Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKorean pop act Girls Generation will release new studio album “Forever 1” on Aug. 8, their agency SM Entertainment announced on Monday.
It will be their first album in six years and accelerate a comeback movement that began last year.The girl group was originally founded in 2007 as an act with nine members.
It enjoyed strong success with hits including “Girls’ Generation,” “Gee,” “Genie” and “Lion Heart,” running through to 2015.
By that time one member had been fired, cutting the performer numbers to eight.They released their last album “Holiday Night” in 2017 and went on hiatus later the same year, but they made a point of saying that Girls Generation was not disbanding.
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