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Produce 101 was a South Korean television program produced by Mnet. It utilized an audition format to identify one hundred female singing trainees who competed for positions within the temporary girl group I.O.I. The show’s innovative ranking system based on viewer votes significantly influenced K-p...

Boys Planet is a South Korean reality competition series broadcast by Mnet in 2023. It brought together Korean and international male trainees who performed in missions and were evaluated through a voting system involving viewers in multiple countries. The nine highest-ranking finalists formed the t...

Create 101 is a Chinese female idol survival show that premiered on Tencent Video in 2018. Adapted from the South Korean Produce 101 franchise, the series brought together 101 trainees from various entertainment companies to compete for a spot in a new idol group. The final 11 winners, selected by a...

I-LAND is a South Korean reality survival competition that aired in 2020, co-produced by CJ ENM and Big Hit Entertainment (now Hybe) under their joint venture Belift Lab. The show followed 23 male trainees who lived and trained together in a specially designed complex, competing through multiple rou...

Produce 101 Japan is a reality television survival competition that premiered in 2019, functioning as the official Japanese adaptation of the South Korean talent franchise. The program was jointly produced by Yoshimoto Kogyo and CJ E&M, featuring 101 trainees who competed through various singing and...

Produce 101 Japan Season 2 is the second installment of the Japanese adaptation of the Produce 101 idol survival format, produced through a collaboration between Yoshimoto Kogyo and CJ ENM. The 2021 competition featured male trainees selected from an initial pool of contestants competing through aud...

Sixteen was a 2015 reality survival program co-produced by JYP Entertainment and Mnet, in which sixteen female JYP trainees competed for positions in a new girl group. The show ran from May to July 2015 and concluded with the formation of TWICE, though the final nine-member lineup was expanded beyon...

Youth With You was a Chinese idol survival series produced and streamed by iQIYI, with contestants receiving training and competing for places in a temporary music group. Different seasons featured male or female trainees, and advancement was shaped substantially by audience voting alongside evaluat...

Girls Planet 999 was a 2021 South Korean survival competition broadcast by Mnet. It brought together 99 female trainees divided equally among Korean, Chinese, and Japanese groups, who completed vocal, dance, and performance missions while competing through viewer voting. The nine finalists debuted a...

"Nizi Project" is a 2020 Japanese-Korean reality competition and survival audition show. It was co-produced by South Korean entertainment agency JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Japan to form a new J-pop girl group. Directed by JYP founder Park Jin-young, the program evaluated trainees from Japan on...

South Korean reality series following SM Entertainment girl group Girls' Generation, offering behind-the-scenes access to the daily life and activities of one of K-pop's most prominent acts.

WB Network pop group formation competition that aired in 2001, among the earliest of its kind in the US, resulting in the formation of the group Eden's Crush.

South Korean YG Entertainment survival show aired in 2017–2018 selecting male and female trainees, though the announced winning groups never officially debuted.

ABC competition series that aired in 2017 in which male solo singers competed before industry insiders to be selected as members of a newly formed boy band.