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Which NewJeans member works with which luxury brand? The K-pop girl group just toppled BTS – now Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin and Hyein are all endorsement queens signed to competing fashion houses
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![Despite only debuting in July 2022, NewJeans have been clocking luxury endorsements at pace. Here they are spotted early on at a Chanel event in August 2022. Photo: @newjeans_official/Instagram](https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/768x768/public/d8/images/canvas/2023/05/22/23a1cbb7-2603-40a6-be61-224d74f29824_2902649e.jpg?itok=oQT0XgPJ&v=1684726356)
- ‘Attention’, please: NewJeans just beat BTS as the fastest K-pop act to reach 1 billion Spotify streams, in 219 days and with just 7 songs – but that includes smashes OMG, Ditto and Hybe Boy
- Did someone say ‘new Blackpink’, again? Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin and Hyein have already all been tapped as global ambassadors for major European luxury brands – so who got which luxury label?
In case you’ve been living under a soundproofed rock, there’s a new group of Korean darlings in town – NewJeans just broke the Guinness World Record as the fastest K-pop act to reach 1 billion Spotify stream. They pulled it off in 219 days – since their debut “Attention” last July – unseating BTS, the world-beating band who seemed to topple all conventional belief systems when they achieved that same feat in just 409 days.
And that means just one thing – a wave of interest from European fashion houses eager to capitalise on the trend.
![NewJeans hit 1 million Spotify streams … Just. Like. That. Photo: @newjeans_official/Instagram NewJeans hit 1 million Spotify streams … Just. Like. That. Photo: @newjeans_official/Instagram](https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2023/05/22/20d1e54e-d0b2-4dda-8c6f-3fcc9908d698_d7491f3d.jpg)
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With just seven songs in their discography, they have gone viral multiple times on TikTok, where the hashtag #NewJeans has racked up over 13.4 billion views.
Some of their songs – “OMG” “Hype Boy” and “Ditto” – have been used in over a million TikTok videos combined.
Despite being less than one year old, the group has also been clinching brand deals left, right, and centre – each member is currently a brand ambassador of at least one luxury label.
![NewJeans promote its OMG release. Photo: @newjeans_official/Instagram NewJeans promote its OMG release. Photo: @newjeans_official/Instagram](https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2023/05/22/50595ecd-4739-4352-b415-f89079a461f1_6ceba12a.jpg)
NewJeans is under a South Korean record label Ador, which was launched as an independent label by Hybe, the company that houses the K-pop superhit BTS.
All five members of the group are younger than 20, the oldest being 19 and the youngest just 15.
So to celebrate their latest record-breaking win, let’s see which NewJeans member works with which brand.