GOT7’s Yugyeom Says He Struggled Financially Despite the Group Having Successful Comeback During COVID-19 Pandemic

GOT7’s Yugyeom just lately revealed that he confronted monetary struggles throughout the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, regardless of the group reaching important success on the time.The revelation got here throughout an interview on the College of Southern California as a part of Billboard’s Artist Highlight collection, the place the idol mirrored on his private challenges and shared recommendation with college students.Yugyeom disclosed that throughout the pandemic, he had no particular person schedules and was left to rely solely on group actions. As the first breadwinner for his household, this lack of labor brought on him appreciable monetary stress.”Financially, I am the breadwinner of the household proper now, however there was a time after I did not have any cash. In the course of the pandemic, I did not have any work. I used to be all the time my checking account,” he stated.This got here as a shock to followers, given GOT7’s high-profile comebacks in 2020, together with their EP Dye and studio album Breath of Love: Final Piece, which broke gross sales information for the group. Followers had been fast to query how such monetary difficulties may happen, particularly since GOT7 was beneath JYP Leisure on the time, considered one of Ok-pop’s “Massive Three” businesses.”Did JYP rip-off them? When the pandemic hit, they nonetheless had a comeback, and that was considered one of their highest gross sales,” one on-line consumer wrote. “JYP additionally restocked their previous albums, and YG wrote many well-known GOT7 songs, so he ought to get royalties.”Yugyeom famous that he turned to creating music and choreographing dance routines with buddies to deal with the dearth of labor throughout the pandemic. These actions paved the best way for his transition to AOMG after leaving JYP Leisure in 2021.GOT7 has not disbanded. Though the group terminated its contracts with JYP Leisure in 2021, they continued to function as a group regardless of members becoming a member of totally different businesses. The group launched its new mini-album “WINTER HEPTAGON” on Jan. 20.