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- Jaeki Cho will host the 30-episode 'Greatest Song Ever Made' series launching September 11 on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, produced by Blink49 Creator Studios and Flavor Thing, the company Cho co-founded with Brian Lee.
- The series format asks artists, producers, chefs, athletes, and other cultural figures to choose one record, listen to it on camera, and argue why it deserves the title, built around the framing question 'what is the greatest song ever made?'
- Cho is a former music journalist who wrote for Complex and served as senior online editor at XXL; he produced the 2016 documentary 'Bad Rap,' which featured an early-career Awkwafina, and co-founded food platform Righteous Eats with Lee.
- Brian Lee previously founded Knocksteady, a Los Angeles music and digital content company that managed Anderson .Paak before Maker Studios acquired it, bringing years of digital-platform expertise to the partnership.
- Blink49 Creator Studios recently promoted unscripted chief Tara Long to oversee new ventures, with the creator arm also producing a New York Knicks championship documentary directed by Travon Free and the microdrama 'Murder at the Mansion.'
- Mickey Meyer, President of Global Creator Studios at Blink49, called the concept 'a simple, compelling idea' that can spark conversation with almost anyone, framing it as the kind of distinctive, entrepreneurial partnership the studio wants to build around.
Why it matters: The September 11 launch marks Blink49's continued push into creator-led, multi-platform short-form content after consolidating its creator arm under Tara Long, while giving Cho and Lee a built-in distribution pipeline across three of the largest music-adjacent platforms. The series' premise — one song, one guest, one on-camera reaction — is designed to scale into longer-form premium projects, a model that lets Flavor Thing graduate from viral music-video roots into sustained creator deals.
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