Why did (G)I-DLE change its name to i-dle?

Cube Entertainment announced the rebrand on May 2, 2025, the group's seventh anniversary, after all five members had renewed their contracts. The lineup stayed the same; even before, the bracketed "G" was not spoken aloud.

Who writes i-dle's songs?

I-dle is known as a "self-producing" group that writes and produces much of its own material. Leader Soyeon also came up with the group's name while composing her solo track "Idle Song".

What happened to the sixth member, Soojin?

Soojin went on hiatus in March 2021 after bullying allegations from former classmates. Cube announced her departure on August 14, 2021, and the group has continued as five.

Who is the leader of i-dle?

Soyeon leads the group. She represented Cube on Produce 101 before debut, finishing 20th, and named the group after her solo track "Idle Song".

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NEVERLAND

AgencyCube EntertainmentDebutMay 2018GenreK-pop, Dance-pop, Hip-hop

A self-producing five-piece that writes its own hits and dropped the 'G' to outgrow the label.

Self-produced
Bold
Concept-shifting
Attitude-first
Versatile

LINEUP

Members

Miyeon

Main vocalist

Minnie

Main vocalist

Soyeon

Leader

Yuqi

Main dancer

Shuhua

Sub-vocalist

i-dle members: positions, birthdays and ages
Member	Position	Birthday	Age	Height	Born in
Miyeon	Main vocalist · Visual	Jan 31, 1997	29	162 cm	South Korea
Minnie	Main vocalist	Oct 23, 1997	29	168 cm	Thailand
Soyeon	Leader · Main rapper	Aug 26, 1998	28	162 cm	South Korea
Yuqi	Main dancer · Sub-vocalist	Sep 23, 1999	27	168 cm	China
Shuhua	Visual · Sub-vocalist	Jan 6, 2000	26	161 cm	Taiwan

MILESTONES

Records & firsts

First K-pop girl group with perfect all-kills on four consecutive comebacks

Completed with "Fate", 2024.

Only act with two perfect all-kills in 2022

"Tomboy" and "Nxde".

I Feel sold two million copies worldwide

IFPI's 14th best-selling album of 2023.

Billboard's best K-pop song of 2022

"Tomboy", number one on the 25 Best K-Pop Songs of 2022.

First act from an independent label on US Pop Airplay with a non-English song

"Nxde", number 40, 2022.

DID YOU KNOW

Trivia & lore

Soyeon came up with the name "Idle" while composing her second digital single, "Idle Song", and pitched it to Cube.
Soojin went on hiatus in March 2021 and left that August; the group has promoted as five since.
On May 2, 2025 they officially became I-dle and released We Are I-dle, nine past singles re-recorded by the five members.
Yuqi took the songwriting credit on the Chinese version of "Hwaa" in 2021.
"Fate" topped Korean charts in 2024 on TikTok momentum alone — it was never promoted as a single at home.

DISCOGRAPHY

Signature tracks

Queencard — I Feel

2023 · Queencard & 2

Tomboy — I Never Die

2022 · Tomboy breakthrough

Latata — I Am

2018 · Latata debut

Klaxon — I Sway

2024 · Queencard & 2

Nxde — I Love

2022 · Tomboy breakthrough

TIMELINE

The journey

ORIGIN

Cube's self-made bet

2017 — 2018

Cube built the group around Soyeon, a Produce 101 contestant who named it after her own "Idle Song". The pitch was a self-producing idol group that writes much of its own material — a rarity for a label-assembled girl group.

Lineup: Debuted as six members in May 2018

DEBUT

Latata debut

2018 — 2021

Latata announced the group with a Soyeon-penned hit, and a run of singles like Hann and Senorita proved the self-producing model could chart. The early years built (G)I-DLE as a concept-shifting act that refused a single fixed image.

Anchor track: Latata

BREAKTHROUGH

Tomboy breakthrough

2022 — 2022

"Tomboy", the lead of the first studio album I Never Die and their first release as five, became their first number-one and a perfect all-kill. "Nxde" scored a second PAK the same year, making them the only act with two in 2022.

Anchor track: Tomboy

Lineup: Soojin left the group in August 2021 over bullying allegations, settling the lineup at five

GLOBAL

Queencard & 2

2023 — 2024

"Queencard" was a third straight number one, and I Feel sold two million copies worldwide. In 2024 the album 2 and the EP I Sway both passed a million in Korea, and "Fate" earned a PAK through TikTok without being a single — four PAK comebacks in a row.

Anchor track: Queencard

REBRAND

I-dle rebrand

2025

On their seventh anniversary, May 2, 2025, the group officially became I-dle and re-recorded nine old singles as five on We Are I-dle. The EP We Are sold a million, a Japanese EP followed, and 2026 brought the Syncopation World Tour and the EP We Made.

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