That seemed to be a big loss by reservation and a big loss by SM entertainment. But at the same time on the other side of the world, The boys sold 3 million copies in Korea. With multiple mistakes on SM entertainment part ‘The boys’ flopped in the United States only 21,000 digital downloads. That was met with mixed reviews with a lot of sone saying that this is a bad choice to introduce the United States audience to Girls Generation and to Kpop. Performing on the ‘Late night show’ with David Letterman and ‘Live with Regis and Kelly’ with the title track ‘ The boys‘. With a strategic joint effort between SM Entertainment and Interscope Records, the Girls generation promoted their new album ‘The boys’ in America for the first time. All this steam built up from success in Korea and success in Japan caused an explosion. As the title that is still passed on to this day. Of course, it was the media in Korea coming up with the name ‘ The nation’s girl group, A pride of the country, A pride of the music, and A pride of culture. A title would be continued on through generations of Kpop and Girls Generation was the first. This is where Girls Generation was the first to coin the title ‘ The Nation’s Girl Group‘. Ever classic Girls Generation is one of the first groups to trailblaze Kpop in Japan.
SM entertainment company moves in Japan for Girls Generation and Girls Generation achieving double platinum with their first Japanese album. With tremendous success in Korea, SM entertainment wanted to tackle Japan. These releases and albums selling hundreds of thousands leading Girls Generation to claim the title of the year is not only 2010 but also 2011. Songs like ‘ Genie, Oh!, Run devil run, Hoot‘. From then on hit after hit was released by Girls Generation. When you go into a karaoke, if you’re a Kpop fan all you know is Kpop music Gee is one of those go-to songs that you sing. A record held for years until Psy came with ‘ Gangnam style‘. ‘ Gee‘ stayed at the number 1 spot for nine consecutive weeks in Korea. Not only a huge hit at the time and is still a huge hit today. But, that is until 2009 where the world saw for the first time the Kpop classic. For the next couple of years, Girls Generation released some singles here and there.
It is probably the most iconic song they have ever released. To this day ‘Into the new world‘ is a song used in protests in South Korea for equal rights, women rights, gay rights, and even use as propaganda as one of the songs played across the border to North Korea. At the time people may not have seen how iconic a song was. The year 2007 SM entertainment reveals the new girl group Girls Generation with the debut song ‘ Into the new world‘. All Kpop girl groups now are based on that legendary Kpop girl group. Girls Generation is the perfect mold of the Kpop girl group.
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