 On November 23, Cube established a new label, U-Cube, with Universal Music Japan for activities in Japan.It was reported that Cube's sales in 2018 increased 46.7% year-on-year to ₩35.8 billion.During the same period, operating profit jumped 809.3% to ₩1.9 billion and net profit turned to profit of ₩1 billion due to the success of BtoB's album sales and concerts, Pentagon's "Shine", (G)I-dle's debut and Lai Guan-lin's activities.