"Navillera" (; : "You and I") is a song recorded by South Korean girl group

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for their first studio album, ''LOL'' (2016). The song was released by

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on July 11, 2016, as the album's lead single. Written and produced by longtime collaborators Iggy and Youngbae, "Navillera" is a

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song that references Cho Chi-hun's poem "The Nun's Dance", with lyrics describing "a girl's desire to fly like a butterfly to be with the person she loves". The song became GFriend's second number-one single in South Korea, topping the

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for two consecutive weeks.

Release and promotion

On July 4, 2016, the tracklist of GFriend's first studio album, ''LOL'', was released, revealing "Navillera" as the lead single. The single was released with the album on July 11, along with a music video. That same day, the group performed the song for the first time at a media showcase at Yes24 Live Hall in

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, followed by a showcase for fans broadcast live via

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. The group then promoted the song on music shows, starting with

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's ''

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'' on July 12. In the second week of promotion, GFriend won all five music show awards, on ''The Show'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. They won a total of 14 music show awards, including triple crowns (three consecutive wins) on ''The Show'', ''M! Countdown,'' and ''Inkigayo''.

Chart performance

The song debuted atop the

, on the chart issue dated July 10–16, 2016, with 278,636 downloads sold and 4,917,825 streams. In its second week, the song stayed atop the chart and fell to number 2 in its third week. The song also debuted at number 4 on the chart for the month of July 2016, with 482,833 downloads sold and 14,741,974 streams. The song made the year-end chart as the 29th best-performing song of 2016, with 1,113,582 downloads sold and 56,753,386 streams.

Accolades

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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