![]() They won the award for best-selling song for the first half of 2009 for "Gee". ![]() They also broke the record on KBS's music show Music Bank by being #1 for 9 consecutive weeks, previously set by Jewelry's "One More Time", which had 7 wins. "Gee" is the record holder for the longest-running #1 on music portal M.net (for 8 weeks), surpassing the previous record of 6 weeks set by the Wonder Girls' " Nobody". However, the group did not appear on KBS's Music Bank with "Gee", even after winning #1 on the music chart show. This song is a remake of the song "Haptic Motion" that was used in cellphone advertisements and is a mix of bubblegum pop and punk rock. They sang their new single, "Gee", and "Him Nae/Way To Go", another track from the Gee mini-album. The group began to promote the album in January 2009 on MBC Show! Music Core. The song also went #1 on all major digital music charts within two days. People became interested in the song rose after the digital release, and the song became #1 Cyworld's hourly music chart on the release day. Later, it was announced that the group's first mini-album, Gee, would be released in January 2009.Ī teaser video was released in January 2009 and the first single " Gee" was released soon after. In 2008, M.net announced that the group would be starring in a reality TV show called "Factory Girl", in which the girls work as interns at fashion megazine " Elle", writing articles for the magazine.ĭuring their break from music, they appeared in many television advertisements for MapleStory and Mabinogi. The tour went on to South Korea, Thailand, and China.Ģ008–2010: Other activities, return with mini-albums and Japanese Debut Girls' Generation, along with fellow artists such as BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, CSJH the Grace, Zhang Liyin, SHINee, and other SM artists participated in SM Town Live '08. The single from the mini-album is "Oppa Nappa" ( Korean: "오빠 나빠", lit."Bad Brother", although contextually it refers to an older male friend). A digital EP featuring Jessica, Tiffany, and Seohyun was released on April 2008, titled Roommate. A third single, "Baby Baby", was used to promote the album. In March 2008, the album was re-released and re-titled Baby Baby. This song achieved the #1 spot in the three main TV music rankings-SBS Inkigayo, M.net M.Countdown! and KBS Music Bank. The music video featured Donghae from Super Junior. In early 2008, Girls' Generation began promoting their third single, "Kissing You". "Girls' Generation" was became popular, and the album has sold 121,143 copies to date, placing 8th in the year-end charts. Promotion for the single started in early November. Girls' Generation performed their single on SBS's Inkigayo, MBC's Show! Music Core, and on KBS's Music Bank.Īfter a short break, the group's first full album was released in late autumn 2007, with the lead single "Girls' Generation" ( Korean: 소녀시대), a cover of Lee Seung-Chul ( Korean: 이승철)'s hit song in the 1980s. An instrumental of "Into the New World" was also put in the album.Īfter the single was released, the group started to promote it. This single included two other songs, "Beginning" and "Perfect for You" ( Korean: 소원), later renamed as Honey for their debut album Girls' Generation. In August 2007, the single "Into the New World" was released. The show ended after 9 episodes, when they finally appeared on another show, "School of Rock". "M.Net's Girls Go To School" was filmed during this time, to show how the girls made their debut. ![]() The girls performed "Into the New World"( Korean: 다시 만난 세계), which became their single. Even though their performances were never played on television, videos of their performances were posted on the Internet. Girls' Generation first performed on M.net M! Countdown in July 2007. Some girls had already appeared in television advertisements, music videos of other music groups and acted in dramas as well, before Girls' Generation started.Ģ007: Debut and first album History Before debut Įach member of the group was trained in singing and dancing before their debut, while some others were trained in acting and modelling. Tiffany (티파니) - American name: Stephanie Hwang (스테파니 황) - Korean name: Hwang Mi-Young (황미영).Their fans are called " S♡NE" (소원), and is pronounced as "So-won", which means "wish" in Korean. Fans usually call the group SNSD, which is a short-form of the group's Korean name, So Nyeo Shi Dae (or So Nyuh Shi Dae). Jessica was a member, but in 2014, she left the group. Girls' Generation members are Yoona, Tiffany, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Taeyeon (who is the group's leader), and Sunny. Girls' Generation ( Hangul: 소녀시대 Hanja: 少女時代) is a girl group made up of nine members that was formed by SM Entertainment in 2007.
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