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Girls' Generation

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Left to Right: Jessica, Tae Yeon, Hyo Yeon, Seo Hyun, Yu Ri, Yoon A, Soo Young, Sunny, Tiffany

Girls' Generation (소녀시대, 少女時代) is a Korean pop girl group formed by SM Entertainment.

Members

Information

So Nyuh Shi Dae, or Girls' Generation, were so named for the ambition that the group will take over the music world in Asia. To further this goal, the group consists of members who speak English, Japanese, and Chinese in addition to Korean. Many of the girls have had prior experience in the entertainment world as actresses, VJs, singers, and models.

The group's debut single, "Into the New World", was released on August 2, 2007. Their single consist of three tracks and one instrumental. Their second track "Beginning" was a remake of the "2 blocks down" by the popular Swedish girl group Play. Their debut performance on SBS's Inki Gayo aired three days later on August 5. A reality show called "MNet Girls Go To School" was filmed during their debut days. In late 2007 the group released the album Girls' Generation and promoted the title track during the rest of the year. They went to 2007 MKMF, and won MNet's award for newcomer group.

Starting early 2008 the group started to promote Kissing You, releasing a music video for the song, which featured Super Junior's Dong Hae. They released repackaged version of their first album in March, and promotions for Baby Baby started, and lasted until the end of April. During the rest of the year, Girls' Generation was featured in various CFs, on their own and along with Super Junior and Dong Bang Shin Ki. They also performed songs like TOP (Shinhwa) and Tell Me (Wonder Girls) on music programs. They attended Asia Song Festival 2008 on October, along with groups like SHINee, w-inds and Berryz Kobo. On late 2008 the group was featured in a MNet reality show, called "Factory Girl". Tae Yeon was featured in a drama OST, singing Can You Hear Me, which was promoted from October to December.

In January 2009 the group released their first mini album "Gee", and the title track was a hit, it topped most online music charts right after it was released, and it was popular even in Thailand. Promotions for Gee stopped on the end of March. They digitally released the song "HaHaHa", which was used as a Samsung campaign song, to encourage people on the times of hard economy. The girls shortly starred on the show "Horror Factory" (cancelled). The group soon started to star in a KBS new show, called "Hello Baby", on which the girls take care of a baby called Kyung San. After a short break, the group returned to the music scene with the mini album Tell Me Your Wish (Genie). Promotions started on June and ended in August. On August, a news magazine called "Shisa Journal" did a survey of "The people who move Korea", where experts and professionals from academia, media, politics, art and religion were phone interviewed, and Girls' Generation was ranked #6, amongst big names like Rain, Yoo Jae Suk, Kang Ho Dong, Bae Yong Joon, An Sung Gi (Korea's #1 movie actor of all time), Jo Yong Pil (Korea's #1 musician of all time), Choi Bool Am (Korea's #1 tv actor of all time), Park Jin Young and Kim Hye Ja. Girls' Generation digitally released the song "Chocolate Love (Retro Pop Version)" in October, and the song was used as a promotion song for the LG Cyon Chocolate cellphone, although it wasn't promoted on any music shows or radio programs, it reached #2 in the music chart Melon. Girls' Generation are scheduled to hold their first Asian concert tour, which will start at Seoul on December. They'll also do concerts in countries like China and Thailand.

Trivia

  • Official Balloon Color: Pearl Pink
  • Official Fanclub: S♥NE (소원; sowon; Wish)

Discography

Single

Albums

Mini-Albums

Digital Single

Compilations

  • [2007.11.23] Thirty Thousand Miles in Search of My Son OST (#1 Touch The Sky)
  • [2007.12.07] 2007 WINTER SMTOWN (#7 Lovely Melody)
  • [2008.01.22] Hong Gil Dong (TV series) OST (#2 If - Tae Yeon solo, #5 The Little Boat)
  • [2008.08.08] Working Mom OST (#1 For Sure - Yuri and Soo Young duet, #2 You don't know about Love - Sunny solo)
  • [2008.09.17] Beethoven Virus OST (#7 Can You Hear Me...? - Tae Yeon solo, #13 Day by Day)
  • [2008.11.15] Story of Wine OST (Forever Finally Now - Sunny solo)
  • [2009.03.25] Ja Myung Go OST (By Myself - Tiffany solo)
  • [2009.09.16] Heading to the Ground OST (#1 It's Love - Tae Yeon and Sunny duet, #2 Motion - Tae Yeon, Jessica, Sunny, Tiffany and Seohyun)

Awards

  • [2007.08.01] Cyworld Song of the Month of August (Into the New World)
  • [2007.10.11] MNet M! Countdown #1 (Into the New World)
  • [2007.11.25] SBS Inkigayo #1 (Girls' Generation)
  • [2007.12.02] SBS Inkigayo #1 (Girls' Generation)
  • [2007.12.04] 14th Annual Korean Entertainment Awards - Best New Female Group (So Nyuh Shi Dae)
  • [2007.12.06] MNet M! Countdown #1 (Girls' Generation)
  • [2007.12.13] MNet Golden Disk Awards - Anycall Popularity Award (So Nyuh Shi Dae)
  • [2007.12.13] MNet Golden Disk Awards - Anycall Newbie Award (So Nyuh Shi Dae)
  • [2008.01.31] 17th Seoul Song Awards - High1 Music Award (So Nyuh Shi Dae)
  • [2008.01.31] 17th Seoul Song Awards - Best New Artist Award (So Nyuh Shi Dae)
  • [2008.02.03] SBS Inkigayo #1 (Kissing You)
  • [2008.02.14] MNet M! Countdown #1 (Kissing You)
  • [2008.02.17] SBS Inkigayo #1 (Kissing You)
  • [2008.02.28] MNet M! Countdown #1 (Kissing You)
  • [2008.02.29] KBS Music Bank #1 (Kissing You)
  • [2008.03.10] MNet M! Countdown #1 (Baby Baby)
  • [2008.03.23] MNet 20's Choice - Hot Sweet Music award (Kissing You)
  • [2008.12.03] 15th Annual Korean Entertainment Awards - Best Female Group (So Nyuh Shi Dae)
  • [2009.01.16] KBS Music Bank #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.01.18] SBS Inkigayo #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.01.23] KBS Music Bank #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.01.30] KBS Music Bank #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.02.01] Cyworld Song of the Month for January (Gee)
  • [2009.02.01] SBS Inkigayo #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.02.13] KBS Music Bank #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.02.20] KBS Music Bank #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.02.27] KBS Music Bank #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.03.01] Cyworld Song of the Month for February (Gee)
  • [2009.03.06] KBS Music Bank #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.03.19] KBS Music Bank #1 (Gee)
  • [2009.06.26] KBS Music Bank #1 Overall for 1st Half of 2009 (Gee)
  • [2009.07.10] KBS Music Bank #1 (Tell Me Your Wish (Genie))
  • [2009.07.19] SBS Inkigayo #1 (Tell Me Your Wish (Genie))
  • [2009.10.16] Culture Day Award (2009 Young Artist Award)
  • [2009.11.30] 17th Republic of Korea Entertainment Award - Daesang (So Nyuh Shi Dae)
  • [2009.12.10] 24th Golden Disk Awards - Digital Music Daesang (So Nyuh Shi Dae)
  • [2009.12.10] 24th Golden Disk Awards - Digital Music Bonsang (So Nyuh Shi Dae)

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