aespa’s debut date: November 17, 2020.
"Black Mamba" is aespa's debut song released on November 17, 2020. Once the song was released, it attracted the attention of many fans and netizens. aespa also won the 2020 Asian Award for this song The "Best New Singer" award at the Pop Music Awards (Asian Pop Music Awards).
It is worth mentioning that before January 8, 2021, the MV of "BLACK MAMBA" was only released on YouTube for 51 days and 12 hours, and the number of views exceeded 100 million times. It became the fastest MV for a K-POP singer’s debut song to reach 100 million views.
In addition to "BLACK MAMBA", aespa has also released song albums such as "Forever", "Next Level", "Savage", "Dreams Come True", etc. Among them, the release of "Next Level" made aespa has become a veritable "sound source queen".
Dominating the three major charts of the US Billboard has become an important symbol of aespa’s global expansion. Korean Entertainment has learned that aespa’s first mini album "Savage" will be released on October 5, 2021. In just 15 days after its release, sales exceeded 510,000 copies, which once again confirmed aespa's global popularity.
Early stage of debut:
On October 26, 2020, SM Entertainment released a video on its official account, announcing the name and logo of the aespa group. This is the first idol group launched by SM Entertainment four years after the boy group NCT was launched in 2016. It is also the first girl group launched after six years after Red Velvet in 2014.
From October 27th to 29th, SM successively revealed photos of members WINTER (Kim Minhyang), KARINA (Yoo Jimin), NINGNING (Ning Yizhuo) and (GISELLE) Nainaga Eri; on the same day , at aespa's press conference, SM founder Lee Soo Man announced that the group will consist of four idol members and four virtual members.
Creating "a future world centered on celebrities and their avatars, transcending the boundaries between the real world and the virtual world", a teaser video was also released showing off the virtual member ?-KARINA and the AI ??image Naevis.