Oh My Girl debuted in April 2015 under WM Entertainment. The band had a quite straightforward concept shown in its name: To become “My Girl” of the public. The band started as a team of eight, then member JinE left in 2017 and Jiho in 2022.
The group released songs “Closer” (2015), “Liar Liar” (2016), “Windy Day” (2016), “Secret Garden” (2018), “Remember Me” (2018), “SSFWL” (2019) and “Bungee (Fall In Love)” (2019), but is best known for its recent hits “Dun Dun Dance” (2021), “Dolphin” (2020) and “Nonstop” (2020).
In 2018, members Arin, Yubin and Hyojung formed the subunit Oh My Girl Banhana to drop the comical song “Banana Allergy Monkey.”
All six remaining group members renewed their contracts with the agency in May 2022. WM Entertainment was acquired by RBW in 2021, putting Oh My Girl under the same umbrella as girl group Mamamoo and boy band Oneus.
Is Oh My Girl popular?
The girl group is considered a late bloomer, having had to wait for years to top the charts. But it has slowly but consistently grown in fandom size and chart performance.
A major turning point in Oh My Girl’s career came in the summer of 2019 when it starred on Mnet’s survival show “Queendom.” The program saw six high-profile girl K-pop acts compete with each other by each releasing a new song on the same day for the prize of a solo comeback show on the cable channel. Oh My Girl finished second, gaining publicity and momentum for its next EP.
The EP’s titular track “Nonstop” (2020), released the following spring, proved to be a smash hit. It became the group’s first song to top major music programs’ charts — eight times in total — and also made it on the 2021 Golden Disc Awards’ Best Digital Song list, as well as being named April 2020’s “Song of the Year” at the 2021 Gaon Chart Music Awards.
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