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Twice is a nine-member South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment in 2015. They rose to domestic fame in 2016 with their hit single "Cheer Up" and have since sold over 9 million albums in South Korea and Japan. The group debuted in Japan in 2017 and became the first Korean girl group to earn platinum certifications from Recording Industry Association of Japan for both an album and single in the same year. They are considered one of the most popular and successful K-pop girl groups of all time.

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Sixteen The Story Begins: Twice (

Twice is a nine-member South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment in 2015. They rose to domestic fame in 2016 with their hit single "Cheer Up" and have since sold over 9 million albums in South Korea and Japan. The group debuted in Japan in 2017 and became the first Korean girl group to earn platinum certifications from Recording Industry Association of Japan for both an album and single in the same year. They are considered one of the most popular and successful K-pop girl groups of all time.

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Twice (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) The Story Begins.[3]
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 Music Awards and Mnet Asian Music Awards.[4][5][6] 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.[7][8] Within 19 months after debut, Twice had already
sold over 1.2 million units of their four EPs and special album[9][10]; in 2019, they became the best-
selling Korean girl group of all-time.[11][12] The group has sold over 9 million albums in South Korea
and Japan as of July 2020.[13] In 2020, Twice signed with Republic Records for American promotions
as part of a partnership with JYP Entertainment.[2]
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.[14][15] It was followed by the
release of Twice's first original Japanese maxi single titled "One More Time" in October. Twice
became the first Korean girl group to earn a platinum certification from the Recording Industry
Association of Japan (RIAJ) for both an album and CD single in the same year.[16][17] Twice ranked
third in the Top Artist category of Billboard Japan's 2017 Year-End Rankings.[18] They have been
dubbed the next "Nation's Girl Group",[19] and their point choreography—including for "Cheer Up",
"TT" and "Signal"—became dance crazes and viral memes imitated by many celebrities.[20][21][22][23]

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