AOA
Girl groupOn hiatusDance-popBright and funLive band
Eight angels who started as a dance group and a band at once, so one of them literally played drums. Start with "Heart Attack", over a million downloads in 2015, then dive into "Miniskirt" and "Like a Cat".
- Members
- 5
- Debut
- 2012 (14 years)
- Generation
- 3rd gen (2012 to 2017)
- Label
- FNC
Start with: Heart Attack
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Achievements
- "Miniskirt" (2014) peaked at number 11 on the Gaon Digital Chart and number 8 on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100
- "Like a Cat" ranked number 1 on the Gaon Social Chart for six consecutive weeks (2014)
- Named in the top 5 best-selling girl groups of 2014 on Gaon
- "Heart Attack" (2015) peaked at number 2 on the Gaon Digital Chart with over one million downloads that year
- "Good Luck" (2016) peaked at number 2 on the Gaon Digital Chart and its album sold over 40,000 units
- Held their first headlining Korean concert, "Ace of Angels", at Olympic Hall in Seoul (2017)
Timeline
- 2012Debut on July 30 with "Elvis" as a 7+1 group that alternates between dance group and band
- 2014"Miniskirt" brings their first music show win and first Japanese single; "Short Hair" and "Like a Cat" follow
- 2015"Heart Attack" becomes one of the most downloaded songs of the year; first appearances in the United States at KCON
- 2016Sub-unit AOA Cream debuts; mini album Good Luck; Youkyung leaves the group
- 2017First Korean studio album Angel's Knock; Choa leaves, leaving six members
- 2018Comeback with the EP Bingle Bangle, whose title track peaks at number 4 on the Gaon Digital Chart
- 2019Mina leaves; the group takes part in Queendom and releases the EP New Moon as five members
- 2020Jimin leaves the group; AOA has been inactive since
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