K-Pop Competition Series Starring Psy & Megan Thee Stallion Ordered At Apple With EP Lionel Richie

Peter White

5 February 2025 at 6:00 pm·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ is getting deeper into the K-pop business.

The streamer has ordered a new competition series set in the popular music genre starring “Gangnam Style” artist Psy and Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion, with Lionel Richie as executive producer.

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Kpopped is an eight-part series that sees Western icons reimagine one of their biggest hits, collaborating with top-tier K-pop idols to deliver battle performances, with a live Seoul-based audience picking the winner of the best new song.

It comes from CJ ENM, the Korean company behind Fox’s I Can See Your Voice and Oscar-winning movie Parasite, and Eureka Productions, the Fremantle-owned company behind series such as Netflix’s The Mole and Fox’s The Floor.

Exec producers include Richie, Moira Ross, Miky Lee, Megan Thee Stallion and Greg Foster, alongside Harry H.K. Shin and Jake Hong, and Eureka’s Chris Culvenor, Paul Franklin, Wes Dening and David Tibballs and Bruce Eskowitz.

The series marks Apple’s second foray into the unscripted competition space after it launched country music series My Kind of Country, created by Reese Witherspoon and Kacey Musgraves and hosted by Mickey Guyton, Jimmie Allen and Orville Peck, in 2023.

The streamer dipped its toes into the K-pop world with docuseries K-Pop Idols last year. The six-part series followed the lives of K-pop stars Jessi, Cravity and Blackswan.

Megan Thee Stallion, who will perform her song “Savage” on the show, previously appeared in series such as Max’s voguing competition series Legendary.

Richie, meanwhile, is a longtime judge on American Idol. Psy has worked on series such as Heroes of Remix and Loud.

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