Girls' Generation

Girls' Generation
is a South Korean nine-member girl-group formed by SM entertainment in 2007. The members include (in order of official announcement) Yoona, Tiffany, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Taeyeon (the leader), Jessica, and Sunny. International Girls' Generation fans usually refer to the group as SNSD, the acronym of the group's Korean name So Nyeo Shi Dae. Many of the members had already pursued an entertainment career before Girls' Generation's debut through acting, DJ-ing, and modeling. Their official fanclub is known as S♡NE (소원) also one of the titles of a song from their first album. Girls' Generation sold 100,000 copies of their album in South Korea, being the first girl group to do so since 2002.

It was announced in September 2008 that Girls' Generation would be starring in a reality show on M.Net. Titled Factory Girl, the show chronicles the girls working as interns at Ella Korea . The program began airing on October 8, 2008. It was then announced that the group's first mini-album, Gee , would be released on January 7, 2009. A teaser video was released on January 2, 2009, with the first single "Gee" released to digital outlets on January 5. Interest in the song rose greatly after the digital release, topping Cyworld's hourly music chart on that day. The song also went #1 on all major digital music charts within two days.

The group began its comeback on January 10, 2009, on Show! Music Core. They sang their new single, "Gee", and "Him Nae/Way To Go", another track from the Gee mini-album which is a remake of the song Haptic Motion being used in the Anycall Haptic CFs, which is a mix of bubblegum pop and punk rock sound. Meanwhile, questions were raised when the group did not appear on KBS 's Music Bank with "Gee", even after winning #1 on the music chart show.

"Gee" is the record holder for the longest-running #1 on music portal M.Net (for 8 weeks), overcoming the previous record of 6 weeks set by the 'Wonder Girls "Nobody". They have also broke the record on KBS 's music show Music Bank by being #1 for 9 weeks, previously set by Jewelry's "One More Time, which had 7 wins.

Like the Wonder Girls' "So Hot" and "Nobody", and Lee Hyori's "U-Go-Girl", "Gee" was featured on perezhilton.com.

Their music video for 'Gee' has had over 1.5 million views on youtube.

Controversy

During the Dream Concert held on June 7 ,2008 in South Korea, a silent protest took place against them. This protest was conducted by three major fan clubs: E.L.F (Super Junior), Cassiopeia (TVXQ), and Triple S (SS501).