Zutter
Zutter is a weekly podcast that looks at Asian pop culture as an industry, reported from London. Each episode takes a single story from the Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai or Filipino entertainment business — a contract, a label's strategy, a tour or a chart — and explains why it happened using the numbers and documents behind it. It examines who paid for it, who profits and what much of the coverage got wrong. New episodes are released every Friday, with sources and companion articles available at zutter.co.uk.
Episodes
MAD TSAI INTERVIEW: From TikTok to a Record Deal
Labels offered him $1,000 for his masters after his first viral song. He said no, paid off his student debt with streaming royalties and spent five years building a pop career without a label. We sat down with Mad Tsai over tea in London, after the last show of his first European tour, to talk about the business behind the music: night shifts at a poke shop, a stolen song he never saw a penny from
BIGBANG 0 to 20: Twenty Years of the Boys Who Became Legends
This is the full BIGBANG story: the survival show, the song that changed what a Korean idol group was allowed to be, the Japanese dome years, the parts nobody wants to talk about, and the 20th anniversary comeback that's happening right now.No skipped chapters. No legend maintenance.
