The EP contains five songs, including the lead single “Senorita”, written and composed by member Soyeon and Big Sancho. (G)I-dle released their second EP, I Made, on February 26, 2019. Throughout the rest of 2018, (G)I-dle earned several rookie awards at major Korean year-end music award shows, including the Asia Artist Awards, Gaon Chart Music Awards, Genie Music Awards, Golden Disc Awards, Korea Popular Music Awards and Melon Music Awards.īillboard ranked them topped on the list as the best new K-pop groups of 2018.Ģ019: I Made, “Uh-Oh”, Japanese debut and Queendom They received their first music show win on Show Champion on August 29 for “Hann”. “Hann” topped domestic music charts including Bugs, Genie and Olleh Music on August 16 and hits a new peak on Billboard’s World Digital Song Sales chart where they debut at No. Within 24 hours, the video surpassed 4.9 millions views on YouTube. The music video was released alongside the single on August 14. On August 14, (G)I-dle’s first digital single comeback, “Hann (Alone)”, was released. On August 6, (G)I-dle performed a small concert and record a flash-mob performance of their hit single “Latata” in Times Square and Washington Square Park. They received their first award, Female Rookie Idol of the Year, at the Brand of the Year Korea 2018 awards. High-ranking phrases in (G)I-dle’s keyword analysis included “LATATA” (the group’s debut title track), “The Show,” and “debut,” while their highest-ranking related terms included “hot,” “pretty,” and “exciting.” The group’s positivity-negativity analysis revealed a score of 63.55 percent positive reactions. In their first-ever appearance on the list, the group shot to first place with a brand reputation index of 10,038,719. The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, interaction, and community indexes of various girl groups using big data collected from May 7 to June 8. On June 8, they made a debut in the rankings by topping the list for June. After a month after debut, they made their debut on Billboard‘s Social 50 Chart by charting at number 36 on June 5. Two days later, on May 24, the group received their second music show win for “Latata” on Mnet’s M Countdown and followed by their third win on The Show. (G)I-dle received their first-ever music show win on SBS MTV’s The Show on May 22, twenty days after their debut. “Latata” debuted at number thirty-five on the Gaon Digital Chart on May 17, 2018. “I Am” also debuted at number seven and has since peaked at number five on Billboard’s World Albums chart on May 9, 2018.
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The mini-album debuted at number 13 on the Gaon Album Chart issued on May 10, 2018. (G)I-dle achieved combined views of 2.2 million for the “Latata” music video within two days of its release. They made their official debut stage on the music program Mnet’s M Countdown on the next day. Their debut showcase was held at the Blue Square iMarket Hall on the same day as the album’s release. (G)I-dle officially released their debut mini-album “I Am” on May 2 with the lead single “Latata”. Photos of Soojin and Shuhua were released on April 10, and followed by Minnie and Soyeon on April 12. Cube Entertainment began revealing the members of (G)I-dle with the release of individual photos of Miyeon and Yuqi on April 8. On April 5, they unveiled the name of their upcoming girl group to be “(G)I-dle”.
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On March 22, 2018, Cube Entertainment announced that Soyeon would debut with an upcoming girl group in the first half of 2018. Yuqi also appeared in a short video for Dingo Music. From April 2018, Miyeon and Minnie made four cover videos uploaded under the Dingo Music YouTube channel.
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Minnie was featured in Line Friends’ album Dance Party, which was released in November 2017. Shuhua made an appearance with labelmate Yu Seon-ho in 10cm’s “Pet” music video in September 2017. Minnie, Yuqi and Shuhua appeared in a promotional video for Rising Star Cosmetic in June 2017. She trained as a member of girl group VIVIDIVA, but left before the group’s official debut. Soojin was a former trainee under DN Entertainment in 2015. Miyeon had previously trained under YG Entertainment between 20. She later debuted as a soloist, releasing two digital singles: “Jelly” and “Idle Song”. Soyeon also competed in the third season of the rap competition show Unpretty Rapstar, where she finished as the second runner-up. However, she was ranked at 20th place in the final episode and failed to become a member of the winning girl group, I.O.I. She remained as a popular contestant throughout the show’s run, peaking at 10th place on the fifth episode. Soyeon was previously introduced as one of the female trainees to represent Cube Entertainment on the Mnet survival show, Produce 101.