NewJeans, one of many world’s hottest recording acts in 2023, open their account for 2024 with the double drop of “How Candy” and “Bubble Gum”.
Arriving on the stroke of midnight, the 2 new cuts are housed on the four-track How Candy EP, which incorporates instrumental variations of each songs.
The Okay-pop woman group – comprising Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin and Hyein – has exploded since their debut in July 2022. Six of its eight launched singles have reached No. 1 or No. 2 on South Korea’s dominant streaming measure, the Circle Digital Chart. The act has impacted on a number of Billboard charts as effectively, together with three high 10 hits on the World 200 and 4 on the World Excl. U.S. chart, 5 entries on the Billboard Scorching 100 and 6 high 10s on World Digital Track Gross sales. The very best-reaching single was “Tremendous Shy,” which peaked at No. 2 on World Digital Track Gross sales final July, and featured (together with “OMG”) in a vigorous medley the quintet carried out for the 2023 Billboard Music Awards.
Not too long ago, the five-some collected artist of the 12 months and music of the 12 months at each the Melon Music Awards and MAMA Awards; the act got here in at No. 8 on the IFPI’s checklist of biggest-selling world recording artists of the 2023 (forward of Dangerous Bunny and Lana Del Rey, respectively); and so they’re the reigning Billboard Girls in Music Group of the 12 months.
Alongside the way in which, writes Paul Thompson for Billboard’s NewJeans cowl story, revealed in February, the group “has smashed expectations in Okay-pop, serving to lead a brand new period of feminine affect in a style lengthy dominated by male teams. Whereas it was as soon as accepted business knowledge that solely boy bands may construct a core fandom and widespread industrial success (promoting each albums and live performance tickets), NewJeans is a part of a girl-group era that has finished each, shifting the paradigm of what achievement entails for younger feminine teams.”
“How Candy,” a cultured, electro-pop quantity, and “Bubble Gum,” a production-perfect R&B dream, could be streamed in full beneath.
