''Smiley'' (stylised as ''^x‿^x (SMiLEY)'') is the debut extended play (EP) by South Korean singer

Choi Ye-na Choi Ye-na (, born September 29, 1999), known mononymous person, mononymously as Yena, is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a soloist and actress under Yuehua Entertainment, and a former member of South Korean–Japanese girl group Iz*O ...

. It was released on January 17, 2022, by

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Background

From June 15 to August 31, 2018, Choi (together with

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members

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and Wang Yiren) represented

on reality girl group survival show ''

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''. She eventually placed fourth and debuted with

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. The group's debut

extended play An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 1 ...

(EP) ''

Color*Iz ''Color*Iz'' (stylized in all caps; pronounced "colorize") is the debut extended play (EP) by South Korean–Japanese girl group Iz*One, a project group formed through the 2018 Mnet reality competition show ''Produce 48''. The album was released o ...

'' was released on October 29, 2018, with "

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" serving as its lead single. On April 29, 2021, Iz*One officially disbanded after the end of their contract. On January 2, 2022, Yena announced the release date and schedule for her debut EP ''Smiley''. A representative from her agency,

shared:

Track listing

Accolades

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Release history

References

{{reflist Korean-language EPs 2020s Korean-language albums 2022 debut EPs Choi Ye-na EPs