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Nine Muses. It was released on March 8, 2012 with the song "Ticket" as the promotional song.

Background

Rumors of the comeback of the group started on February 21, 2012, speculating that the group was going to come back with a new digital single. On March 2, a teaser photo of the member Euaerin was revealed. In the photo, Euaerin seems to be unclothed underneath the giant ticket that covers her up, stamped with the words "Ticket", the name of the group "Nine Muses" and a date "20120308", which could be a possibility to be the concept and day of release, on March 8. On March 5, it was confirmed the new release is their debut mini-album by revealing the physical EP cover. On the same day, it was revealed the track list of the EP, which features two already released digital singles "Figaro", released on August 11, 2011, and "News", released on January 11, 2012, two new songs "Ticket", "Who R U" and their instrumentals. On March 6, more photos of the concept were revealed.

Composition

All songs from the EP were written by Song Soo Yun and composed by Han Jae-Ho and Kim Seung-Soo (also known as

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Music video

A teaser of the music video for "Ticket" was released on March 6, 2012. The full music video was released on March 8, 2012, along with the EP release. A special "V Line" dance version was released on

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, on March 22.

Promotions

Promotions of the song "Ticket" started on March 8, on

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''. The promotions ended one month later, on April 8, on SBS's ''Inkigayo''.

Track listing

Charts

Album chart

Single chart

Sales

Release history

References

External links

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