Sunday, February 28, 2016

Kpop Girl Groups Update Feb 2016


            Today I will update my blog again. I think I miss the girl groups update for Dec 2015 and Jan 2016 because the concert and I changed the topic from last month. It seems like more people are interested in girl groups update instead of general news in kpop. So I decide to continue my old blog again.





Sucess of G-Friend

            G-Friend actually didn't make a comeback this month. But since they are too famous right now, so I will talk about them first. As the 2015 New Artist winner, they were considered one of the most successful rookie group from last year. 



But I never thought after they released their third EP "Rough", they could be that successful right now. On February 2, GFriend received their first music show win on The Show.The next day, they won on Show Champion, on February 4, they won on M! Countdown, and on February 5, GFriend won on Music Bank.They won on Inkigayo on February 7. GFriend took their first "Triple Crown" on the February 18 edition of M! Countdown. On February 19, they took their second "Triple Crown" on Music Bank. On February 24, they took their third "Triple Crown" on Show Champion. And they had over 10 wins already, which is one of the most successful comeback in recent years.(Only SNSD Gee and APink LUV had such successful result in recent year so far)....
        Right now, G-Friend is really in trend in kpop.....
                               














APink -  Brand New Days

              After the APink fever last month, APink starts to prepare their next single after their North America Tour.
            On February 25, the group released the music video to their first original Japanese song called Brand New days. The song is the opening theme song for anime Rilu Rilu Fairilu ~Yousei No Door~ . The song which was scheduled for release date of March 23 had been released early due to television airing of the song.
             A Pink Members Are Cute Fairies in MV for New Japanese Single “Brand New Days
           











WJSN(Cosmic Girl) - MoMoMo

                     Besides G-Friend's success and APink's new Japanese single, WJSN, also called Cosmic Girl would be another interesting girl group to look up this month.
                 Cosmic Girls (Hangul: 우주소녀; Chinese: 宇宙少女), also known as WJSN, is a twelve-member Chinese-South Korean girl group formed by Starship Entertainment and Yuehua Entertainment. They made their official debut with double title tracks Mo Mo Mo (모모모) and Catch Me on February 25th, 2016.
                 Since they are under Starship Entertainment, so they got support from SISTAR member.
Also fans call them as "Little SISTAR".Yuehua Entertainment is a Chinese agency which has few kpop idol groups under the label.
             













Mamamo - You're the Best

              Mamamo was considered one of the best K-pop debuts of 2014. And they had made strong comeback last year as well. At Feb 2016,
              On February 12, 2016, Mamamoo released "1cm" or "Taller than You", a hip-hop single from their 1st album "Melting".The full album came out on February 26, which also includes the hit single"You're the Best".



















       Besides those groups I list above, I will list the sexy style comeback in the next section.








Rainbow - Whoo

    

           After the disband of KARA, Rainbow definitely become one of the important girl group under DSP Media.After the "Black Swan" comeback from last year, Rainbow changes their style from cute to more sexy and mature, same as their old styles.In February 2016, Rainbow announced that they would comeback with their fourth mini-album Prism and the title track Whoo on February 15, 2016. Their fourth mini-album Prism and the music video for its title track "Whoo" was released on February 15











AOA Cream - I'm Jelly Baby

         After the heart attack comeback, FNC Entertainment's rep told OSEN on January 27, "Chanmi, Hyejeong and Yuna will promote as a unit group. They are planned to release a new song in February. We ask for a lot of anticipation." On the 31st of January they announced that the new sub-unit was called AOA Cream and that they would make their debut on 12 February. On the next day they released the teasers on their official page. The title track is "I'm Jelly Baby








Brave Girls - Deepened  

             Speaking of Brave Girls, they debut at 2011, and they were really active back in early days. However, since February 2014, Brave Brothers reported that he was going to be working on a full-length album for the group, but the album was put on hold indefinitely due to Brave Brothers working with AOA. Soon afterwards, the group went on hiatus until February 2016, when it was announced the group would be having a comeback as a seven member group later that month with five new members and returning members Hyeran and Yoojin












4TEN - Severely

     4Ten  formerly POTEN), commonly stylized as 4TEN, is a South Korean girl group formed in 2014 by Jungle Entertainment. The group currently consists of four members: Hyeji, Hyejin, Heeo, and Yun. So they basically changed their name from 4TEN to POTEN, then change the name back again, which confused me.
       In early 2016 it was revealed that member Hajeong has left the group. The group also return to promotion under name 4TEN with four-member. They have announced the release of their first mini-album, Jack of All Trades.





any questions about the new kpop girl groups comeback?...leave a comment and I will reply asap. Also I expect someone who knows boy groups a lot write the blog for boy groups version, that would be great...