BLACKPINK Songwriter Bekuh Boom Sells Publishing Catalog to Beyond Music

Seoul-based Beyond Music said on Monday (June 23) it bought the publishing rights to 33-songs by songwriter and producer Bekuh Boom, best known for her work with K-pop superstars BLACKPINK.

Boom, an American musician now releasing her own music as BOOMBBY, cowrote BLACKPINK hits “Kill This Love,” “DDU-DU DDU-DU,” “Ice Cream,” “BOOMBAYAH,” and “Pretty Savage,” songs that have each accumulated over half a billion streams on Spotify, according to Beyond.

Formed in 2016, BLACKPINK was the first K-pop girl group to top Billboard‘s Top Album Sales charts with their 2020 debut The Album. Featured on that record was “Ice Cream,” a 2020 collaboration with Selena Gomez, that became the group’s highest charting success yet, peaking at No. 13, and “Kill This Love,” which topped out at No. 41 in 2019.

One of Asia’s leading music catalog and data management companies, Beyond Music recently bought a stake in the copyright of BTS’ “Butter,” a chart-topper that spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 over the summer of 2021. While the terms of both acquisitions — for rights to the song performed by BTS and those written by Boom — were not disclosed, the deals cement Beyond Music’s presence as a major influencer in the future use of these K-pop megahits.   

“By acquiring rights to signature tracks from both BTS and BLACKPINK — two of the most iconic acts in K-pop — we’ve reached a major milestone in executing our global strategy,” Jinwoo Jo, CEO of Beyond Music, said in a statement. “It’s also an honor to invest in the work of Bekuh Boom, a world-class songwriter whose catalog continues to resonate with audiences worldwide. We look forward to supporting her future creative endeavors and building a long-term partnership.”

Boom has penned over 10 No. 1 K-pop hits for artists including Winner, Jeon Somi and TAEYANG, for whom she wrote the 2014 chart-topper “Eyes, Nose Lips,” according to Beyond Music.

Beyond Music previously bought the catalogs of Greg Wells, a Grammy-winning Canadian songwriter-producer whose credits includes music recorded by Adele, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Katy Perry and Quincy Jones, and Puerto Rican reggaetón star Yandel, whose catalog included his publishing interests and royalties, his share of performance royalties and neighboring rights royalties.