Geffen Records Apologizes To ARMY’s Over Controversy About BTS’s Jimin

Recently, Jimin of the popular k-pop group BTS released the song from his second solo album ‘Muse’ titled, Smeraldo Garden Marching Band featuring Loco.

Ahead of the song release, an ARMY took to social media platform X, and tagged Geffen Records, BTS’s U.S. distributor, its parent company Universal Music Group, and Ray Kurzeka, senior vice president and head of streaming at Geffen and wrote, “Where are the iTunes pre-orders for Jimin’s ‘Smeraldo Garden Marching Band’ out next week June 28th? Also provide a EU version with no random inclusions in order to have a bigger impact on the UK Album Chart.”

To this, Ray Kurzeka responded by linking Gracie Abrams’ “us.” featuring Taylor Swift and writing, “song of the year…” This created a lot of outrage among the fans and  “GEFFEN APOLOGIZE TO JIMIN” started trending on social media.

On June 27, Geffen Records released the following statement:

‘An employee of our label issued a single post on his personal social media account in response to an inquiry from fans of Jimin. This was made by mistake and in no way reflects either the views of the employee or those of our company. Both he and the company are deeply sorry that this happened. The post does not comply with the company’s social media policy. 

Our compliance team is addressing this with him directly and implementing enhanced controls across the company to assure that it never happens again. As we address this matter, we request that fans refrain from any personal attacks. 

We wish to assure you that the scheduled release of Jimin’s second solo album, “MUSE,” will proceed as planned without any impact.’