Sunday, May 27, 2018

Kpop Girl Groups Update April 2018

        It's time to update the blog again. Since I was on vacation this month, so the blog is a bit late than usual. But for April 2018, the girl group comeback is really interesting and much better than March 2018. Twice, GFriend, APink comeback around the same time, so there's a lot of competition as well.


Twice - What is Love

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Twice released their fifth EP with a same lead name single title track, What Is Love? on April 9.  So how popular is exactly this song?  TWICE's MV for "What is Love?" reached 20 million views at around 5:30 AM KST on April 11, about 35 hours since its release! This breaks the previous record held by Black Pink's "As If It's Your Last", which held the record at about 47 hours. 

                           

At live performance, TWICE achieved the highest score on SBS' 'Inkigayo' with "What is Love?"! On the April 22 episode, TWICE, WINNER, and Nilo were nominated for the first place. Ultimately, the JYP Entertainment girl group took the trophy home with a dominating score of 10,527. 10,527 is the highest score set on 'Inkigayo's current system. Not only this, the top 3 scores on 'Inkigayo's current system have all been set by TWICE.  "Signal" in second place with a score of 10,421 and "Heart Shaker" in third place with 10,236. 



Again, Congratulations, TWICE, they did what other girl groups couldn't achieve.







Apink - Miracle



APink has just dropped their 7th anniversary single, "Miracle," as a gift for their fans. Eunji co-composed the track, and Chorong penned some of the lyrics. 
"Miracle" is dedicated to A Pink's loyal fans, and the sweet MV features footage of the girl group spending time with Pandas at a concert. The release also commemorates APink's 7th anniversary of their debut.

 





GFriend - Time for the moon night

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 On April 30, 2018, GFriend released their sixth mini album titled Time for the Moon Night. The title song is also called "Time for the Moon Night"
Time for the Moon Night is more sentimental and dreamlike compared to GFriend's previous albums. According to member Umji, the group wanted to "set a new direction toward producing thought-provoking and sentimental music". The album's single of the same name has a retro sound reminiscent of Japanese anime soundtracks.
on the charts, GFriend's title track "Time for the Moon Light" debuts at No. 17 on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart. The group has three hits on the chart in "Navillera" (which peaked at No. 12 in 2016), "Fingertip" (No. 13 in 2017) and now 2018's "Time for the Moon Night."












EXID - Lady

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EXID returned with a single album Ladyon April 2, 2018, only promoting as four, however, due to Solji still recovering from surgery.The lead track for the album is entitled "내일해 (Lady)". On April 10, 2018, EXID won first place on The Show with "Lady". The whole song reminds me of the 90s hip hop style.










Lovelyz - that day

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On April 10, Woollim Entertainment announced that Lovelyz would release their fourth mini album titled Heal on April 23. The album consists of six tracks, including the lead single "That Day" composed by Sweetune.  Lovelyz earned their first music show win for "That Day" on SBS MTV's The Show on May 1












Gavy NJ -  People said break it up

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“People Said Break It Up (헤어지래요)” is a title track recorded byGavy NJ . It was released on April 01, 2018 by Good fellas Entertainment. 

For details about Gavy NJ and its long history, I won't write in details here, for people who are interested in about old kpop, please refer to article from Soompi:  https://www.soompi.com/2010/02/15/artist-of-the-week-gavy-nj-2/