C-pop Girl Groups

Here's a list of popular girl groups from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Each group has a short profile and three songs. They are listed in order of the year they debuted. Who's your favorite?

1. S.H.E

Origin: Taiwan (Mandarin)

Debut: 2001

Members: 3

S.H.E. are perhaps the most well-known girl-group in C-pop. Their name is an acronym of the members' names: Selina Jen, Hebe Tien and Ella Chen.

Songs:
1. Irreplaceable 永遠都在
2. Blossomy 花又開好了
3. SHERO

2. Dream Girls

Origin: Taiwan (Mandarin)

Debut: 2011

Members: 3

The group members were models before their music career. Members Puff Kuo and Tia Lee are from Taiwan, and Emily Song is from South Korea.

Songs:
1. Don't Stop The Music
2. I'm Your Dream Girl
3. Tears But Also Beautiful 流淚也要美

3. Lunar

Origin: China (Mandarin)

Debut: 2011

Members: About 30

Lunar has a cosplay theme and has different concepts.

Songs:
1. 買買買
2. 戰歌
3. Pray

4. Popu Lady

Origin: Taiwan (Mandarin)

Debut: 2012

Members: 5

Popu Lady are labelmates of S.H.E. and their name means "popular lady".

Songs:
1. Gossip Girls 花邊女孩
2. Don't Say Goodbye 我不要
3. Lady First

5. Super Girls

Origin: Hong Kong (Cantonese)

Debut: 2012

Members: 5

Formerly known as Icon girls.

Songs:
1. 分手的美
2. 一拍即愛
3. 黑色西裝

6. As One

Origin: Hong Kong (Cantonese)

Debut: 2012

Members: 4

As One doubles as a K-pop group and have a Korean version of 'Candy Ball'. One of the members, Shin, participated in Korean survival show "Produce 101".

Songs:
1. Candy Ball
2. New Girl
3. 4ever

7. SNH48

Origin: China (Mandarin)

Debut: 2012

Members: It Varies

Began as a sister group of Japanese girl group AKB48.

Songs:
1. Bingo!
2. Gingham Check
3. 源动力

8. Seven Sense 七朵组合

Origin: China (Mandarin)

Debut: 2012 (Disbanded 2016)

Members: 7

Seven Sense was known for mixing pop with traditional Chinese music. They performed a Chinese rendition of Girls' Generation's "Gee".

Songs:
1. Jade Smoke 玉生烟
2. Five Tone Scale 
3. Gee (SNSD Cover)

9. Weather Girls 天氣女孩

Origin: Taiwan (Mandarin)

Debut: 2010

Members:7

The members are Japanese and acted as weather forecasters on TV.

Songs:
1. 威啊
2. Don't Cry
3. 我是 BOSS

10. Twinko

Origin: Taiwan (Mandarin)

Debut: 2013

Members: 5
They did a collab with K-pop girl group Dal Shabet.

Songs:
1. Falling In Love
2. Bling Bling
3. 說我愛你

11. 1931

Origin: China

Debut: 2014

Members: 16?

1932 is made up of two "teams": red and white.

Songs:
1. Fire
2. 我@你
3. 歡樂同萌會

12. S.I.N.G女团

Origin: China

Debut: 2016

Members: 13

SING is an acronym that stands for Super Impassioned Net Generation

Songs:
1. Confessions of Youth 青春的告白
2. 靈兒想叮噹
3. 聽見夏至

13. Lady Bees 蜜蜂少女队

Origin: China
Debut: 2016
Members: 7
Produced on a reality survival show by Nicky Wu and Nicolas Tse.

Songs:
1. 棒棒
2. 一起跳舞吧
3. 鼓励鼓励

14. BEJ48 & GNZ48

Origin: China (Mandarin)
Debut: 2016
Members: It Varies
These are sister groups to SNH48 and are based in Bejing and Guangzhou respectively.

Songs:
1. 元气觉醒 (BEJ48)
2. 元气觉醒 Dance Version
3. You Don't Know Me 你所不知道的我 (GNZ48)

Sources:
Images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Info: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Artist Profiles~Girls' Generation

Girl's Generation, also known as Sonyeo Sidae (SNSD), is perhaps Korea's top girl group. Their career stretches back 9 years and they keep a good-girl image (with an occasional sassy song). SNSD went from 9 to 8 members in 2014 when Jessica Jung left, however, they've maintained their popularity.

Girl Group

Girl's Generation (SNSD, SoShi)

Korean

1. Lion Heart

'Lion Heart' is a retro-pop track about a girl that falls in love with a playboy. He has a wandering heart so she tries to tame him like a lion. In the music video, a lion-man pursues the hearts of each SNSD member behind their backs and gets caught cheating! Then...you'll have to watch it yourself! The entire thing is true Girl's Generation. And from what I can tell, it was just as popular with international fans as Korean fans.

2. Dancing Queen

This is another retro-influenced jukebox jam. 'Dancing Queen' is actually a remake of Duffy's 'Mercy' with lyrics written by members Tiffany and Jessica. The video is reminiscent of 'Gee' because they all wearing colored skinny jeans and then one scene hints at a later release when Sooyoung says 'ayo gg'.(from I Got A Boy released a year later). 

3. Mr. Mr

With scratchy electronic synths and bass, 'Mr. Mr' is perfect for dancing. It's not cutesy like their typical music, but there's still slivers of the classic SNSD in there. Mainly because of the catchy, repetitive chorus. My favorite part is the music video, which has a dark doctor theme. The visuals are overrun with the color pink and SNSD's 'Mister' gets a heart transplant.

Other Songs:

4. Talk Talk (2016)

5. Bump It

6. Baby Maybe

Sources

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