After School
Girl groupDisbandedDance-popRetroPowerful
A school-themed girl group where members "graduate" instead of leaving. Eleven women in all, with a drumline marching band concept for "Bang!" and even tap dancing and pole dancing in their live shows. Pure 2009 nostalgia.
- Members
- 5
- Debut
- 2009 (17 years)
- Generation
- 2nd gen (2004 to 2011)
- Label
- Pledis
Start with: Bang!
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Achievements
- "Bang!" (2010) entered the Gaon Weekly Chart at number 2 and sold 2,374,731 digital downloads that year
- "Diva" won Rookie of the Month at the Cyworld Digital Music Awards in April 2009
- Best Rookie Award at both the Billboard Japan Music Awards and the Seoul Music Awards (2010)
- Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Commendation in 2011
- Japanese debut single "Bang!" reached number 7 on the Oricon Weekly chart (2011)
- Ranked number 5 in Billboard's 2017 Top 10 K-pop Girl Groups of the Past Decade
Timeline
- 2009Debut in January with the single album New Schoolgirl and "Ah!"; Uee joins in April for "Diva"
- 2009Raina and Nana join; "Because of You" tops the monthly digital chart for December
- 2010Marching band concept with "Bang!"; subunit Orange Caramel formed in June
- 2011First studio album Virgin with "Shampoo"; Japanese debut with Avex Trax
- 2012First Japanese album Playgirlz; Kahi graduates and "Flashback" is released in June
- 2014Second Japanese album Dress to Kill and Dress to SHINE tour
- 2015Pledis halts After School promotions; Jooyeon graduates in March
- 2021Five former members reunite for a one-off performance of "Bang" and "Diva" on SBS's MMTG
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