Before I even begin this post I will beg and plead that you PLEASE do not steal these charts and claim them as your own. It has literally taken me years to collect and find all of this information. If you must post them on a website please credit me as the creator and provide a link to my blog that is all I ask.
So i'm back again with an even larger list then last year. I'll admit that some of the older groups like from 2005 back my not be as up to date as I would like but the more current groups are as up to date as I could manage with the crazy year i've had.
You might have noticed that the list has changed a bit from last year. That's because I found a few bands I had put on there by mistake and had to remove them and I found a few new sources which had a large number of groups I didn't have on the list.
How To Read The Chart
[The year they debut is in the left black bar as well as along the top and bottom of the chart. The name of the group is in a colored square and a corresponding square with the same color shows the length of time that group has been active. On the right are color letters, BG, GG, M, and D.
BG stands for Boy Group, this is for groups of all genres that have all male members.
GG stands for Girl Group, this is for groups of all genres that have all female members.
M stands for Mixed Group, this is for groups that have both male and female members.
*Side note, if a group debut as a mixed group but later became a BG or GG I gave then the label of Mixed group if that is how they debut.*
D stand for Duo, a group that only has two members. The neon blue D is for duos with two males, the red D is for duos with two females, and the lime green D is for duos with one female and one male.
If a group started out as a group and then became a duo they were given a group status since that was what they debut as.
Most of the older groups are presumed to be disbanded, but if I could not find a website to confirm it I did not put it.]
(Sorry I had to take screenshots of my excel spread sheet, blogspot does not allow you to upload PDF's.)
(Sorry I had to plaster my watermark all over it, but I knew people will steal it and not credit me and this took a long time to make so I want my credit.)
DISCLAIMER: Allow me to state right now that all the information is not 100% accurate. I also had multiple sources contradicting others on such things as when a group debut or when they disbanded. In those cases if two sites had different dates I went with the year the group released their first album/single. If there is an error in the information I am more then willing to correct it, however you must provide me with a link of some kind that will show me proof of the date you are claiming the group debut in (or some type of proof). Also activity is dictated by albums/singles/mini album releases. If the group last released an album in 2004, but have released songs for OST in 2005, I did not count that as active on the chart, because often OST's will credit an entire group when only two members participated in the OST.
I hope international fans find this useful for discovering old school kpop groups. Also I hope this will make fans stop complaining about the large number of rookies that debut each year. As you can clearly see from the chart, as each year has pasted more and more groups have debut and this will continue to happen (unless Korea's economy takes a dive and smaller companies are unable to stay afloat and put out more groups) but more then likely more groups will continue to debut each year.
PLEASE let me know if I left anyone off the list especially groups from the 1980's. (please remember that this list is for groups only, not solo artist or bands)
This is an ongoing project I hope to continue for as many years as I can.
