KARA
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Remember the "butt dance" in "Mister"? Yes, that one. KARA split in 2016, then came back in 2022 for their fifteenth anniversary, so the comeback is basically a reunion with your old favourites.
- Members
- 5
- Debut
- 2007 (19 years)
- Generation
- 2nd gen (2004 to 2011)
- Label
- DSP
Start with: Mister
Achievements
- First foreign female group in 30 years to top the Oricon Singles Chart, after their 2010 Japanese debut
- Super Girl (2011) debuted at number one on the Oricon Weekly Album Chart with 275,206 copies, certified triple platinum by the RIAJ
- Sold over one million physical singles in Japan by 2012, the third South Korean artist to do so after BoA and TVXQ
- First female South Korean act to hold a concert at the Tokyo Dome (January 6, 2013)
- Named Best Rookie Artist of 2010 by Oricon, and invited to the 62nd Kōhaku Uta Gassen in 2011
Timeline
- 2007Debut as a quartet on March 29 with the album The First Blooming
- 2008Sunghee leaves; Goo Hara and Kang Jiyoung join; mini-album Rock U
- 2009First number-one single with "Honey"; "Mister" brings the group wide popularity
- 2010Japanese debut with a Japanese version of "Mister" under Universal Sigma
- 2012First headlining tour Karasia, starting in Seoul and then Japan
- 2014Nicole and Jiyoung leave; Hur Youngji wins Kara Project and joins
- 2016DSP Media announces the expiry of contracts of Gyuri, Seungyeon and Hara, leading to disbandment
- 2022Five members reunite for the fifteenth anniversary album Move Again
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