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💎 APINK

Apink made their official debut on April 19, 2011, with the mini album, Seven Springs of Apink, along with the title track "I Don't Know" (몰라요; "Mollayo"). In October 2014, Apink released their first Japanese-language single, "NoNoNo".The group has won awards at shows such as the 26th Golden Disc Awards, 21st Seoul Music Awards and 13th Mnet Asian Music Awards. Their first music program win was on M Countdown on January 5, 2012, for "My My" from their second EP Snow Pink. Apink has won more than 30 music awards and 32 music program awards. To date Apink has released six Korean mini-albums, three Korean studio albums and two Japanese studio albums.

HistoryEdit

Pre-debutEdit

In February 2011, Cube Entertainmentannounced the first trainee for its new girl group, Apink, was Son Na-eun, who was featured in label mate Beast' "Soom" (숨; "Breath"), "Beautiful" and "Niga Jeil Joha" (니가 제일 좋아; "I Like You the Best") music videos in late 2010.[3] Park Cho-rong, who appeared at the end of Beast's "Shock" Japanese music video, joined next, as the group's leader.[4] A sub-division of Cube Entertainment, A Cube Entertainment is the group's manager. Still in February, A Cube announced Oh Ha-young as the third member.[5] In March, Jeong Eun-ji was introduced as the fourth member on A Cube's Twitter account through a video of her singing a rendition ofJennifer Hudson's "Love You I Do".[6]Hong Yoo-kyung was similarly announced through an online video where she was playing the piano.[7] The last two members, Yoon Bo-mi and Kim Nam-joo, were introduced through the group's reality show, Apink News.[8]

Prior to the group's debut, the documentary Apink News aired on the Korean cable channel Trend E.[9] The show chronicled the launch process of Apink. The episodes were hosted by various celebrities, including G.NA, Mario, MBLAQ's Seung Ho and G.O, Beast, 4minute, 2AM's Jinwoon, Secret'sSunhwa and Hyoseong.[10][11] The week before Apink's official debut, they released their first television commercial for Ceylon Tea.[12]

2011: Seven Springs of Apink and Snow PinkEdit

A Pink at the GSL Season 5 Code S Final Performance, 2011

The group released their debut EP,Seven Springs of Apink and the music video for its lead single, "Mollayo" (몰라요; "I Don't Know"), on April 19, 2011. The album consists of five songs, including "It Girl" and "Wishlist". The music video for "Mollayo" featured Beast' Lee Gi-kwang.[13] Apink made their debut stage performance with "Mollayo" on Mnet's M! Countdown on April 21 to promote their album.[14] After several months of promoting "Mollayo", they began promoting "It Girl".[4] Apink also recorded the song "Uri Geunyang Saranghage Haejuseyo" (우리 그냥 사랑하게 해주세요; "Please Let Us Love") for the SBS drama, Protect the Boss, the soundtrack of which was released in September 2011.[15]

In November 2011, Apink began recording a reality television show calledBirth of a Family with boy band Infinite. The show followed the efforts of the two idol groups to care for abandoned and mistreated animals over the course of eight weeks.[16]

The group released their second EP,Snow Pink, on November 22, 2011, featuring the lead single "My My", a song composed by Shinsadong Tiger. Promotions for "My My" began on November 25 on KBS' Music Bank.[17]The promotions for "My My" included a one-day idol tea café, serving fans to raise profits for charity, where the group members prepared the food and drinks themselves. The members also auctioned off personal items for charity.[18]