{"id":2278874,"date":"2026-02-12T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2278874"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:48:34","slug":"sm-entertainment-reached-new-q4-heights-with-16-6-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sm-entertainment-reached-new-q4-heights-with-16-6-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"SM Entertainment reached new Q4 heights with 16.6% growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-262612\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>SM Entertainment is one of the \u2018big four\u2019 K-Pop powerhouses in South Korea \u2013 the others being Hybe, JYP Entertainment and YG Entertainment \u2013\u00a0and it continues to prosper as South Korean music surges worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2025 this week, reporting record revenues of KRW 319bn ($221.8m at current exchange rates). That was up 16.6% year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This growth was about international success as well as domestic strength. Global tours from artists including NCT Dream, Aespa, Riize and NCT Wish were key factors in SM\u2019s performance, as well as growth in merch and licensing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The company said it expects the good times to continue this quarter, with new releases from Exo, Irene, Hearts2Hearts and NCT JNJM as well as the ongoing 20th anniversary tour of K-Pop veterans Super Junior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn2.smentertainment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/11152627\/4Q25_CEO-Message_Script_Eng_vF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In remarks for analysts<\/a>, CEO Cheol-hyuk Jang also talked tech. \u201cAI is not intended to replace creativity, but to serve as a tool to enhance production efficiency and decision-making,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy applying AI across the content production process, we aim to reduce time and costs, while leveraging data analysis to deepen our understanding of fans and markets, enabling more sophisticated decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section>\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SM Entertainment is one of the \u2018big four\u2019 K-Pop powerhouses in South Korea \u2013 the others being Hybe, JYP Entertainment and YG Entertainment \u2013\u00a0and it continues to prosper as South Korean music surges worldwide. The company announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2025 this week, reporting record revenues of KRW 319bn ($221.8m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[312023,23842,50696,306168],"class_list":["post-2278874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-financials","tag-k-pop","tag-sm-entertainment","tag-south-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SM-Entertainment-reached-new-Q4-heights-with-166-growth.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278876,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278874\/revisions\/2278876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}