The ‘female SuperM’, K-pop group Girls on Top to feature Aespa pair, BoA, Taeyeon of Girls’ Generation and other familiar faces
- Girls on Top, supergroup formed by SM Entertainment, the label behind the boy-band equivalent SuperM, features seven of K-pop’s biggest female stars
- Newly announced, the group are slated to perform at the label’s New Year concert on January 1 and release their first song two days later
K-pop fans rejoice: Girls on Top is coming, a group featuring some of the biggest names of the past two decades.
Girls On Top are slated to perform together for the first time on New Year’s Day at SM Entertainment’s New Year concert, and their first song will be released on January 3.
Each of the singers and their respective groups have, at various times over the past two decades, fronted K-pop’s rise to global popularity.
Girls On Top shares a name with BoA’s 2005 single and album of the same name. Active since 2000, the now 35-year-old singer is considered one of the leading icons of K-pop.
Most of SM Entertainment’s biggest K-pop female acts since 2000 are represented in Girls On Top’s line-up, although there is no one from f(X), who launched in 2009 but are currently inactive.
SM Entertainment has a history of cross-label collaborations between different artists and groups, but SuperM and Girls On Top are the first official collaborative groups created for some years.
The unveiling of Girls On Top comes after months of rumours, and hours ahead of the release of the label’s collaborative album SMTown 2022: SMCU Express, at 5pm on December 27.