"Good-bye Baby" is a song recorded by K-pop girl group Miss A for their debut studio album A Class. "Good-bye Baby" topped the Gaon Digital Chart for two weeks and became one of the best-performing singles of 2011.
Background and release On July 11, 2011 Miss A first teased their comeback nine months after their second single album Step Up, for July 18, 2011, in which the title song "Good-bye Baby" was symbolically written. On July 18, 2011, both the music video for "Good-bye Baby" and their first studio album A Class were released.
Composition "Good-bye Baby" lyrics were written by Park Jin-young and composed by Park Jin-young and Shim Eun-ji. The song is composed in the key G-sharp minor and has 138 beats per minute and a running time of 3 minutes and 46 seconds. "Good-bye Baby" captured the ears of music fans at once with a powerful hip-hop rhythm and acoustic shuffle soul in the story of a woman who relentlessly abandons a flirting man.
Promotion On July 21 2011, Miss A held their first comeback stage for the song on Mnet's M Countdown they also performed on M Countdown on July 28. Miss A performed on KBS's Music Bank on July 29 and SBS's Inkigayo on July 31.
Accolades +Music program awards Program Date (3 total) M Countdown July 28, 2011Music Bank July 29, 2011 Inkigayo July 31, 2011
Awards and nominations + Awards and nominations for "Good-bye Baby" Award ceremony Year Category Result Golden Disc Awards 2012 Digital Daesang of the Year Winners from the 26th Golden Disk Awards Digital Bonsang Award Mnet Asian Music Awards 2011Song of the Year Best Dance Performance – Female Group Seoul Music Awards2012 Bonsang Award Winners from the 21st High1 Seoul Music Awards
Charts
Weekly charts + Chart (2011) Peakposition South Korea (Gaon)1 South Korea (K-pop Hot 100)1 US World Digital Songs (Billboard)3
Monthly charts + Chart (July 2011) Peakposition South Korea (Gaon) 4
Year-end charts + Chart (2011) Peakposition South Korea (Gaon) 11
Sales Country Sales South Korea Cumulative sales for Good-bye Baby:3,613,664
Release history + Release history for "Good-bye Baby" Region Date Format Label Various July 18, 2011
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