K-Pop's Non-K Producers: How The Stereotypes, Diplo, Skrillex, LDN Noise & More Lean Into Korea
Greg Bonnick and Hayden Chapman started 2018 by receiving personalized plaques to their London studio apartment for their contributions on two platinum albums. Known professionally as LDN Noise, the duo has worked on records for Nick Jonas and Chris Brown but this package was for producing and writing on EXO 's Ex'act and The War -- albums by the Korean boy-band phenoms that spent a week or less on the Billboard 200 but sold more than a million each worldwide. "We get people and fans from all over the world connecting and interacting with us," the pair tell Billboard of their K-pop experiences that include a line of LDN Noise merchandise and their thousands of Twitter and Instagram followers sending the guys playlists featuring their songs. "The profile of K-pop is being raised around the world through the incredible international fan base -- songs are charting, streaming and gaining more views than ever before so artists, labels and songwriters
