After breaking into the Japanese music market with both Genie & Gee and achieving a huge success with the two songs, the girls of SNSD are hoping to take it further with the release of the Japanese version of Oh! on February 2nd 2011.

'Oh!', the title track of SNSD’s second Korean full studio album, which was released in January 2010 has the type of rhythm and melody close to those of J-pop songs and thus, it is regarded as the Japanese fans’ most anticipated song.

According to SM Entertainment, SNSD’s ‘Oh!’ is also the most popular song among Japanese fans where there were many...

Pre-debut
After the success of S.M. Entertainment's boy band, Super Junior, the company planned to debut a new girl group, which would ultimately turn into Girls' Generation, featuring a start-up roster of 11 members.[12] For nearly two years, Korean websites speculated about which of the female SM Entertainment trainees would be placed into the group. The candidate members were professionally trained primarily in singing and dancing, while some were also selected to be trained in acting and modeling. Many of the candidate members had already made names for themselves in the Korean entertainment...