MOMOLAND
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In June 2016, Mnet's survival program Finding Momoland began, a reality show where a group of seven members (Yeonwoo, Hyebin, Jane, Nayun, JooE, Ahin and Nancy) were selected from 10 trainees (including Daisy, Shinsia and Heejae). It was decided that the members were going to make their debut, but the Final Mission could not collect the target 3,000 spectators as there were about 2,300 citizens at the scene. So the official debut was delayed.
On October 26, 2016, the group was appointed as ambassadors for the International Relief Development NGO Plan Korea, volunteered at the Pak Luong Village in Taipei, Vietnam from December 12 to 16, 2017, to encourage Happy Mov students to participate in Kindergarten construction service. In addition, the group had a cultural exchange event to villagers and Korean-Vietnamese culture and showed good response to the villagers by showing their songs on their debut album. The group's debut showcase was held on November 9.
On November 10, they released their mini album Welcome to Momoland with the title track "JJan! Koong! Kwang!
" and made their debut through M! Countdown. The group had a cameo on the April 4 episode of tvN's drama The Liar And His Lover, where they played female trainees preparing for their debut through the drama’s fictional entertainment agency Soul Music, and even had in-character performance of their debut title track "JJan!
Koong! Kwang! ".
On March 13, it was announced that Daisy (originally a contestant in Finding Momoland but was eliminated) and Taeha (former Produce 101 contestant) would be joining the group, increasing the group to nine members. On April 25, the group had a comeback through The Show and their first single album "Wonderful Love" was released. In the same year, on June 3, KBS 2TV Music Bank played the EDM version of "Wonderful Love", which was released as a digital single on June 16.
On July 22, the group performed the EDM version of "Wonderful Love" on The Show. On August 22, 2017, they released their second mini album, Freeze! , debuting the title track "Freeze" through The Show on the same day.
On January 3, they made a comeback with their third mini album Great! , with the title track "BBoom BBoom". The same month, Russian girl group accused MOMOLAND of plagiarizing their song "Mi Mi Mi" with "BBoom BBoom".
The composer of the song, Shinsadong Tiger, denied the allegations by pointing out that "the bass line [is] commonly heard in retro house or swing electronic genres, as well as the 4-stanza chord. " On January 11, they won their first music show award on Mnet's M! Countdown.
On January 13, it was announced via the group's official Japanese website that they would release their first Japanese best album, MOMOLAND The Best ~Korean Ver. ~, on February 28. MOMOLAND then held promotional events in Tokyo and Osaka from February 28 until March 4, 2018, garnering 25,000 spectators over four days.
Approximately 100 media also participated in the showcase held at Tower Records in Shibuya. The group also signed with to release their upcoming debut Japanese single "BBoom BBoom" on June 13. In June, MOMOLAND starred in their first reality show called MOMOLAND’s Saipan Land.
The group filmed for the show in May while they were in Saipan for their music video of their Japanese version of "BBoom BBoom". The members were given 48 hours of free time, and they set off to enjoy various activities and cuisine. They also confided in each other and will reveal things they have not been able to through this reality show, and consisted of 5 episodes only.
On June 26, MOMOLAND made their comeback releasing its fourth mini album entitled Fun to The World with a fun dance track produced by Shinsadong Tiger. On August 21, the group announced that will be releasing their second Japanese single "Baam" on November 7. On February 12, 2019, it was announced that the group will release a new album in March.
On March 6, it was announced that MOMOLAND will release a new...
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