We are

The record

We are is i-dle’s eighth mini album, released on 19 May 2025. The album introduction presents it as the first record after all five members renewed their contracts, and says it turns the ‘I’ of the ‘I’ series that began with the debut album I am into ‘We’, to tell the story of the “us” who have come this far together. According to the same text, it is the first record since the group’s debut on which every member took part in both writing and composing. It carries six songs, and the title track is ‘Good Thing’.

Reviews

Billboard included the record among the 25 K-pop albums it picked from 2025, published on 18 December 2025. Amina Ayoud, who wrote the entry, noted that the group dropped the “G” from its name in May as it stepped into a new era, and called We are “another step towards change, an impressive entry in the girl group’s lengthy discography”. She described the title track ‘Good Thing’ as a song that “leans into the early 2010s K-pop sound with an upbeat electronic sound composed and arranged by the group’s lead rapper Soyeon”.

Among the tracks

The same entry picked out ‘Love Tease’ as “a catchy synth-pop track that is reminiscent of retro sounds”, and the closing song ‘그래도 돼요’, which it lists under its English title ‘If You Want’, as “a soulful ballad meets R&B track that shows off the group’s vocals”.

The album introduction names the member behind each song. ‘Love Tease’ is Yuqi’s own composition and a disco song, a genre the group had not tried before; ‘Chain’ is built on Minnie’s topline. ‘Unstoppable’, Miyeon’s own composition and the first of hers on a group record, is an R&B pop track, and ‘그래도 돼요’ is a ballad with Shuhua’s first lyric credit in eight years since debut.

Numbers

In its release week, week 21 of 2025 (18 to 24 May), the record reached number two on the Circle Chart weekly album chart, and it entered Billboard’s World Albums chart at number ten on the chart dated 7 June. The title track reached number 76 on the Circle Chart weekly digital chart in the same week 21. The next mini album, We made, followed in July 2026; its course is set out in the chart run of i-dle’s ninth mini album We made.