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Release Date
17 October 2022
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Length
6 tracks
"I Love" is the fifth Korean extended play released (EP) by (G)I-DLE (Korean: (여자)아이들), The EP contains six tracks, including the lead single "Nxde". It was released on October 17, 2022.
The album talks about love and contains various kinds of love, and has many different emotions. The tracks in the EP are listed in reverse as it narrates the process of love starting with track 6 of someone experiencing love to track 1 of loving themselves. The EP took the form of vintage Hollywood-inspired concept.
The group retains its reputation as a "self-made" idol group by having three members participate in the lyrics and composition of all six tracks. Leader (Jeon Soyeon) composed and arranged the title track "Nxde" and wrote every song on the project. Meanwhile, Minnie and Yuqi composed the rest of the four tracks on I Love.
The album's title, I Love has no object to the sentence of the album name. The group explained that they want to respect all types of love and leave it to each listener to substitute with their own form of love – "can be family, friend, hobby, lover, dream, or one of the many kinds of love out there". I Love also has meanings of embodies the audacious aspiration that "'I' deserve to stay to 'myself' instead of being what others want me to be and that I hope to throw away the show which I don't want, and instead present the genuine, true self."
On October 11, the EP surpassed 700,000 copies in pre-orders, setting a new record as Cube Entertainment's most pre-ordered and potentially bestselling album of all time, as the agency never sold more than 500,000 copies before. This EP is predicted to exceed Cube's total consolidated sales for the first half of 2022.
According to Hanteo Chart on October 21, "I Love" surpassed 610,000 copies sold, on the fifth day of its release. On the day of it release, the album surpassed 227,416 copies sold on Circle Retail Album Chart. On Circle album charts it debuted at number one with 637,090 copies. A 284% increase in the growth rate compared to the group's previous album I Never Die.
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