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'''<nowiki/>'<nowiki/>''Twice'<nowiki/>''''' (Korean: 트와이스; Japanese: トゥワイス), is a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment. The group is composed of nine members: Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu. Twice was formed under the television program Sixteen (2015) and debuted on October 20, 2015, with the extended play (EP) ''<nowiki/>'The Story Begins'.'' One of the biggest Kpop Girl girl groups, Korea called them '''''Nation's Girl Group'''. ''
Twice rose to domestic fame in 2016 with their single ''"Cheer Up"'', which charted at number one on the Gaon Digital Chart, became the best-performing single of the year, and won "Song of the Year" at the Melon MelOn Music Awards and Mnet Asian Music Awards. Their next single, ''"TT"'', from their third EP ''Twicecoaster: Lane 1'', topped the Gaon charts for four consecutive weeks. The EP was the highest selling K-pop girl group album of 2016. Within 19 months after debut, Twice had already sold over 1.2 million units of their four EPs and special album. In 2019, they became the best-selling Korean girl group of all-time. The group has sold over 9 million albums in South Korea and Japan as of July 2020. In 2020, Twice signed with Republic Records for American promotions as part of a partnership with JYP Entertainment.
The group debuted in Japan on June 28, 2017 under Warner Music Japan, with the release of a compilation album titled ''#Twice'' The album charted at number 2 on the Oricon Albums Chart with the highest first-week album sales by a K-pop artist in Japan in two years.
'''Son Chae-young''', known mononymously as Chaeyoung, is a South Korean singer, rapper and songwriter. She is a member of Twice, a K-pop girl group formed by JYP Entertainment.
'''Chou Tzu-yu''', known mononymously as Tzuyu, is a Taiwanese singer, dancer and songwriter based in South Korea. She is the youngest member of the girl group Twice, formed by JYP Entertainment. Tzuyu is Twice's only member from Taiwan. She's cute too.
==Background Information==
Twice received its first award at the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards as Best New Female Artist, followed by another New Artist Award at the 2016 Golden Disc Awards.
In 2016, Twice won its first music program award with ''"Cheer Up"'' on the May 5 episode of M Countdown. The group also won several main and grand prize awards including Song of the Year with ''"Cheer Up"'' in two major music awards shows, Melon MelOn Music Awards and Mnet Asian Music Awards. Their second EP was the fifth-highest-selling K-pop album of 2016. In 2017, ''"Signal"'' from their fourth extended play of the same name achieved Twice's second Song of the Year award at the 2017 Mnet Asian Music Awards, making them the first artist to consecutively win the grand prize. With a total of 36 music program trophies in 2017, Twice recorded the most wins received in a single year. Twice ranked second on Oricon's Breakout Artists of 2017 and became the first overseas female act to achieve a rookie triple crown on the 50th Oricon Annual Ranking. Twice placed first in rookie artist total sales in 2017, with sales reaching 1.54 billion yen, as well as first-place among albums and singles for ''#Twice'' and ''"One More Time"'' respectively. By May the following year, they became the first artist to win seven consecutive Triple Crowns on Inkigayo. Twice received their third consecutive Song of the Year award at the 2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards with ''"What Is Love?"'' from their fifth extended play of the same name, making them the first group to win the award for three consecutive years. Twice topped the list of Korea's most popular music video on YouTube for two consecutive years with ''"Cheer Up"'' (2016) and ''"Knock Knock"'' (2017). In 2020, TWICE became the K-pop girl group with the most music show wins totaling at 106 wins as well as the fastest group to reach that number. Twice were included in Variety's Youth Impact Report 2016—an annual list of young entertainers who have made an impact in the industry over the past year—at number 54 as the only K-pop group on the list. In 2017, Twice received the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Commendation at the Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards. They were the only Asian act on Billboard's 21 Under 21 2017: Music's Next Generation, an annual ranking that highlights some of the world's most powerful young voices across various music genres.
• Sirvienta of Girl Groups
• Queens of Girl Groups
• First girlgroup to reach 100M 100 M views for debut
• First girlgroup to reach 200M 200 M views
• First girlgroup to reach 250M 250 M views
• First girlgroup to reach 300M 300 M views
• First girlgroup to reach 350M 350 M views
• First girlgroup to reach 400M 400 M views
• The highest selling k-pop girlgroup
• Not to mention some of the members are in the rank too cause people do care for their beauty.
• Sana ranked 48 in “Most beautiful faces of 2019”.
• Nayeon is ranked 82nd on TC Candler “The 100 Most Beautiful Faces of 2018”.
• Jeongyeon is ranked 66th on TC Candler “The 100 Most Beautiful Faces of 2018”.
• Mina ranked #91 in “Most beautiful faces of 2019”.
• Dahyun ranked #73 in “Most Beautiful Faces of 2019”.
• First girl group to reach 5M 5 M followers on twitterTwitter.
• Sold Out Tokyo Dome in just 3 minutes.
• Camilla Cabello, Shawn Mendes, Doja Cat, and Sabrina Carpenter likes TWICE.
• Camilla Cabello and Sabrina Carpenter covers TWICE's ''"Candy Pop".''
• Famous Streamers streamers such as Lilypichu, Pokimane,Boxbox, Faker and more , likes to listen to TWICE while playing.
• Military Men address that TWICE is their strength on their military.
• Most of Korea's actors and actresses are ONCE and admires TWICE.
• TWICE's ''"Candy Pop"'' Becomes becomes the Best Selling Japanese Single by a K-pop Girl Group girl group on Oricon in 5 days and 3rd Platinum Certification.
• Twice is #6 in the ranking of best selling girl groups in Japan 2017.
• TWICE's ''<nowiki/>'What is Love?''<nowiki/>' achieves certified allAll-kill!Kill.
• TWICE's ''<nowiki/>'What Is Love?''' breaks previous record for a girl group MV to reach 20 million views in fastest time!.
• TWICE sets the record for most consecutive triple crowns in Inkigayo's history with 7. ALL All of their comeback songs got a triple crown:
- ''"Cheer Up "''
- ''"TT "''
- "Knock Knock"
- ''"Signal "''
- ''"Likey "''
- ''"Heart Shaker"''
- ''"What is love?''
- ''"Dance the night away"''
- ''"Yes or Yes"''
- ''"Fancy"''
• TWICE has become the FIRST and ONLY kpop Kpop act to receive 7 consecutive Triple Crown on Inkigayo!.
• Social media copies TWICE's shy shy shy. There's a challenge tag to make users to take a video of themselves doing TWICE's shy shy shy. Even G-dragon and Suicide Squad noticed the SHY SHY SHY thingy.
• TWICE's fist comeback ''Cheer Up'' is more than a hit, it's a sensation that gives them the title of "Korea's National Girlgroupgirl group".
• Only girl group to win "Melon MelOn Weekly Award" 5 times which is the limit for wins.
• All of girlgroup girl group album sales mixed together isn't even a half of TWICE's sales.
• Broke the one week sales in just three days.
• TWICE is the most succesful and popular girlgroup girl group in JAPANJapan, KOREA AND MANY MORE COUNTRIESKorea and many more countries.
• TWICE HAS has 8 DAESANGS IN JUST daesangs in just 2 YEARSyears. THEY BEAT They beat 2NE1.
• ''BDZ IS THE MOST SOLD OUT ALBUMS IN JAPAN'' is the most Sold Out album in Japan.
• LIKE ''Like OOH -AHH RANK '' ranked #88 IN BILLBOARDin Billboard.
• ''CHEER UP RANK '' ranked #32 IN BILLBOARDin Billboard.
• TWICE IS THE ONLY GIRLGROUP WHO CAN DO A CUTE AND CHEERING CONCEPT PERFECTLYis the only girl group who can do cute and cheering concept perfectly.
• TWICE peaked #5 on Billboard Social Peak #550.
• Billboard worldwide digital song sales peak TWICE peaked #2on Billboard Worldwide Digital Song Sales.
• Billboard worldwide album sales peak TWICE peaked #3on Billboard Worldwide Album Sales.
• 34 songs charting inside the LINE MUSIC's 2018 kpop Kpop year-end chart top 100.
• They are the only Girl Group girl group to receive the Daesang ever Ever since the award show started.
• TWICE is the one and only group Wining wining New K-Wave Favorite Female Bias Award (Popularity Award) at the Soribada Awards 2 years in a row.
• First Idol Group and only girl group to win 2 CONSECUTIVE SOTYshave 8 consecutive songs to debut at #1 on Gaon Digitals Chart breaking SISTAR's record.
• First Idol Group to win 8 CONSECUTIVE Triple Scored Quadruple Crowns of no.1's on InkiGayoGaon chart in April, 18 (Digital+Download+Streaming+Social).
• First and only Girl Group to have 8 CONSECUTIVE songs to debut at #1 on Gaon Digitals Chart breaking SISTAR's record83 show wins (36 show wins in 2017 alone which is the highest number of wins for any Kpop group in a year).
• Scored Quadruple crowns of No.1's Highest Selling girl group on Gaon chart in April, 18 (Digital+Download+Streaming+Social)with over 2.7 million sales.
• 83 show wins (36 show wins in 2017 alone which is the Highest no. selling girl group of wins for any kpop group 3rd generation with over 4 million Album Sales in a yeartotal. (Korean and Japanese combined).
• Highest Selling Girl Group 2 Consecutive Platinum Certifications on Gaon with over 2.7 Million sales''What is Love?'' and ''Summer Nights'' after the introduction of Gaon Certification system.
• Highest selling Girl Group of 3rd generation with over 4 Million Album Sales in total. Appeared 6+ times on Music Station (Korean and Japanese combinedFirst Kpop group to appear after 5 years by any Kpop group) .
• 2 Consecutive Platinum Certifications Girl group with Highest First Week sales record on Gaon Hanteo with ''What is Love'' and ''Summer Nights'' after the introduction of Gaon Certification system200K+.
• First Female Foreign Artist to achieve Double Platinum on a single Album ''"Wake Me Up"'' on RIAJ.
• First Foreign Artist in Japan to win Triple Crowns on Oricon Chart, coming in at #1 for Rookie Artist Total Sales+OMT on Oct.18+ ''#TWICE'' album on the Rookie Artist Album Chart.
• 1st Asian artist to win 5 awards in Japan GDA nicknamed Asia's No.1 Girl Group even before reaching their 3rd year by a long shot.
• Revived hallyu in Japan.
• The only K-Pop Group group with a PAK in the year 2017. ''(Knock Knock)''
• The only K-Pop Group group besides BTS to top Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart and the Billboard World Albums Chart simultaneously with First Studio album ''<nowiki/>'Twicetagram'''.
• Girl Group group with highest combined digital points on Gaon in 2018 with an index of +1 Billion points.
• Surpassed 3 Billion digital points in aggregate on Gaon Chart (2017+2018 only).
• FIRST and ONLY Idol group with 3 songs to exceed 2.5 Million downloads on Gaon after the price change in 2013.''(CUCheer Up, TT '' and LOA''Like OHH-AHH).''
• With over 12.7 Million Downloads on Gaon Chart upto Aug,18 ; TWICE became digitally the BEST SELLING GIRL GROUP Best Selling Girl Group from 3rd Generation.
• First and only K-Pop Girl Group girl group to achieve 4 #1 songs on Gaon Chart all in the same year 2017, first to achieve this since BIGBANG in 2015.
• 2nd Most viewed Korean Girl Group girl group with a combined tally of over 2 Billion views (excluding Japanese MVs).
• Sold over 1.4 Million albums in 2017 alone which was 240K more than the added cumulative sales of 14 other top girl groups for the year.
• The only K-Pop Group group to have 2 albums in the top 10 Best-Selling albums in the first half of 2017 on Gaon.
• The only K-Pop Group group in 6 years after SNSD, TVXQ and KARA to get invited to the prestigious Kohaku Uta Gassen in Japan within just 6 months from Japanese debut.
• No.1 in Singer Brand Reputation for 8 CONSECUTIVE consecutive months in 2017 which is the highest for any girl group.
• Became the First and Only K-Pop Group group in July, 2017 to have all their title songs listed in the "Melon MelOn Hall of Fame".
• Became the First Female Kpop Group group to reach 300 Million and 400 Million views respectively on an MV (with ''TT).''
• ''"Heart Shaker"'' achieved the highest score by any artist on Music Core in 2017 after the new system was implemented & and it was the all time 2nd highest score too.
• Became the K-Pop Girl Group girl group with the Most Number of Daesangs - 5 Daesangs in a single year (2017):
i) Korean Cable TV Awards: Daesang Grand Prize
v) MAMA: SOTY
• On Sept 12, 2018 TWICE's 1st Japanese studio album '<nowiki/>''BDZ''<nowiki/>' was fully released. A total of 89,721 copies of '''BDZ''<nowiki/>' got sold on Day 1 making TWICE the K-Pop girl group with the BEST FIRST DAY Album Sales ever on Oricon.
• TT (Kor.) set a new record for becoming the kpop Kpop song with highest number of weeks spent on Japan Billboard Hot 100 by charting for over 100 weeks.
• Most viewed Kpop Girl Group girl group on YouTube with over 3 Billion combined views.
• Became the First Foreign Artist to open the stage at Tokyo Girls Collection 2018.
• ''Cheer Up'' with 200,000 hearts is the girl group song with the most no. of hearts on MelOn.
• Artist with the most no. of weeks at #1 on Gaon Social Chart with 51 weeks.39) . Girl Group group with Most Number of Weeks at #1 on Gaon (14 weeks) and at #3 on All Time ranking Artists after IU at #1 and BIGBANG at #2 on the same chart.
• First Female Foreign Artist to achieve an “All Kill” by ranking #1 on Oricon (Daily+Weekly+Monthly ) Charts with ''BDZ''.
• Thus TWICE are the First Foreign Female Artist to top the weekly singles + album chart and then achieve one more record by topping the monthly chart as well.
• First Korean Girl girl group and the only korean Korean act besides BTS to have 3 pure Korean albums with Gold Certification i.e. 100K sales each on Oricon.
• First Korean group to get a viewership as high as 42.7% on Kohaku Uta Gassen with over 54 Million live streamers, i.e. more than the Korean population and twice as much as Grammy viewership.
• Girl Group group with Most the most #1 songs on GAON along with 2NE1 & and SISTAR -9.
• Girl Group group with Most no. most number of weeks at #1 on GAON - : 15.
• Achieved Quadruple Crown (Physical, Overall Digital, Download & Social) on GAON charts.
• The ONLY Girl Group girl group to rank on the TOP 10 All Time Million Sellers on GAON (since 2010). TWICE is at #4 having sold over 2.8M 8 M copies in just 3 years. With YOY, TWICE is said to have crossed 3M 3 M sales already which promotes them to the #3 spot.
• The Only Girl Group to rank amongst Top 10 Most searched artist on Naver in 2018.
• #1 Most searched girl group on Melon MelOn for 9 months in 2018, the highest ever.
• Only Korean act other than BIGBANG to win 2 SOTY Daesangs in the same year with 2 different songs ''(What is Love ?'' and ''Heart Shaker).''
• Only Korean girl group to achieve PAKs for two consecutive years.
• Only Girl Group girl group to win Bonsangs in both Physical as well Digital at GDA and that too for two consecutive years (2017-2018). They won the Digital Daesang in 2016.
• TWICE is THE ONLY GROUP EVER the only group ever to win Artist of The Year for 2 months for 2 different songs in the digital category for a whopping streak of 3 years in a row at the GAON chart Awards:
1) 2016-CU ''Cheer Up'' (April), ''TT '' (Oct)
2) 2017-KK ''Knock Knock'' (Feb), HS ''Heart Shaker'' (Dec)
3) 2018-WIL''What Is Love? (''April), DTNA ''Dance The Night Away'' (July).53)
• First Girl Group girl group ever to have sold out 210,000 attendance on dome tour, their very first dome tour that is.
• Second kpop Kpop girl group in history to reach #1 on US iTunes Album Chart.
• Reached #1 on WORLDWIDE Worldwide and European iTunes Album , #1 on Worldwide Digital Song Sales with ''Feel Special '' while ''Fancy'' placed at #4 both on World Album & Worldwide Digital Song Sales.
• TWICE charted for the first time on Canada's Billboard HOT 100 Chart at #82 with ''<nowiki/>'Feel Special'''.
• TWICE is the fastest Kpop group to reach 1B streamings on Spotify since they started using the platform in 2018. They are also the 3rd & and only kpop Kpop group to have multiple songs reaching 100M 100 M streams in Spotify.
• TWICE made the list of Spotify's most streamed female artists globally in 2019. Only 2 kpop Kpop girl groups made the list, one of them being TWICE!.
• ''FANCY'' is the 3rd best selling kpop Kpop song in the US with 300K sales (ps. US ONCEs buy and streaming it to 500K for a RIAA gold certification. TT is at 450K too!)
• ''<nowiki/>'Fancy''' is the 3rd kpop Kpop group song with the highest digital points on Gaon.
• ''Fancy'' is the girl group song with the most unique listeners on Melon MelOn in the first 24 hours (763,049).
• TWICE is the first girl group ever to sell more than 150K albums in the first week of release on Hanteo (151,051) with ''<nowiki/>'Fancy You'''.
• ''Feel Special'' sells 154,028 in it's its first week on Hanteo breaking the numbers of ''<nowiki/>'Fancy You'''. TWICE is still the only girl group to have +150K sales for an album on the first week & thus have the top2 top 2 best selling albums for the first week!.
• TWICE is the girl group with the most Platinum Album Certificates on Gaon (5). They are the only girl group to have two 2019 albums that got certified!.
• In 2019, TWICE got 3 songs certified platinum for having +100M 100 M streams. Tying with BTS, they are the only kpop groups with more than one song certified platinum by Gaon.
• First kpop girl group in history to hold a Dome Tour. ''<nowiki/>'Dreamday''' sold-out within 1min after opening to general sales.