and last comeback, which was only one song titles "School" ranking higher on the charts since their debut, but the company didn't have enough funding to keep Verivi going so they haulted all group and solo activities on Verivi. The new girl group originally called Flower, the CEO decided to change the group's name to Ethereal Flower, before they announced and debut them. When Ethereal Flower Debuted, they had huge success, more success than Verivi, and the company decided to prioritize Ethereal Flower, leaving Verivi behind. Ethereal Flower grew more and more, people also started to forget about Verivi. At the end of 2021, Ethereal Flower won huge awards, ultimately deciding to disband Verivi, 2 weeks after disbanding Verivi, StarSign announced a new girl group called Sisters, which was more girl crush and rap heavy. This was the first controversy the CEO has experienced because netizens believed that StarSign disbanded Verivi to debut a new group, and were angry. This also grew hatred towards Sisters because netizens thought of that, making their debut not as successful, but still huge. Sisters' debut was bigger than Ethereal Flower's debut. The controversy died down, causing Sisters to grow their fanbase. Sisters also won a lot of awards because of the huge growth. At the end of 2022, StarSign Entertainment revealed a new girl group that was set to debut on January 2023. This is the biggest debut under StarSign Entertainment. The girl group called Candy debuted and topped charts, and even getting wins as soon as their debut. The CEO of StarSign Entertainment thinks that Candy will be the biggest act under their company. During April of 2023, StarSign announced that they will be having their own show called "Finding Petrichor." This was a huge announcement in the public eye because this was going to be their first ever co-ed group. People were excited because this was going to be the first act to have male idols since Verivi. The judges on the show also has idols from Ethereal Flower and Sisters, as well as the CEO. StarSign had their second controversy with the new CEO, a fan of Ethereal Flower, and Sisters posted a tweet saying that there had been no updated on both of the groups for 6 months, and the tweet went viral with over 105 thousand likes. The CEO quickly responded, apologizing to fans about it and promised that they will be arranging times for their idols to post on social media. Later on, the company had finished the show "Finding Petrichor" with their official debut lineup with 3 female members and 3 male members. Two months later, StarSign Entertainment was hit with a huge controversy, the voting manipulation of Petrichor. A staff member who worked for the show, had came out with a statement accusing 2 members of Sisters, An Sarah and Choi Tiffany of changing the numbers of votes a contestant had. The post went viral, getting over 65.4k likes and the company soon went into investigation about the statement. It was all true, and as a punishment, they immediately terminated the exclusive contracts An Sarah and Choi Tiffany had, they banned them from going to any events the company or it's artists were having, and they had them blacklisted. Because of this punishment, it made fans of Sisters and Petrichor worried for the future of the groups. After discussions with all the members who were in Sisters and Petrichor, they all decided that it was the best to disband.