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Girls' Generation (Music)

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 Girls' Generation, often abbreviated as SNSD (short for the romanization of their Korean name, So Nyeo Shi Dae) is a popular Korean Girl Group that started with nine members. The group was initially seen as something of a female answer to labelmates Super Junior, but has since gone on to become not only a unique and equally respected group in their own right but one of the biggest K-pop groups in the world.Formed in 2007 by SM Entertainment, the group's current members are Taeyeon (the leader of the group during their rise to fame), Sunny, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Yoona (the current leader of the group), Sooyoung, Tiffany and Seohyun (the "maknae" or youngest member). It is important to note that while some group membersnote Tiffany, Sooyoung, Seohyun and Sunny have left SM Entertainment, they remain members of the group. Member Jessica Jung, who had been with the group since its inception, departed in September 2014.note On September 29, 2014, Jessica announced via her Weibo that she had been kicked out of the group, claiming the company and "eight others" had banded together to get her removed. SM Entertainment later released their own statement confirming Jessica's departure but saying she had actually been fired due to her allegedly neglecting her group duties in favor of her own ventures. Jessica replied with another statement denying this. To this day, nobody outside of the members and the company knows for sure exactly what happened, and probably never will. In the years since, Jessica has pursued endeavors including a solo music career, a fashion line, and novel writing.Some of the group membersnote Taeyeon, Tiffany, Yuri, Hyoyeon, and Seohyun have started solo music careersnote although each member has released at least one solo song, be it for soundtracks or otherwise, and everyone except Hyoyeon has some form of an acting career, whether it be musicals, voice acting, films or TV dramas. Several subgroups within the main group have also been made — Girls' Generation-TTS (Taeyeon, Tiffany, and Seohyun), active from 2012 to 2017, and Girls' Generation-Oh!GG (Sunny, Taeyeon, Yoona, Yuri and Hyoyeon), which debuted in 2018 and resumed activity in 2021.SNSD began to achieve widespread fame in 2009 after the release of their first EP (referred to as a "mini album") and its namesake leading single "Gee", which has since become a Signature Song for the group. "Gee" became the best-selling South Korean single of 2009, and held the distinction of being the longest-running #1 ranked song on Music Bank, one of Korea's most popular music chart shows, before it was eventually passed by Psy's record-shattering hit "Gangnam Style". Its music video also became the first by a girl group to reach 100 million views on YouTube. In more recent years, the song has been hailed as a K-pop classic, making (and often topping) numerous lists of the greatest songs ever made in the genre, being credited for shaping the sound that became associated with modern K-pop, and being christened as the "K-Pop Song of the Decade" by Melon (a Korean music website and award-giving body).Following several more releases and an inaugural tour that sold out in three minutes, the group signed with a division of Universal Music Japan to venture into making releases in the Japanese language, where they found further success. They eventually expanded into American releases in 2011 with The Boys, but the group was really pushed into the international spotlight after the title track of their fourth Korean album I Got a Boy won Video of the Year at the inaugural YouTube Music Awards in 2013. Considering the group was up against nominees like Psy and Justin Bieber, and they were considered relatively lesser-known, their victory was something of an upset and made headlines in media outlets all over the world.The girls are especially beloved among their fans (dubbed "Sones"note pronounced "so-ones") due to reasons including their dorky natures when not performing and the copious amounts of Fanservice that they dish out. They are also well-known for the Les Yay that they often indulge in; in turn, the fans do a little indulging of their own in the form of the sheer amount of Slash Fic that gets churned out featuring the girls.On October 9, 2017, SM announced that members Sooyoung, Seohyun and Tiffany had chosen not to re-sign with the company — Tiffany because she would be going overseas to study and work on solo activities, while Sooyoung and Seohyun wanted to focus on their acting careers. The company stated, "Girls’ Generation is a group that is precious and meaningful to SM and their fans. The members also have no thoughts at all about disbanding. Simply, as there are members whose contracts have ended, a careful decision will be made after discussions with the members about Girls’ Generation’s direction for activities in the future." From this point onward, the group was considered to be on indefinite hiatus, with all members focusing primarily on their solo careers.In May 2022, SM announced the group would be reuniting for their 15-year anniversary in August of that year, and that month saw the release of Forever 1, their seventh Korean album. It was also revealed that they had decided to change the leader role in the group, with it now being on a rotating monthly basis to take the stress off Taeyeon, who had served as the sole leader since the group's early days. The members reportedly agreed that as Yoona, Tiffany and Sooyoung did the best job, they would ask Yoona (who is also the leader of Oh!GG) to be the leader for Forever 1 promotions, with Tiffany and Sooyoung acting as second in command.On August 8, 2023, Sunny also announced her departure from SM, saying that while she was "now trying to take courage to see [herself] in a new environment from a different perspective", she would remain "Girls' Generation's Sunny".
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