Psy’s upcoming album to feature YG artists

K-pop star Psy’s upcoming eighth album will feature notable artists from the singer’s agency YG Entertainment. 

The track list for Psy’s new album, “4X2=8,” unveiled Sunday, showed Big Bang’s G-Dragon and Taeyang, Tablo of Epik High, iKON’s B.I and Bobby and actress Lee Sung-kyung, all from YG Entertainment, participating in the album.

“Only YG artists have worked with Psy this time, while the singer’s seventh album in 2015 featured artists from other agencies such as Zion.T, Dynamic Duo and JYJ’s Junsu,” said an agency official.

Artists including Park Jin-young, Bobby, B.I, Tablo and producer Yu Gun-hyung, the composer of the mega-hit song “Gangnam Style,” have also participated in writing and composing the songs. B.I is reported to have participated in writing three songs on the album.

The album, which will be released at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, features double lead tracks “I Luv It” and “New Face,” according to the agency.

By Hong Dam-young (lotus@heraldcorp.com)