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.
