KPOP 3rd generation · SOURCE MUSIC
GFRIEND
PAK ×11 song with a PAK (iChart)Rough64 times
ジーフレンド / 여자친구
GFRIEND matched wistful, adolescent melodies with group dance so precise that even the arm angles line up.
- 2015DebutJan 16, 2015
- 6Members
- 3thGeneration
- BUDDYFandom
Last updated:
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In 30 seconds: GFRIEND
Glass Bead through Navillera holds the school-uniform years, Time for the Moon Night and Sunrise turn narrative, and Apple and MAGO are fully grown-up.
Start here if synchronised dancing is what you watch for; nobody in the third generation did it more exactly.
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Key facts
- Group name
- GFRIEND
- Reading / Hangul
- ジーフレンド / 여자친구
- Company
- SOURCE MUSIC
- Debut date
- January 16, 2015
- Days active
- 4,306 days (11 years, 9 months)
- Debut song
- Glass Bead
- Generation
- 3rd generation
- Fandom name
- BUDDY(バディ)
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Member guide
Profile comparison
| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ソウォン | 1995-12-07 | 30 | 173cm | A | INFP | South Korea |
| イェリン | 1996-08-19 | 30 | 168cm | O | ENFJ | South Korea |
| ウナ | 1997-05-30 | 29 | 163cm | O | ISTP | South Korea |
| ユジュ | 1997-10-04 | 29 | 170cm | B | ENFJ | South Korea |
| シンビ | 1998-06-03 | 28 | 166cm | AB | ISFP | South Korea |
| オムジ | 1998-08-19 | 28 | 165cm | O | INFJ | South Korea |
Ages are as of 2026-10-31.
Selected releases
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Start here
Follow a few songs from the starting point to the group's current sound.
Season of Memories
Me Gustas Tu MVMe Gustas Tu is the early signature and the best first impression of the concept.
Rough MVRough is the biggest of the singles and the emotional high point of the early years.
MAGO MVMAGO is the late, confident one and sounds like a completely different group.MVView in JapaneseDance PracticeView in JapanesePerformanceView in JapaneseLiveView in JapaneseStageView in JapaneseAudioView in Japanese
View all official videos →05
From debut to now
- 2015Glass Bead and Me Gustas Tu widened the sense of youth and the precise group choreography particular to GFRIEND.
- 2016Rough won support as a lyrical signature song, and Navillera widened a bright sense of speed.
- 2017The harder Fingertip and the cool, clear Love Whisper widened the range of the group.
- 2018They deepened a lyrical world while building the route through releases aimed at the Japanese market.
- 2019Running a Korean comeback and Japanese releases in parallel, they strengthened a mood beyond the cool clarity.
- 2020The album series of that period pushed storytelling and matured visuals forward, and MAGO left a hard entrance to the final stretch.
- 2021The contract with SOURCE MUSIC ended, group activity reached a close, and the members moved into individual work.
- 2025Ahead of the tenth anniversary a context of regrouping appeared, opening a route back from the older work to the present.
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Achievements
Key milestones
Charts and PAK
Perfect All-Kill (PAK)
1 recordNewest release first (iChart does not publish achievement dates)
Provider record list at the time of retrieval. Changes before the first observation are unknown. (some episodes unverified)
Each record is checked against its source. These are within the collected period, not lifetime totals.
Verified information
Verified English information is not yet available for this section.
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Official links
Official site
Official social accounts and platforms
Shopping guide
Verified English shopping links are not yet available.
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KPOP DISCOVER's GFRIEND note
What anchors GFRIEND is a cool clarity with a sense of youth in it and precise group choreography. The six-piece girl group debuted from SOURCE MUSIC in 2015, and Me Gustas Tu and Rough became important entrances to third-generation girl groups.
Following the releases in order shows the change, from the sense of youth running from Glass Bead to Navillera, through the storytelling of Time for the Moon Night and Sunrise, to the matured concepts of Apple and MAGO. The strength is that the fine formations and the sense of a single body can be checked on screen as well as in the melodies, which makes the dance practices more important than the music videos.
The contract with the company ended in 2021, group activity reached a close, and the members moved into individual work. Me Gustas Tu, then Time for the Moon Night, then MAGO covers the sense of youth, the storytelling and the maturity.
Editors' take Me Gustas Tu / Time for the Moon Night / MAGO — a SOURCE MUSIC six-piece that came to stand for the third generation through cool clarity and precise group choreography.
Trivia worth knowing
GFRIEND and BUDDY connect naturally, both names sitting on the idea of a friend.
The dance practice videos show what makes GFRIEND special, with formation changes and even the angle of an arm in line.
The rain-soaked stage of Me Gustas Tu is still cited whenever professionalism comes up.
Crossroads, Apple and MAGO are the key to the later years of GFRIEND.
Japanese releases such as Kyou Kara Watashitachi wa, Memoria and Fallin' Light repay being followed in order.
Eunha, SinB and Umji went on to VIVIZ, which carries the line forward after GFRIEND.
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Japan activity score
KPOP DISCOVER original metric
No. 94/ 241 groups
No. 94 of 241 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 39%)
- 4Japanese releases
- 8Japan-related tracks
- 0Members from Japan
- 0Official Japanese accounts
The denominator is the 241 groups, out of 564 covered by KPOP DISCOVER, whose raw score reaches at least one point. The score adds 10 points per Japanese-market release, 3 per Japan-related track, 12 per member from Japan, and 8 per official Japanese account. Japanese-market releases carry the most weight because they are the most direct evidence of activity; related tracks add track-level detail; members from Japan stand for Japanese-language communication and continuity; official accounts stand for a permanent point of contact. The weights are an editorial judgement, not a statistical optimisation, and the ranking tracks release volume in Japan closely. Source: releases, tracks, members, and official links recorded by KPOP DISCOVER (updated 2026-10-24).
How this score is calculated →View in JapaneseFrequently asked questions
What defines GFRIEND?
Glass Bead through Navillera holds the school-uniform years, Time for the Moon Night and Sunrise turn narrative, and Apple and MAGO are fully grown-up.
Why should a new listener start with GFRIEND?
Start here if synchronised dancing is what you watch for; nobody in the third generation did it more exactly.
Which songs should a new listener try first?
Start with Me Gustas Tu, Rough, MAGO, then continue to the official video index.