Chung Ha addresses future of shelved album ’Bare & Rare Pt.2’ upon split from longtime agency

nme.com:

K-pop soloist Chung Ha has written a heartfelt letter to fans addressing her recent departure from longtime agency MNH Entertainment and the future of her forthcoming album ‘Bare & Rare Pt.

2’.In March, K-pop agency MNH Entertainment announced that the soloist and former I.O.I member would be leaving the company following the expiration of her contract on April 29, ending their seven-year partnership.

At the time, the agency also shared that it would not be releasing Chung Ha’s album ’Bare & Rare Pt.2’ due to “internal circumstances.”Upon the expiration of Chung Ha’s contract this past weekend, the singer took to her fancafe website to upload a heartfelt letter to fans addressing her departure from MNH and the shelved album. ’Bare & Rare Pt.2’ was intended to be the second half of her July 2022 studio album ‘Bare & Rare Pt.1’.“After sharing the news that I wouldn’t be able to keep my promise regarding the release of ‘Bare & Rare Pt.

2,’ I didn’t know how to speak up to you all or from where I should begin conveying my apologetic heart, so after thinking lots, I am bringing it up like this now,” she wrote, per Soompi.“I’m really, so, so sorry for not being able to keep my promise to those who were waiting for the Pt.