5 DOLLS

5dolls (Korean: 파이브돌스) is a 5-member sub-group comprising the female members of the South Korean dance-pop group Co-Ed School. They debuted with two single tracks "Lip Stains" (입술자국) and "I Mean You" (너 말이야).

On December 27, 2010, it was reported that Co-Ed School would debut a sub-group composed of all its female members and that there would be a new addition to that group, Seo Eun Kyo, a middle school student who originally was a trainee under JYP Entertainment.

On January 20, 2011, after the group's concept photo was released. 5dolls released two promotional videos featuring Jay Park, one called "Lip Stains" and the other one called "It's You", with "It's You" reported as their title track. 5dolls released their first mini album on February 16, 2011 and debuted on M! Countdown on February 17, 2011.^[3]

During their live performances, the group received criticism for presumably lip singing their live performances,^[4] with fans and critiques criticizing that main vocalist Chanmi was carrying the group by being the only vocally capable member, thus having the most lines distributed to her as well as being the only one singing live. this was later denied by leader Soomi and by several MR removed videos posted on youtube. Their next single saw more even distribution of lines.

On March 29, 2011, Hyoyoung was cast for MBC’s upcoming drama, Best Love.

5dolls released their second mini-album Time To Play on May 11, 2011 with their lead single "Like This Or That" (이러쿵 저러쿵); on that same day they also released their video for "Like This Or That". Like This Like That, their third title-track, stands as the highest selling song for a rookie of 2011 with $192,000 USD grossed.^[5] It was later revealed that label mate T-ara's Hyomin was the stylist behind their comeback outfits.




ALBUM LIST:

• Time To Play (2011)