“Artist Discovery, Now AI Finds and Plays Them First”… RIMA Entertainment Globally Launches ‘RIMA Star’ and Signals Entry into the Japanese Market

▶ Showcased to Japanese AI companies at NexTech Week Tokyo 2026… Signaling the expansion of its AI entertainment business into Japan ▶ Discovers independent musicians across 6 platforms and automatically generates composition briefs and AI demos ▶ Spreading ‘K-POP DNA’ to small and medium-sized artists and musicians

▲ RIMA Star's artist discovery and composition pipeline screen / Provided by: RIMA Entertainment

RIMA Entertainment (CEO Park Seong-hyeon) announced the global launch of its AI-based A&R pipeline, ‘RIMA Star’, and revealed that it introduced and demonstrated the service to local AI technology companies at ‘NexTech Week Tokyo 2026’ held in Japan.

RIMA Star is a web service that automates the early stages of the A&R process, from artist discovery to demo composition. When a user inputs a genre, keyword, or artist name, an AI agent searches for independent musicians across YouTube, CHZZK, SOOP, Twitch, Kick, and SoundCloud. It then ranks them by a ‘Launch Potential Score’ and generates a tailored composition brief and an AI demo track for each candidate. The final decisions, including talent evaluation and contracting, remain in the hands of the A&R team.

This demonstration serves as the starting gun for RIMA Entertainment’s AI-driven entertainment business to enter the Japanese market. RIMA Star supports five languages, including Japanese, enabling local labels and entertainment agencies to adopt the system immediately. The company plans to actively expand its collaborations with Japanese tech firms and agencies.

RIMA Star also plays a role in disseminating ‘K-POP DNA’ to small and medium-sized artists and musicians. Through composition briefs and demos built on K-POP planning and production expertise, artists who lack the production infrastructure of major labels can experiment with applying K-POP-style concepts and song structures to their own music. RIMA Star is available at star.rima.ai, and service inquiries can be directed to sf@rima.ai. Artists discovered through the platform can be seamlessly managed using the company’s management platform, ‘RIMA Lodestar’.

A representative from RIMA Entertainment stated, “RIMA Star is a tool designed to reduce the manual labor of searching for and listening to artists, allowing A&R teams to focus on evaluating talent and building relationships.” They added, “Starting with NexTech Week Tokyo, we will aggressively target the Japanese market and deliver K-POP DNA to small and medium-sized artists worldwide.”

리마엔터테인먼트 관계자는 “RIMA Star는 아티스트를 찾고 들어보는 수작업을 줄여 A&R 팀이 재능 판단과 관계 구축에 집중하게 하는 도구”라며 “넥스테크 위크 도쿄를 시작으로 일본 시장을 본격 공략하고, K-POP의 DNA를 전 세계 중소 아티스트에게 전하겠다”고 말했다.