Kpop Girl Groups 2016 Review (Second Half)

           So this is second half of the blog.....

         July

             At July 2016, there were more sexy concept girl groups comeback such as Wonder Girls, f(x), Hello Venus, Stellar, Melody Day, D.Holic, PPL. Among them, I would say Wonder Girls comeback lead to some discussion, but not other groups.

Also at the same time, some girl groups use old school kpop single as their comeback song, which leads to some copyright issue as well, such as Oh My Girl, C.I.V.A

Speaking of Girl group of the month:

  (On June 29 2016 , Source Music started teasing for GFriend's first studio album LOL, signifying at the same time "Laughing Out Loud" and "Lots of Love". LOL was released on July 11 with the title track "Navillera" , and reportedly had more than 60,000 pre-ordered copies worldwide.On July 19, GFriend earned their first music show win for the album's single "Navillera" on The Show. Until July 29th, GFriend earned 7th win already on various music program.
           " Navillera"  is a reference to Cho Chi-hun's poem "The Nun's Dance" , and is a phrase used to describe a fluttering action similar to the movement of a butterfly.The song's lyrics describe a girl's feeling of wanting to fly like a butterfly to be with the person she loves
          Influence:  The album was a commercial success in South Korea, reportedly selling more than 60,000 physical copies in pre-orders before release. It entered the Gaon Album Chart at number three, while "Navillera" topped the Gaon Digital Chart. "In the United States, LOL charted at number seven on the Billboard World Albums chart, while "Navillera" was number 12 on the World Digital Songs chart.)


                   So girl group of the July is GFriend

  August

            Some big news in August includes disband of Sunny Hill, other girl groups comeback include I.O.I , Spica,  Brave Girls,  Bambino ,WJSN, Laboum and few other small girl groups.
            The biggest news in August would be debut of YG's next girl group Black Pink.

     Yes, after many YG kpop fans' waiting for years, YG Entertainment's new girl group Black Pink officially debut this month.
              The group consists of four members Jisoo from  Korea, Jennie from New Zealand, Rose from Australia and Lisa from Thailand. Among them, Lisa was the first non-Korean member under YG Entertainment. So they have the exactly same number of members as 2NE1, their last very successful girl group

First non-Korean artist under YG Entertainment Lisa

They debuted with two singles, "Boombayah" and "Whistle", from their single album           Square One on August 8, 2016. Both songs ranked well after debut. Whistle ranked No 1 on Korea chart and Boombayah ranked No 1 on US World kpop chart as well. And both MV also pass 10 millions very easily, becomes a hot topic and trend in kpop as well.

   If you listen to their new songs carefully and their new image, each member in Black Pink tried to imitate someone in 2NE1,especially Jennie imitates CL, spotted by lots of kpop fans.

BlackPink Jennie Kim VS 2NE1 CL

Can Black Pink eventually catch up and becomes the next generation of 2NE1 ? I'm not sure, they just start, so we will see. But from here, we can see kpop girl groups are really competitive nowadays, Black Pink maybe another girl group will join the 1st tier girl group competitioin..

                So girl group of the August is Black Pink.

September

      At September 2016, there's a trend of many kpop boy groups comeback at the same time, Infinite, 2PM, SHINee almost made comeback exact the same time. During the boy groups comeback wave, there are still quite a few girl groups comeback as well, Russian Roulette from Red Velvet is a pretty strong one, Crayon Pop, DIA, Mamamoo, Dalshabet all made comeback this month.

        But the best one is still:

According to wikipedia, their  third full-length Korean album was released after one year and two months on September 26th with the name of Pink Revolution including title song "Only One"On the same day, they held a showcase which was broadcast live through V-live. "Only One" topped seven music charts in Korea just a few hours after it was released. During the showcase, leader Cho-Rong stated that Pink Revolution would incorporate a new sense of Apink's growth and maturity since debut, while Eun-ji explained that Apink will begin to focus on making complex and beautiful music, rather than tracks that "are simply fun and catchy."

         What does this mean???..so APink will abandon their old innocent and cute image, which is how APink is different from the rest of other girl groups.

                So girl group of the September is APink.

October

        Because of the CL concert and the huge popularity of Black Pink, so instead of talking about girl group at October, I write a special topic about YG girl groups.  And during this time, Black Pink was indeed really famous.
           But everyone who listen to kpop probably know who is the most popular kpop girl group:

       I'm like TT....Just like TT...

 So girl group of the October is Twice.

                                     November

        At November 2016, there are quite a few pretty strong comeback this month, T-ara, Mammoo, few small groups also made comeback such as Berry Good, Badkiz ,new debut girl group Momoland
           Speaking of the winner of this month:

        Blackpink released their second single album Square Two with the lead singles "Playing with Fire" and "Stay" on November 1, 2016. The songs are similarly produced by Teddy with R.Tee and Seo Won Jin. They performed their comeback stage in SBS Inkigayo on November 6 and in Mnet M!'Countdown on November 10, 2016. "Playing with Fire" was their second single to hit number one on the Billboards World Digital Songs Charts
          Afer Twice's TT trend, Black Pink's "play with fire" quickly became few No 1 place on various music program. In less than 4 month, Black Pink already released 4 hot top singles already, some of  their  MV views are over 50 million already as well.



             So girl group of the November is Black Pink.

                                 December

       I didn't write the blog for last month December either, but very few groups comeback during holiday season. Laboum and Twice Christmas season song is quite decent, compare to them, APink did a good job on Cause You are my star, so I would say


       So girl group of the December is APink

So in the end, let me make a conclusion here, who is the most popular kpop girl group at 2016?

First half year: Jan  APink,  Feb  GFriend   Mar  Red Velvet  April  Twice  May  AOA   June  Sistar

Second half year: July GFriend  Aug Black Pink  Sep APink  Oct Twice Nov Black Pink  Dec APink.

so based on my article, APink won 3 times,  GFriend, Twice, Black Pink all won twice. But APink doesn't face strong competition as other 3 girl groups during their comeback month.  And GFriend had record breaking wins at the first half of the year, the popularity of Twice Cheer Up and TT song,and the second half year Black Pink almost dominates kpop girl groups for almost 3 month.

So APink, GFriend, Twice and Black Pink, which one would you vote as the most popular kpop girl group in 2016 ? and why?