In South Korea, Welcome to Momoland debuted and peaked at number twenty-eight on the Gaon Album Chart for the week of November 12, 2016. The dance practice video was uploaded on November 16, 2016. A dance version of the music video was released on November 14, 2016. Bae Yoon Jung of Yama & Hot Chicks served as the choreographer of the video.
The accompanying music video for the song was uploaded onto 1theK's YouTube channel simultaneously with the single's release. It served as the lead single for their first extended play, Welcome to Momoland.
The single was released on Novemby Duble Kick Entertainment and distributed by Kakao M as the group's debut single. Prior to the release, a teaser of "Jjan! Koong! Kwang!" and its music video were released online on November 3, 2016. Duble Sidekick was also reported to worked on the single. On October 20, 2016, the group's debut single was officially announced. "Welcome to Momoland" and "Jjan! Koong! Kwang!" were also performed on The Show. The group also promoted "Jjan! Koong! Kwang!" on several music programs in South Korea including Inkigayo, Music Bank, Show Champion, Show! Music Core and Simply K-Pop. Momoland made their debut performance of their single "Jjan! Koong! Kwang!" on Novemthrough music television program M Countdown. Welcome to Momoland was released on Novemby Duble Kick Entertainment and distributed by Kakao M as the group's debut extended play. Momoland held their debut showcase on November 9, 2016. The group's debut was later successfully crowdfunded, raising about 10 million won. According to Duble Sidekick in September 2016, the debut single of the group was delayed due to lack of spectators and the group failed to gather the amount they needed. Created by Duble Kick Entertainment, which a group of seven members were selected from ten trainees. At that moment, he looked so cool and so handsome.Momoland was formed in Mnet's survival reality show Finding Momoland which premiered in June 2016. But PSY paid me 10 million won just for that one dance move. “I was grateful just for the fact that he was using at all, but then he said, ‘Since I’m using your choreography, I’ll pay you a copyright fee for it.’ I would have been thankful even if he hadn’t paid me anything, but since he said he would, I replied, ‘Oh, thank you so much!'”īae Yoon Jung continued, “Back then, I was getting paid 3 million to 4 million won to choreograph an entire three- to four-minute song. For me, it was like, ‘Wow, he wants to use my choreography? Of course. “PSY asked me if he could use just that part of the choreography,” she went on, “and from my perspective, I was just grateful. He said that no matter much he tried out other choreographies, he kept thinking that the ‘arrogant dance’ was the perfect fit. “Brown Eyed Girls’ ‘arrogant dance’ had been a huge hit, and PSY said one day that while he was working on ‘Gentleman,’ he couldn’t think of any other dance move for the choreography.
“I was so grateful to him,” recalled Bae Yoon Jung. PSY’s choreography for his 2013 track “ Gentleman” was originally created for Brown Eyed Girls’ smash hit “Abracadabra,” which had everyone imitating its signature dance move back in 2009.Īs Bae Yoon Jung was the original choreographer for “Abracadabra,” PSY reached out to her to ask for her permission to use the famous dance move, which had earned the nickname the “arrogant dance” in Korea. Choreographer Bae Yoon Jung expressed her gratitude to PSY on the latest episode of “ Radio Star”!īae Yoon Jung, who is famous for coming up with the iconic choreographies for hit songs like EXID‘s “ Up & Down,” T-ara’s “Bo Peep Bo Peep,” KARA’s “Mister,” and the “Produce 101” theme song “ Pick Me,” made a guest appearance on the November 10 episode of the MBC talk show.Īs many already know, when PSY was getting ready for his first comeback after the explosive success of his 2012 hit “ Gangnam Style,” the singer chose to reuse one of K-pop’s most famous choreographies for his next song.
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