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About NewJeans

NewJeans were assembled by producer Min Hee-jin under the ADOR label inside the HYBE corporate group through a global audition process that ran across 2019 to 2021. Min Hee-jin had been a senior creative director at SM Entertainment through the SHINee, f(x), and Red Velvet eras before moving to HYBE in late 2019, and ADOR was launched explicitly to give her end-to-end control of a new girl-group project — A&R, visual direction, choreography commissioning, music videos, and label communications all routed through her office rather than through HYBE's central creative function. The lineup that emerged debuted in July 2022 with the single Attention: Minji, the eldest member and lead vocalist born in 2004 in Gyeonggi-do; Hanni, the Vietnamese-Australian lead vocalist born in Melbourne in 2004 who auditioned in Sydney; Danielle, the Korean-Australian lead vocalist born in Newcastle in 2005; Haerin, the visual and vocalist born in Incheon in 2006; and Hyein, the maknae born in 2008 in Seoul. The debut rollout was deliberately unusual. Rather than the standard K-pop pre-debut teaser cycle — group profile reveals, choreography teasers, concept photos staggered across weeks — ADOR dropped the Attention music video on July 22, 2022 with effectively no advance promotional cycle, banking on the song quality and Min Hee-jin's curated visual direction to do the work. It did. The debut EP New Jeans hit number one on the Circle Chart, Cookie and Hype Boy charted alongside Attention in the Korean top ten simultaneously, and within four months the group had passed every other K-pop girl-group debut on Spotify global streaming metrics. The OMG EP shipped in January 2023 with Ditto and OMG; Ditto in particular became the longest-charting Korean song in Circle Chart history, holding the top of the streaming chart for over a year. Get Up followed in July 2023 led by Super Shy and ETA, the group's first English-language radio crossover. Through 2024 the band ran a tighter release cadence — How Sweet in May 2024, Supernatural in June 2024, Right Now alongside Supernatural — and anchored a fan-meet weekend at Tokyo Dome in June 2024 that filled both nights of the 55,000-capacity venue. The summer of 2024 brought public turmoil at ADOR. Min Hee-jin's CEO role at the label was terminated by HYBE in May 2024 amid a dispute over corporate governance and label direction. The five members of NewJeans went public with their support for Min Hee-jin through a series of livestreams and statements that escalated into a formal contract dispute with ADOR through the back half of 2024. The dispute continues into 2025 and 2026 and has shaped the group's activity calendar across the period, with several planned releases and tour announcements held in suspense as the legal and corporate situation works through. The members' relationship with the Bunnies fandom — official fandom name announced in April 2023 — has anchored the group through the dispute, with fan-led trending campaigns and coordinated streaming pushing each new release into the Korean and global top charts even as the corporate situation has remained unresolved.

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