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The Korean Wave's "Nation's Girl Group", with electropop and bubblegum hits you've probably hummed already. Eight members today, and "Gee" held number one for a record nine weeks, so yes, they have receipts.
- Members
- 8
- Debut
- 2007 (19 years)
- Generation
- 2nd gen (2004 to 2011)
- Label
- SM
Start with: Gee
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Achievements
- "Gee" (2009) held number one on KBS's Music Bank for a record nine consecutive weeks and was Melon's most popular song of the 2000s
- Oh! (2010) won the Golden Disc Album of the Year (Disk Daesang), making them the first and only female act to win it
- Their 2011 Japanese album was the first by a non-Japanese girl group certified million by the RIAJ
- "I Got a Boy" won Video of the Year at the inaugural YouTube Music Awards (2013)
- Named "Top K-pop Girl Group of the Past Decade" by Billboard (2017)
Timeline
- 2007Debut on August 5 with the single "Into the New World"
- 2009Breakthrough with the EP Gee and "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)"
- 2010Album Oh! and start of their Japanese career with "Genie"
- 2011Japanese studio album tops Oricon; Korean album The Boys released in the US by Interscope
- 2013Fourth Korean album I Got a Boy; first world tour Girls & Peace
- 2014Jessica leaves the group in September; they continue as eight members
- 2017Sixth Korean album Holiday Night for their tenth anniversary; start of a hiatus
- 2022Return for their 15th anniversary with the album Forever 1
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