Compared to October, there are more kpop girl groups debut or comeback at November, also there is a new trend which is called Virtual Reality or AI concept starts to appear in kpop since last month.
Aespa - Black Mamba
On October 26, SM Entertainment announced that it would be debuting a new girl group, the first since Red Velvet in 2014. The members were revealed individually from October 27 to 30 (in order: Winter, Karina, Ningning, and Giselle) as well as the name aespa. SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man further explained about aespa's concept in the 2020 World Cultural Industry Forum that was held online on October 28. A video trailer with all four members was revealed on November 2. On the same day, the agency announced that aespa will release their debut single "Black Mamba" on November 17. The group made their broadcast debut on KBS2's Music Bank on November 20 where they performed their debut single. The group also reached number one on the K-pop music video charts of China's biggest music-streaming service, QQ Music for three consecutive week.
So what is so different about Aespa from all the rest of kpop girl group before, check out this video
Yes, this group actually have 8 members, not 4. They are Winter, @-Winter, Karina, @-Karina, Ningning, @-NingNing, GIselle, @-GIselle. The other 4 members are actually virtual members, not real human.
From here, I want to say this is a very bold move for SM Entertainment, and this group remains lots of mystery so far, and people know SM Entertainment didn't debut any girl group after Red Velvet since 2014, they invest a lot for this group.
Some of my thought and knowledge about this concept:
1 Notice this group also had 4 members, with similar concept with the current most popular girl group Blackpink
2 There was also a virtual girl group called K/DA exist based on popular video game League of Legend, and they have very similar concept to Aespa.
3 Virtual Girl group is not a brand new concept, in J-pop there are virtual singer, girl group exists before. And in Taiwan, the virtual girl group exists back in early 2000s already. But this is first time in kpop as well, I would expect to see more of similar group in the near future like this.
Mamamoo - Aya
After Dingga, Momamoo continue of their success in November as well. "Aya" was released as the second single from Travel on November 3, 2020, in conjunction with the release of the full EP. The single peaked at number 37 on the Gaon Digital Chart, number 21 on the Billboard Korea K-Pop Hot 100, and 17 on the Billboard World Digital Songs Sales chart. On November 19, "Aya" earned its first and only music show win on Mnet's M Countdown. As of December 2020, the music video for "Aya," posted simultaneously to Mamamoo's official channel and the 1theK distribution channel, has a combined total of 34.6 million view
GFriend - MAGO
On October 12, it was announced that the group would make a comeback with their third studio album, 回:Walpurgis Night on November 9. The album was released on that day along with the music video for the lead single "Mago"
The song debuted at number 17 on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales and peaked at number 16 a week after. It debuted as well as number 46 on Billboard's K-pop Hot 100 for the week ending November 21, 2020 The song also placed at number 3 on the componing Download Chart and number 83 the week of the release of the song on the componing Streaming Chart.
Momoland - Ready or Not
On November 17, 2020, the third single album Ready or Not, with the lead single of the same name was released. South Korean singer Psy participated as a lyricist on the song.
Secret Number - Got That Boom
Earlier this year, I talked about this group and their debut single was a huge success among those new group. On October 22, the agency announced that the group would make their comeback with their second single album Got That Boom on November 4. Also there's another reason why I check out this group, one of my dance trainer in ED is also the trainer for this group as well.
Stayc - So Bad
This is brand new girl group, so I will briefly introduce them here as usual. Stayc is a 6 member kpop girl group debut on Nov 12th under High Up Entertinment. They also released their debug single album
"Star To A Young Culture" on the same day.
Woo!ah! - Bad Girl
This group debut earlier this year, so I won't introduce this again here. The group is The group made their comeback on November 24 with their second single album Qurious. Originally a six-member group, Songyee left in August 2020 due to personal reasons.
Note: There is another group called BOL4, but that group had only one member left, the number of group members cannot form a group anymore, so I will not write about them.
Compared to September, there are around same number of kpop girl groups debut or comeback at October.
Blackpink - Lovesick Girls
Blackpink released their first Korean studio album, The Album, with "Lovesick Girls" as the third and main single on October 2, 2020. Leading up to the exclusive video premiere of their music video "Lovesick Girls" just 15 minutes before midnight ET, Blackpink featured in Youtube's new original music show Released as the show's first featured artist, in which included "unfiltered access" moments of the group. The Album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and the UK Album Chart, making Blackpink the highest-charting Korean female act on the charts.The album also set a first-week album sales record for a Korean girl group, reaching roughly 590,000 copies sold in just one day after the release date of the physical album. Blackpink became the first-ever million-selling K-pop girl group with The Album, selling approximately 1.2 million copies in less than a month after release.
Blackpink's first documentary, Blackpink: Light Up the Sky, premiered on Netflix on October 14, 2020 and covered the four years since the group's debut in 2016. The documentary included footage from their training days, looks at their home lives, behind-the-scenes stories, and interviews with the members. If you haven't watch, you can find the documentary on Netflix.
On October 21, Blackpink appeared on the American talk shows Good Morning America and Jimmy Kimmel Live! via video chat to promote their debut studio album's third single, "Lovesick Girls", in the United States
Twice - I Can't stop Me
Besides Blackpink, the most well known cameback is Twice for Octorber. Twice released their ninth Korean-language EP More & More in June 2020.The EP was a commercial success in South Korea, selling over 550,000 copies and becoming the group's best-selling album. Following the success of More & More, JYP Entertainment announced that Twice would be releasing their second Korean studio album, Eyes Wide Open in October 2020, to commemorate the group's fifth anniversary. On October 11, the group shared the track-listing of Eyes Wide Open, where "I Can't Stop Me" was revealed to be the album opener.
Hours after the song and the album's release, on October 26, 2020, Twice held a live meeting called "Twice 'I Can't Stop Me' Special Live" on Naver's V app and YouTube, introducing songs from the album and communicating with their fans. To promote the song and Eyes Wide Open, the group appeared and performed on several South Korean music programs, starting with Mnet's M! Countdown on October 29, where they performed "I Can't Stop Me" and "Up No More". They also appeared on KBS2's Music Bank, MBC's Show! Music Core, MBC M's Show Champion, and SBS' Inkigayo, to perform the song. In the second week of promotion, "I Can't Stop Me" won the top spot on Show Champion on November 4.
Behind Blackpink and Twice, it's the competition between YG Entertainment and JYP Entertainment as well.
Weeekly - Zig Zag
The group released their second EP We Can on October 13, featuring the title track "Zig Zag". 'Zig Zag' is a track that talks about the daily life of a teenager and their growth. It is expected that while listening to the track, fans would be able to witness their never ending charm as if they were riding a rollercoaster and they will be making use of the cube as part of their performance.
Weki Meki - Cool
On October 8, 2020, Weki Meki released their fourth EP, New Rules, featuring five songs, including the title track "Cool" and its English version "100 Facts", which is their first song in English
BlackSwan - Tonight
Yes, If you see a black member in the picture, you are right, this is Fatou from blackSwan.
But BlackSwan is not new to the kpop industry, they are Rania before if you follow my blog 2 or 3 years ago. In 2016, the group was renamed BP Rania and remained that way until 2018, when they returned to using Rania. In June of 2020, the group announced they would be rebranding and changing their name to Blackswan.
Fatou is the first singer of African descent to debut in the K-pop industry.
Loona - Why Not
On October 19, Loona released their third EP titled [12:00] accompanied by the single "Why Not?". [12:00] debuted at number 4 on the Gaon Album Chart, and is Loona's first album to enter the Billboard 200, debuting at number 112
Compared to August, there are around same number of kpop girl groups debut or comeback at September.
(For certain reason, I will not include some information for certain group even I know some internal information for privacy issue.)
CLC - Helicopter
On September 2, CLC released their single, "Helicopter." Described as a "trap pop and EDM powerhouse song", "Helicopter" was co-written by member Yeeun.Helicopter got 10 Million views in 34 hours which is the fastest for CLC. Their previous record was for Devil and that took 1 month. Then reached 20 Million views in just 4 days wow! That’s impressive for a group that’s not in the big 3 after just 12.5 days from the release of the music video they achieved 30 million views which their previous video that achieved this took 1 year and 3 months and that was for sexy No back in February of 2019.
CLC aren’t know for selling many albums instead quite the opposite ,but they manage to break their own record they achieved 6,391 sales on 1st day of release which is a hefty amount since the just shy above 1K sales for first day for the 8th Ep No.1.
Everglow - LA DI DA
The group's second mini-album, -77.82X-78.29, was released on September 21, 2020, alongside the lead single "La Di Da" and three other songs: "Untouchable", "Gxxd Boy" and "No Good Reason". "La Di Da" was co-written by member E:U. The group's concept photos were released along with their schedule for promotions The group started promoting the lead single "La Di Da" on September 24. They first performed the lead single on Mnet's M Countdown, followed by performances on KBS' Music Bank, MBC's Show! Music Core and SBS' Inkigayo. They broke their first week sales with their album selling more than 25,000 copies.
Lovelyz - Obliviate
Lovelyz released their seventh EP Unforgettable on September 1, along with the lead single "Obliviate". The group got their first win for "Obliviate" on the September 8 episode of SBS MTV's The Show
Fromis_9 - feel good
I have mentioned this group few times before. The group released their third EP My Little Society on September 16, 2020. This features the title track "Feel Good". On September 10, Off The Record confirmed that Lee Seo-yeon would sit out of all promotions for this comeback due to a recent leg injury, and the group will promote as 8. The EP reached no. 3 on the Gaon Album Chart.
Cignature - Arisong
I have introduced this group before, so won't repeat again . On September 23, 2020, the demand for the EP exceeded demand forecast calculated by J9 Entertainment, and the first batch sold out, with the new batch getting delivered by October 5, because of the overlapping Korean Thanksgiving Day. The music video for "Arisong" has reached 3 million views within two days of its release. The song has also has been reviewed by former kpop girl group Nine Muses leader Ryu Sera on her channel, who called it "adorable and cute". Listen and Speak reached no. 21 on the Gaon Album Chart.
LunarSolar - Oh Ya Ya Ya
This is a brand new girl group, so I will introduce them briefly here. LunarSolar is a vocal-based 4 member kpop girl group under J Planet Entertainment. They debuted in September 2, 2020 with the single album "SOLAR : flare", and Oh Ya Ya Ya is their title track.
Compared to July, there are more kpop girl groups debut or comeback at August.
Blackpink(with Selena Gomez) - Ice Cream
On July 23, YG Entertainment announced that a new single, "Ice Cream", with American singer Selena Gomez, would be released on August 28. "Ice Cream" debuted and peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Blackpink's first single to peak inside the top-twenty of the chart. The song debuted in top-ten charts of Singapore and Hungary, the top-twenty in Australia, Canada and New Zealand and also entered the top-forty in Ireland, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom. It reached number 8 in its second week in South Korea. An official music video for the song was released on August 28, 2020. The video shows Gomez and Blackpink in a number of colorful, pastel sets and outfits.
The music video for "Ice Cream" was directed by frequent director and collaborator Seo Hyun-seung. It garnered 79.08 million views in its first 24 hours, marking the third biggest 24-hour debut for a music video on the platform, and a second personal best for the group behind their June 2020 single "How You Like That", which received 86.3 million views in its first 24 hours. The video debuted at number one on the Global YouTube Music Videos Chart
ITZY - Not Shy
On August 17, 2020, Itzy released their third EP Not Shy as well as the music video for the lead single of the same name. The album received positive reviews from critics, who commended Itzy's departure from themes of independence and self-love to the theme of love. Upon its release, Not Shy debuted at the top spot of the Gaon Albums Chart and went on to sell almost 206,280 copies on its first month of release in South Korea. The album also charted in Japan, Poland and the United States, peaking at number 8 on the Billboard World Albums chart.
Not Shy was released as the lead single from the album on August 17, 2020. With total of 5 wins, 1 wins in The Show and Music Bank, and 3 in the MCountdown, joining Blackpink as the girl group with most Music Show wins (13 wins) and Triple Crowns (3) in 2020. "Not Shy" also reached the top-ten in South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. Itzy also became with Blackpink the first and only girl groups to chart both on Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl.
G-dile - Dumi Dumi
On August 3, (G)I-dle released its first single album Dumdi Dumdi, with a lead single of the same name. With this release, Dumdi Dumdi ranked second best selling girl group single album in history with 94,587 initial sales. However, the song had a slow rising on the Gaon and Billboard charts. It debuted at number 27 and 15 on the Gaon Digital Chart and the US Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart, and later peaked at number 8 and 13, respectively.On iTunes, the song became their most-number-one song in 42 regions around the world. The music video for "Dumdi Dumdi" garnered over 17.6 million views in a single day, breaking their previous record with "Oh My God". The group ended the promotions winning first place for two weeks in a row on Show Champion, M Countdown and Inkigayo, becoming the group's most-winning title track
Dreamcatcher - BOCA
The fifth EP, Dystopia: Lose Myself was released on August 17. The music video for the title track 'BOCA' from their fifth mini-album Dystopia: Lose Myself was released at 6 pm on the 18th. The video exceeded 6 million views as of the morning of the 19th. "Dystopia: Lose Myself" become fastly their best selling album to date, having sold 86.874 copies in South Korea during its first two weeks.
Rocket Punch - Juicy
On August 4, the group returned with their third EP Blue Punch and its lead single "Juicy"
Saturday - D.B.D.B.DIB
I have introduced this group before, so not gonna introduce again. The members have good dance foundation in this group. D.B.D.B.DIB" is the second single album (labeled as their fourth) by SATURDAY. It was released on August 3, 2020.
BOTOPASS - Flamingo
This is brand new girl group, so I will introduce them here briefly. BOTOPASS is an eight-member kpop girl group under WKS ENE and XX Entertainment. They made their debut on August 26, 2020 with the single album "Flamingo". Their name stands for "BOrn TO be PASSion".
Compared to June, there are far less kpop girl groups debut or comeback at July, which leads to less competition.
GFriend - Apple
On June 17, it was announced that the group would make a comeback with their ninth EP:Song of the Sirens. It was released on July 13 with the lead single "Apple". On June 17, 2020, a source reported that: "GFriend recently wrapped up filming the music video for their title track. Throughout the filming, the staff on set were surprised by GFriend’s shocking transformation. The song debuted and peaked at number 54 on the Gaon Digital Chart for the week ending July 18, 2020. The song also placed at number 7 on the componing Download Chart and number 74 the week of the release of the song on the componing Streaming Chart.
April - Now or Never
On July 14, 2020, DSP Media announced that April would make a summer comeback with the special single album Hello Summer on July 29, with the title track "Now or Never"
S.I.S - Don't Wait
If you read my blog post in the past, S.I.S. looks very similar to GFriend, from members look, their style and dance all very similar. They even chose to comeback around same time with GFriend as well.
Also they used to have 6 members before as well. But On 13th July, Double X Entertainment revealed "S.I.S will be promoting as a 4-member group with Minji, Gaeul, Anne and Sebin from now on.". Double X added on, "our contract with member Jihye recently came to an end"Dal, on the other hand, will be taking a hiatus from her promotions due to personal reason.
Pink Fantasy - Shadow Play
This group is actually not new, but I will briefly introduce them again since they are not popular. PinkFantasy is a 7 member girl group under Mydoll Entertainment who debuted with the song Iriwa on October 24, 2018, consisting of SeeA, Yechan, SangA, Yubin, and Harin, and Arang as well as a hidden member Daewang. (I have no clue about the hidden member thing, maybe they just try to be different from all the other groups)
hidden member Daewang
They didn't really get any popularity, but also came back last month to join the competition as well.
So there are more kpop girl groups come back at June this year.
Twice - more&more
The group's ninth Korean EP, More & More, was released on June 1 with a lead single of the same name. The EP recorded over 550,000 sales on Gaon, making it not only Twice's best selling album to date but also the best-selling girl group album in South Korea in 20 years. The EP debuted at number 200 on the Billboard 200, making Twice the fourth South Korean girl group to enter the chart, after Girls' Generation, 2NE1 and Blackpink. Twice also entered the Billboard Artist 100 for the first time, debuting at number 96
what is more?
On May 27, it was reported that the pre-order sales of More & More had surpassed 500,000. With over 260,000 copies sold on Hanteo on the first day, Twice broke the record for the highest first-day sales for a Korean girl group. They also became the first Korean girl group to surpass 200,000 albums sold on the first day of release. On June 9, Gaon confirmed that More & More reached 550,000 copies sold in shipments, making it not only Twice's best-selling album to date, but also the best-selling girl group album in South Korea since S.E.S's album A Letter from Greenland in 2000
I*Zone - Secret Story of the Swan
On May 19, it was confirmed that the group would release their third mini-album Oneiric Diary on June 15. On June 15, the company announced that the music video release will be postponed to June 16, while the performance video and album will be released on the original schedule given. The group held the comeback showcase for their album on Mnet's second channel M2. On June 22, it was reported that the album broke the record of first week sales on Hanteo among girl groups, with 389,334 copies sold on its first 7 days
Momoland - TIKI TAKA
On May 15, 2020, it was confirmed that Momoland would make a comeback in early June. It was later revelead that the release would be a non-promoted special album titled Starry Night, which was released on June 11.
Cosmic Girls - Butterfly
Cosmic Girls released their eighth mini album Neverland, including the title track "Butterfly", on June 9, 2020.The EP debuted at number 2 on the Gaon Album Chart, while the lead single "Butterfly" debuted at number 118 on the Gaon Digital Chart on the chart issue dated June 7–13, 2020. The single also peaked at number 81 on the Billboard K-pop Hot 100
Weki Meki - Oopsy
On May 29, Fantagio released a teaser image for the group’s third EP, Hide and Seek, which was released on June 18.[ It consists of five songs, including the title track "Oopsy" and the previously released single "Dazzle Dazzle".
Weeekly - Tag Me
This is a brand new girl group, so I will introduce them here briefly. Weeekly is a seven-member kpop girl group launched by Play M Entertainment. The group is Play M Entertainment's second girl group in 10 years, after Apink. The group debuted on June 30, 2020 with their debut EP, We Are
DIA - Hug You
On May 25, 2020, it was revealed that DIA would make a comeback with their sixth EP Flower 4 Seasons on June 10. MBK later confirmed that the group will promote with five members as a unit without Chaeyeon & Somyi.
Nature - Girls
I introduced them before, so won't do again. On June 1, the group was confirmed to make their comeback on June 17 with their third single album Nature World: Code M. Loha will not participate due to health reasons, while Aurora will also not participate. They seem change style quite a bit in this new song.
3YE - YESSIR
This is also a new girl group, so I will introduce them briefly here. 3YE is a kpop girl group formed by GH Entertainment in 2019. The group debuted on May 21, 2019, with the digital single "DMT", and their first EP, Triangle, on June 29.
It's time to write a new blog again. After April this year, it's all different new girl groups either debut or come back within 2 or 3 month. In this blog, I will introduce few new kpop girl groups, keep people update the new trend.
Secret number - who dis
SECRET NUMBER is a five member multinational kpop girl group formed by Vine Entertainment. The group debuted on May 19, 2020 with their single album "Who Dis? It has one Korean member Soodam, two Korean-American members Jinny, Denise, one Japanese member Lea, and one Indonesian member, Dita, they gained netizens attention with their stage presence, vocal, and dancing skills.
Dita is the first Indonesian woman to debut as an idol in the K-pop industry and develop her dance skills in renowned 1MILLION DANCE Studio. (So when the readers have a chance, please drop by 1MILLION studio , I learnt a lot even I only went there once)
After their debut, the rookie groups popularity skyrocketing, The music video got 3.5 million views on youtube, and it's trending at #2 on youtube in Indonesia just within 2 days.
BVNDIT - "JUNGLE"
I have introduced this group before, please check my previous blog for more information about them. I do like their debut single. And On May 13, the group released their second EP Carnival with the title track "Jungle", got some degree of success.
Fanatics - V.A.V.I Girl
I also talked them quite a bit in my previous blog, so I won't repeat here. I did like their last comeback, the dance is amazing. On April 13, 2020, the group has announced the addition of 2 new members, Via and Rayeon, while at the same time also announcing that current members Chaelin and Yoonhye will be resting for their upcoming comeback with their 2nd mini album Plus Two on May 4
Busters - Paeonia
Busters is a six-member kpop girl group formed by Marbling E&M Inc. and JTG Entertainment in 2017. They add 2 members Takara and Minji before releasing their music video for "Paeonia".
RedSquare - ColorFull
This is a new kpop girl group, so I will briefly introduce them here. Red Square is a five-member kpop girl group formed by About Entertainment. The group debuted on May 19, 2020, with their single album Prequel with lead single "ColorFull". ( I don't understand why their debut MV, they all cover their eyes)
Woo!ah! - woo!ah!
This is a new group as well, so I will introduce them briefly here. WOO!AH! is a 6 member kpop girl group produced by Han Jiseok and Kim Kyusang under nv Entertainment consisting of members Nana, Wooyeon, Sora, Lucy, Minseo, and Songyee. They debut on May 13th, 2020 with 1st Single Album ‘’Exclamation”. ( I don't know why they are called WOO!AH!, just a name)
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