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Lee Soo-Man's New Girl Group A2O Lite Tops Melon Chart

The debut single runs 3 minutes 28 seconds and uses older-style choreography as Lee Soo-man returns to the K-pop market.

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A2O Lite, the first girl group produced by former SM Entertainment chief Lee Soo-man, reached No. 1 on Korea's largest music streaming platform sho...

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A2O LITE, a new girl group unveiled by SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man, is causing a sensation by topping the Melon Top 100, Korea's largest music platform, just 29 hours after the release of their debut song. The group's debut digital single, "Ni," was released at 6 PM on the 13th.

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The Originator of K-Pop Paid Off: Lee Soo-man's Girl Group Tops Melon Just One Day After Debut. The 9-member group A2O LIGHT's debut song "Neon" embodies the exact Lee Soo-man style of K-Pop, including styling and composition reminiscent of SM's golden age. The essence of K-Pop has returned. A2O, the 9-member rookie girl group created by Lee Soo-man, the producer and founder of SM Entertainment.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Seon-woo = A new girl group A2O LI... unveiled by A2O Entertainment's key producer Lee Soo-man (founder of SM Entertainment)

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"The origins of K-POP have returned." This was the reaction immediately after A2O LITE, a nine-member rookie girl group produced by Lee Soo-man (founder of SM Entertainment) of A2O Entertainment, topped the Korean music charts. Their debut song "NEON," released on the 13th, reached number one on the Melon Top 100 chart at 11 PM on the 14th. This was achieved in just 29 hours since its release, the shortest time for a debut song by a rookie group…

A2O LITE makes history in Melon: number one of the Top 100 a single day after its debut, with Lee Soo Man behind the project. The entry A2O LITE, Lee Soo Man's new group, achieved No.1 in South Korea a day after debuting was first published in What!.

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pannchoa.com broke the news on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
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