50 Fun Facts About Mamamoo

The name Mamamoo was chosen to evoke which sound, meant to feel familiar to listeners everywhere?

A baby babbling for the first time is the idea behind the name. The group wanted music as instinctively familiar as "mama", a word infants pick up early all over the world.

In the video for which 2015 Mamamoo sleeper hit do three of the four members dress up as men?

Um Oh Ah Yeh is about a girl who falls for a man who turns out to be another girl. Its video of wigs, beards and prosthetic makeup went viral on Facebook as the single climbed to number three in South Korea.

Which 2019 Mnet competition, pitting six female K-pop acts against each other for a comeback show, did Mamamoo win?

Queendom crowned Mamamoo in its October 2019 finale. The prize, a full-length comeback special on Mnet, finally aired in November 2020 under the title Monologue.

Hwasa of Mamamoo says she watched which American singer's performances all night after being criticized for her looks?

Beyoncé became Hwasa's comfort and her lasting musical inspiration. Told that she sang well but did not look the part, she went home and studied the star's stage videos until morning.

Hwasa left Mamamoo's agency in 2023 and signed with P Nation, the label founded by which singer?

Psy founded P Nation in 2018 after leaving YG Entertainment. Hwasa made the move with a flourish, signing while she was a guest at his Summer Swag concert.

Which Mamamoo single topped a Billboard chart and won Best Vocal Performance Group at the 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards?

Hip changed how Mamamoo perform on stage. To manage its demanding choreography, the members swapped their trademark handheld microphones for headsets.

Hwasa of Mamamoo sang Korean lyrics on a 2020 remix of Physical, a hit by which English pop star?

Dua Lipa brought Hwasa in for the remix in March 2020. Three months later the Korean singer released her own first EP.

Mamamoo's 2018–19 run of four EPs gave each member a color and tied each release to which other theme?

Seasons gave the project its name, Four Seasons, Four Colors. It closed in 2019 with White Wind, a winter EP built around Wheein, who chose white as her color.

Solar of Mamamoo joined the Korean cast of which musical for its run from January to March 2024?

Notre-Dame de Paris cast Solar as Esmeralda and brought her second award nomination as a musical actress. Reviewers singled out the dancing she had honed as an idol.

In March 2016, Mamamoo played the K-Pop Night Out showcase at which festival in Austin, Texas?

South by Southwest gave the group an early American stage. Songwriter Siedah Garrett, who saw the set, said she would love to work on their next project.

Which agency formed Mamamoo and went on to buy WM Entertainment, the label of fellow girl group Oh My Girl?

RBW is short for Rainbow Bridge World. It launched Mamamoo in 2014 through its WA Entertainment label and later also bought DSP Media, the home of KARD.

Which debut single by Mamamoo came with a retro-styled video full of cameos, including Baek Ji-young as a producer?

Mr. Ambiguous ends with a hidden-camera prank. Baek Ji-young scolds the rookies for their performance, and their shock is real because nobody had warned them she was acting.

Solar, the oldest of the four Mamamoo members, holds which position in the group besides main vocalist?

Leader is a title Solar carries twice over. She also heads the duo she formed with Moonbyul in 2022, the first official sub-unit to come out of the group.

Which 2019 solo debut single by Hwasa of Mamamoo topped Korea's digital, download and streaming charts at once?

Twit scored what Korean charts call a Triple Crown. Billboard's critics later ranked it eighth among the best K-pop songs of 2019.

Which 2020 Hwasa single about the strain of fame won Best Dance Performance at the Mnet Asian Music Awards?

María won the triple crown on the music show Inkigayo without Hwasa once appearing to perform it. Billboard counted 19 straight weeks for the song in the top ten of its K-pop Hot 100.

Solar and Moonbyul debuted in 2022 with the single Better as which official sub-unit of their group?

Mamamoo+ beat out Two Rabbits, a name the pair considered and later gave to their first EP. The plus sign stands for new concepts added on top of the main group's work.

Mamamoo recorded the song Love for the soundtrack of which hit 2016 drama starring Gong Yoo?

Goblin, formally Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, began on tvN in December 2016 and became a cultural phenomenon. Its writer took the grand prize at the Baeksang Arts Awards.

Solar of Mamamoo and Eric Nam won Best Couple at the 2016 MBC Entertainment Awards for which variety show?

We Got Married paired celebrities as pretend newlyweds, and Solar and Eric Nam stayed on it from April to November 2016. The trophy was her first as a variety entertainer.

The video for Mamamoo's Latin-tinged 2018 hit Starry Night was shot entirely in which country?

New Zealand supplied every backdrop, including a beach in West Auckland. The song went on to earn the group their first platinum certification in South Korea.

Wheein and Hwasa of Mamamoo, graduates of the same arts high school, were both born in which South Korean city?

Jeonju, in North Jeolla, is where Wheein grew up as an only child in her grandmother's home, while Hwasa was the youngest of three daughters.

Which 2019 Mamamoo single, the lead track of the EP White Wind, did Wheein say had the group's hardest dance yet?

Gogobebe borrows from Latin and reggae music and was meant to be livelier than the melancholy EP before it. It reached number two on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart.

On which weekly music show did Mamamoo give their first live performance, the day after their debut EP came out?

M Countdown hosted that first stage on June 19, 2014. Two years later the same show gave Mamamoo one of the eight trophies they collected for the single You're the Best.

Which Mamamoo single shot up the charts after a 2016 Blue Dragon Film Awards performance full of movie-themed ad-libs?

Décalcomanie went viral when Moonbyul used an ad-lib to ask actor Jung Woo-sung for a date. In 2018 a re-recorded version became the group's first Japanese single.

Which Latin-pop single led Mamamoo's 2018 EP Red Moon and reached number four on South Korea's digital chart?

Egotistic matched that peak on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart in the United States. It was the group's fifth top-ten entry there.

Which disco-flavored 2020 Mamamoo single is about longing to have fun together during pandemic isolation?

Dingga was pitched by the group's agency as a dose of vitamin D for people stuck indoors. Teen Vogue called its video of roller derby, diners and arcades punchy and fun.

The title of Mamamoo's 2021 EP WAW, the first release after most members renewed their contracts, stands for what?

Where Are We was a whole project and not only an EP. The four new tracks were followed by a concert and a documentary about the group.

Mamamoo's first world tour, launched in November 2022, carried which title?

My Con opened with three nights in Seoul in November 2022 and crossed Asia. It then reached nine American cities in 2023 before encore shows back home.

On a 2019 Mnet competition show, Mamamoo covered Good Luck, a 2016 hit first recorded by which girl group?

AOA were rivals on the same show, and in that round the two acts traded songs. The older group answered with a performance of a Mamamoo single.

Which debut studio album by Mamamoo features a comic rap battle inspired by the members' one-centimeter height gaps?

Melting arrived in February 2016 with twelve tracks. One of them, the holiday-themed My Hometown, was the first song to carry lyrics by all four members.

Wins on which KBS show, where acts reinterpret a veteran singer's hits, helped make Mamamoo famous in 2015?

Immortal Songs gave the group its first overall win in October 2015 for a cover of a trot number by Bae Ho. The attention sent their two earliest EPs back onto the album chart.

The fan nickname MoonSun pairs Mamamoo's Moonbyul and Solar by borrowing a syllable from which birth name of Solar's?

Kim Yong-sun supplies the Sun, and Moonbyul's family name supplies the Moon. Solar later called her official solo fan club Yongsoonie.

With which 2020 single did Solar of Mamamoo make her official solo debut, winning on The Show five days later?

Spit It Out arrived fourteen months after Solar launched Solarsido, the YouTube channel that drew a million subscribers within nine months.

Moonbyul of Mamamoo made her solo debut in 2018 with Selfish, a single featuring Seulgi of which girl group?

Red Velvet's Seulgi sings on the track, which was also sold as a physical single album alongside an acoustic version of Moonbyul's earlier solo song Love & Hate.

Moonbyul of Mamamoo says a middle-school viewing of which group's Rising Sun performance first drew her to singing?

TVXQ lit the spark. Later, hoping to follow Taeyeon of Girls' Generation, Moonbyul attended an academy run by SM Entertainment.

After leaving Mamamoo's agency for her solo work in 2021, Wheein signed with The L1ve, a label founded by which rapper?

Ravi, a former member of the boy group VIXX, also put her on his own 2022 single Bye. A separate agreement kept Wheein in Mamamoo for group activities.

Wheein of Mamamoo recorded the song With My Tears for the soundtrack of which tvN drama, first aired in 2020?

Hospital Playlist was the first of two tvN dramas to use her voice in 2020. Later that year she sang Shine On You for Record of Youth.

Hwasa of Mamamoo scored a number-one duet called Don't in 2018 after meeting which rapper on a KBS reality show?

Loco was paired with Hwasa on Hyena on the Keyboard, and she helped write and compose their song. The two reunited in 2022 for the single Somebody.

Appearances by Hwasa of Mamamoo on which MBC reality show were credited with lifting food sales across South Korea?

I Live Alone follows single celebrities through their everyday routines. Viewers copied what Hwasa ate on it, and sales rose for the dishes, the recipes and even the accessories she used.

Hwasa of Mamamoo joined Lee Hyori, Uhm Jung-hwa and Jessi in 2020 in which supergroup formed on a variety show?

Refund Sisters began as a joke by Lee Hyori on Hangout with Yoo. Their debut single, Don't Touch Me, spent two weeks at number one, with the proceeds going to charity.

Which 2017 EP, led by the single Yes I Am, gave Mamamoo a first number one on Billboard's World Albums chart?

Purple also holds Moonbyul's first solo track, Love & Hate, which she wrote about a past relationship of her own.

Mamamoo's pre-debut single Peppermint Chocolate, a top-ten hit in early 2014, was a collaboration with which singer?

K.Will shared the single with the unknown group four months before their debut. He later took a cameo as a photographer in their first music video.

In the video for You're the Best, the members of Mamamoo fall for a hotel employee while on vacation in which country?

Thailand set the scene for the group's first number-one single. The video ranked among the ten most-watched K-pop clips worldwide in the month it came out.

Which lead single from Dark Side of the Moon, the 2020 debut EP by Moonbyul of Mamamoo, blends rock, synth and trap?

Eclipse reached number fourteen on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart. Rolling Stone called its parent EP surprisingly expansive in the genres it explores.

In 2016 Mamamoo's rappers Moonbyul and Hwasa paired up as a subgroup to release which track?

Dab Dab came out the same day as Angel, the matching release by vocalists Solar and Wheein. Both landed on the EP Memory that November, and Angel charted higher.

In 2016 Mamamoo shared a run of the reality series Showtime with which fellow girl group?

GFriend and Mamamoo made it the first Showtime run to feature two groups at once. One episode caught them on opposite American coasts during the KCON festival.

In June 2015 Mamamoo performed in which country's capital to mark 25 years of its diplomatic ties with South Korea?

Mongolia hosted the commemorative concert in Ulaanbaatar. Mamamoo shared the bill with Crayon Pop and K-Much at an event sponsored by the South Korean embassy.

Which producer, a co-founder of Mamamoo's agency, produced the debut EP Hello and co-wrote the hit Starry Night?

Kim Do-hoon also co-wrote several later lead singles. In January 2020 it was he who announced that the members would turn to solo projects that year.

Mamamoo won a vocal award at the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards, staged that year in which Japanese city?

Nagoya was chosen after Hong Kong, a regular host, was judged unsafe during political unrest. More than 40,000 people attended the ceremony at the city's dome.

Which original song did Mamamoo perform in the finale of the 2019 Mnet competition they went on to win?

Destiny opens the album Reality in Black, released two weeks after the win. On its own it reached number seven on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart.

Wheein of Mamamoo made her solo debut in 2018 with Easy, a single featuring which rapper?

Sik-K appears on Easy, the lead track of her single album Magnolia, which came out on April 17, her own birthday.