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New Jeans (2022)

Where the lyrics of New Jeans take you, and where it was really made.

The EP set a pre-order record before any stage appearance, yet its recording studio can only be pinned to the center of Seoul on the map.

Key places

Recording location in Seoul (2022)

Recording site Big Hit Studios, Seoul — The EP was recorded at Hybe Studio in Seoul. The dot sits at the city center of Seoul, not at the studio building itself. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: Private company studio, not open to visitors.

Album story

Overview

• New Jeans: debut extended play by South Korean girl group NewJeans
• Released August 1, 2022 by ADOR, a subsidiary of Hybe Corporation
• Produced by Min Hee-jin, 250, and Park Jin-su
• Draws from synth-pop and R&B, with elements of 1990s and 2000s musical styles
• Singles: “Attention”, “Hype Boy”, and “Cookie”
• Four tracks in total, with the closing song “Hurt”

Background

• Lineup reportedly finalized in March 2022 under ADOR (All Doors One Room)
• Group created under the direction of Min Hee-jin, a former visual director at SM Entertainment
• Min Hee-jin was also chief brand officer at Big Hit Entertainment, Hybe’s predecessor
• The single “Attention” and its music video were released without prior announcement of the lineup
• The debut self-titled EP was announced after that single
• “Hype Boy” released as the second single on July 23
• A music video for “Hurt” released two days after “Hype Boy”
• Pre-orders for the EP opened on July 25
• Digital release on August 1, physical distribution on August 8
• Min said having three singles for a four-track EP reflected how confident she was in the music

Recording

• Recording location in Seoul is recorded in the candidate list, but no studio address or detail is given in the source

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• NewJeans is a South Korean girl group formed by ADOR, a sub-label of Hybe.
• The group was originally a quintet; Danielle had her contract terminated in 2025.
• Members of the group are Minji, Hanni, Haerin, and Hyein.
• Initial preparations began in 2019, with Min Hee-jin as creative director; the project moved to ADOR in late 2021.
• The group debuted in July 2022 with the single "Attention".

Members

• Current members: Minji, Hanni, Haerin, Hyein.
• Former member: Danielle (2022–2025).
• Hanni is Vietnamese-Australian and Danielle is Australian-born; both had pre-debut experience in Melbourne and South Korean television.

Career

• The self-titled debut EP was released in August 2022; its physical version sold over one million copies.
• "Ditto" from the first single album OMG (January 2023) became the longest-running number-one song on the Circle Digital Chart.
• The second EP Get Up (July 2023) reached number one on the US Billboard 200.
• The group released "Supernatural" and "Right Now" in June 2024, marking its official Japanese debut.
• A contract dispute with Hybe began in 2024 and led to court injunctions, a hiatus, and Haerin and Hyein returning to ADOR in late 2025.

Reception

At release

• Music critics generally complimented the EP’s musical styles and considered it a solid debut effort
• Carmen Chin of NME gave three out of five stars, citing the group’s musical ability and the label’s bold artistic vision
• NME said the group had laid solid groundwork for a bright future as trailblazers
• Joshua Minsoo Kim of Pitchfork wrote that the launch was the most elaborate campaign in K-pop that year
• Pitchfork described the EP as a plush and stylish collection of '90s and '00s-indebted R&B production
• In December 2022, Rolling Stone ranked the EP number 46 in its list of best 100 albums of 2022
• Rolling Stone described the EP as having a unique sound and fresh visual component, leaning on a Nineties pop aesthetic that suits the band

Records

• Pre-orders exceeded 444,000 copies, a record for stock pre-orders of any Korean girl group debut album
• South Korea: debuted at number one on the Circle Album Chart
• South Korea: Million certification from the Korea Music Content Association
• First day: over 262,800 combined copies sold
• Spotify Korea: 2.06 million streams on the first day, the most for any K-pop girl group debuting in 2022
• Singles “Attention” and “Hype Boy” placed in the top two of Korean Spotify’s Daily Top Songs for two consecutive days
• “Cookie” ranked third on the second day of release
• Charted in Croatia, Germany, Hungary, and Japan

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Pre-orders passed 444,000 copies before the EP was even out, a record for a Korean girl group debut.
• Min said having three singles for a four-track EP showed how confident she was in the music.
• On August 4 the group made its debut stage on Mnet’s M Countdown, performing all three lead singles.
• A pop-up store at The Hyundai, Seoul, was scheduled to open from August 11 to 31 to sell official merchandise.
• First-day sales broke the record set by labelmate Le Sserafim’s Fearless, which sold 175,000 albums on its first day in May.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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