A1, A-1 or A.1.may refer to:
A-One is a mandopop group created in 2008 under the label Hong Kong Kiss-star entertainment Beijing company (香港Kiss Star娱乐北京有限公司).
A number of names have been used for this group.
Originally Gillian Chung was scheduled to be a performer at the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. But due to the Edison Chen photo scandal, director Zhang Yimou had replaced Twins with A-One. A-One did not make their international debut on August 8 as part of the ceremony.
After 2 years of training the group debuted after Hunan Satellite TV show Happy camp (快乐大本营).
The group members are counted as 3+x where the most popular 3 members are in the group. Sometimes it may have 5 or more members. There had been 10 members in total. The official website describe this fan selection style as democratic (民主) for the 21st century.
A-One Hip-Hop Music Channel – Russian music channel about the most important and actual trends of the youth culture. The musical directions represented on the channel are hip-hop, r’n’b, rap, electronic music, funk, reggae, soul, indie and everything that blended in between.
As of 2015 A-One is broadcast with the help of the satellite ABS-2 (FTA), from the platform “Tricolor TV” in the networks of the cabel TV and IP-TV, mobile communication, OTT-platforms and Smart-TV and also in the TVEVT. The channel is represented in 850 packages of the Russian cabel operators.
1 August 2005 is considered to be the beginning of the A-One twenty-four-hour broadcasting. From 2005 to 2010 the channel established the annual RAMP (Rock Alternative Music Prize). The foreign rock-singers as well as Russian were the nominees of the prize. The winner was picked out by the audience votes. The ceremonies in different years saw a lot of stars such as Korn (2005), Stone Sour (2006), UNKLE and Marilyn Manson (2007), Klaxons (2008) and Franz Ferdinand (2009).