Kpop Girl Groups Update August 2017 (First Half)

         Ok, I am back on track with the old routine. There are too many girl groups either comeback or debut at August 2017, so I will write two articles for that. All the well known ones are in part one, all the not well known ones are in part two.

SNSD 10th Debut Anniversay

         

        In early July 2017, Girls' Generation was announced to be releasing their sixth studio album in August 2017 to commemorate the group's tenth debut anniversary. The album, titled Holiday Night, was released on August 7, 2017. To promote the album, the group held a concert titled "Holiday to Remember" on August 5, 2017 at Olympic Hall.

       It's been two years since their last full album 'Lionheart,' and they're back again to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Their sixth album is stuffed full with 10 new songs, and includes the two title tracks "All Night" and "Holiday."Their two title tracks are from Girls' Generation's new 6th full-length album 'Holiday Night'. "All Night" is an uptempo dance song by kenzie about falling in love during a summer party. Seohyun also participated in writing the lyrics for "Holiday", which is about the girl group's feelings about their 10th anniversary holiday.

GFriend - Love Whisper

On 1 August 2017, GFriend released their fifth mini album, Parallel, with the title track "Love Whisper".The album contains eight songs, including the single "Love Whisper", and two instrumental tracks. It has sold over 60,000 physical copies as of August 2017. 

Parallel debuted at number 3 on the Gaon Album Chart, on the chart issue dated July 30 – August 5, 2017. The EP also debuted at number 10 on the US World Albums chart, on the week ending August 19. The EP debuted at number 5 on the Gaon Album Chart, for the month of August 2017 with 61,473 physical copies sold. Three songs from the EP entered the Gaon Digital Chart on the chart issue dated July 30 – August 5, 2017: "Love Whisper" at number 2;

G-Friend claimed their first #1 with "Love Whisper" on "The Show" at August 8th, then claimed their first #1 with "Love Whisper" on "Show Champion" at August 9th,then took the #1 trophy with "Love Whisper" on the August 11th week of 'Music Bank'!  Again, they won again on Inkigayo on August 13th.

Red Velvet - Rebirth

SM Station recently shared that Red Velvet will be participating in the remake of Yoon Jong Shin's song titled "Rebirth". This is part of SM and Mystic's Snowball Project, a mockumentary style variety show, featuring the girls covering one of their sunbae's tracks.

Original Version of this song at 1996:

Note: Who is Yoon Jong Shin? He's the singer and song writer, also the founder of Mystic Entertainment in kpop. Girl Groups B.E.G , Ga-In, veteran singer Uhm Jung Hwa were all artists under his company. At March 2017, SM Entertainment acquired Mystic Entertainment with bought 28% stocks from the company,becoming the company's largest shareholders, so there's no copy right issue here for Red Velvet.

Yoon Jong Shin , founder of Mystic Entertainment

9Muses - Love City

At the earlier time at 2017, 9Muses only have 5 members left, and Sungah taking hiatus to pursue her work as DJ.
On August 3, a repackaged version of Muses Diary Part.2 : Identity, titled Muses Diary Part.3 : Love City, was released. This edition contains of four tracks from Muses Diary Part.2 : Identity and two new songs including the title track "Love City"

DIA - Can't stop

DIA released their third EP titled Love Generation on August 22, 2017. The album contains twelve tracks, with the lead single titled "Can't Stop".

 DIA will be releasing 4 unique versions of their 3rd mini album 'Love Generation' - a regular version, a limited edition, subunit version 1 BinChaenHyunS version, and subunit version 2 L.U.B version. The album will contain 11 songs total, including their title track "Can't Stop". The full release of the album will be at 6PM KST, but they've dropped the MV ahead of time on Naver.

CLC - Where are you

         On July 11, CUBE announced that CLC will release a new album, with a completely new image different from the group's previous concept with "Hobgoblin". CLC released their sixth EP, Free'sm (a wordplay of "prism" and "free") on August 3. The album is inspired by 1990s girl groups Fin.K.L and S.E.S.. It consists of six tracks including the R&B ballad single "Where Are You?" (어디야?)

Sonamoo - Friday Night

On July 27, TS Entertainment revealed a teaser image for Sonamoo's “Happy Box Project” revealing that the group will be releasing a new single every month for the next three months. The first single Friday Night was released on August 14. The rap portion of the single is written by NewSun