''A Class'' is the debut studio album by South Korean-Chinese

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Miss A. The album was released on July 18, 2011, and contains thirteen songs. It contained six singles, including the award-winning "Bad Girl Good Girl".

Background and release

''Bad But Good'', a four-song EP, was released on July 1, 2010. The EP included "Love Again" ("다시 사랑") and "Bad Girl Good Girl", which served as Miss A's first and second singles, released on June 30 and July 1, 2010, respectively. These two tracks plus album track "Break It" were later included on ''A Class''; the track "Looking At Each Other" ("딱 마주쳐)" was not included. The group had their debut performance on July 1, 2010, with "Bad Girl Good Girl" on

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M! Countdown. A second four-track EP, ''Step Up'', was released on September 27, 2010. Its track "Breathe" was used as the promotional single, and all the songs were later added to ''A Class''. The "Breathe" music video shows the Miss A members dancing in a room with stripes of various colors. The members are also shown standing around a large cannon from which member Jia is about to be fired. In July 2011, Miss A announced the upcoming release of their first full-length album called ''A Class''. JYP CEO Park Jin-young uploaded a video of himself at a recording studio with Grammy-winning mixing engineer Manny Marroquin, who has worked with artists like Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, and Bruno Mars. He also showed a 15-second preview of the group's new song "Goodbye Baby", which eventually became the album's lead single. The single was released on July 8, 2011, followed by the ''A Class'' album on July 18. The album's next single, "Love Alone", was specially created for South Korean figure skating champion Kim Yuna's "Ice Show". The group performed the song as special guests on the show as Yuna and other figure skaters danced to the song. It was also the group's first song sung in the English language, and was released on May 2, 2011.

Reception and awards

In 2010, "Bad Girl Good Girl" was awarded the

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Song Of The Month on Cyworld, and placed at number 1 on the Gaon Weekly Digital Charts and number 1 on the 2010 Gaon Yearly Charts. The ''Bad but Good'' EP reached number 6 on the Gaon Weekly Album Chart and number 7 on the monthly chart. The ''Step Up'' EP made it to number 6 on Gaon's Weekly Albums Chart and number 10 on the monthly chart, and "Breathe" reached number 2 on Gaon's Weekly Digital Chart and number 27 for the year. Finally, ''A Class'' reached number 9 on the Gaon Weekly Albums Chart but finished at number 5 for the month and 44 for the year of 2011. "Good Bye Baby" and "Love Alone" went to numbers 1 and 6 on Gaon's Digital Charts, respectively. "Bad Girl Good Girl" went on to win the

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award at the

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Track listing

Charts

Sales and Certifications

References

External links

"Good-bye Baby" music video
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