What is this South Korean-Chinese boy group formed by S.M. Entertainment in 2011 initially with several members and broke up a year later that released the song "Mama" in 2012?
Exo (band) Exo (Korean: 엑소 ; stylized as EXO) is a South Korean-Chinese boy group based in Seoul. Formed by S.M. Entertainment in 2011, the group debuted in 2012 with twelve members separated into two subgroups, Exo-K (Suho, Baekhyun, Chanyeol, D.O., Kai, and Sehun) and Exo-M (Xiumin, Lay, Chen and former members Kris, Luhan and Tao ), performing music in Korean and Mandarin respectively. Exo's first album "XOXO" (2013), which contained the breakthrough hit "Growl", was a critical and commercial success, winning both Disk Daesang at the 28th Golden Disk Awards and Album of the Year at the 15th Mnet Asian Music Awards. It sold over one million copies, making Exo the best-selling Korean artist in twelve years. Subsequent albums and EPs continued with strong sales, and Exo were ranked the most influential celebrity by "Forbes" Korea Power Celebrity for the years 2014 and 2015. They have been named "the biggest boyband in the world" by media outlets.
M-Girls M-Girls (), nicknamed Malaysia's version of S.H.E is a four-member Malaysian girl group that was formed in late 2000, mainly releasing Chinese New Year albums every year for the Malaysian Chinese community. The group originally consisted of Queenzy Cheng Koon Si (莊群施), Angeline Khoo Yen Nee (邱燕妮 a.k.a. Ah Ni 阿妮, formerly known as Xiao Ni Ni 小妮妮), Crystal Ong Shir Ching(王雪晶), and Cass Chin Yan Zi (陳金燕), who left in 2005 to study but later came back in late 2012. Their albums are sold in Malaysia, Singapore, China, Indonesia, the United States and in some other parts of the world. In some countries, only their bootlegged albums can be found. Due to the increased popularity of online streaming and unlicensed albums, their company StarMedia decided to stop producing Chinese New Year Albums by M-Girls, with their final Chinese New Year album titled "True Joy". Their final performance as a group was on 23 February 2014, a couple of weeks after the release of their Mini Album, My Way. Although Angeline moved to China to study, the remaining members continued to promote their latest album. It was later confirmed that M-Girls would be releasing another CNY album for 2015 called 新春佳期 which translates to New Spring Holiday Pre-orders for their latest Chinese New Year album was announced through social media on 18 November 2016, titled 过年要红红 which roughly translates to The New Year Needs to be Red and will mark the first time Crystal has not released a Chinese New Year album since her debut in 1994.