"Navillera" (Korean: 너 그리고 나; RR: Neo Geurigo Na; lit.: "You and I") is a song recorded by South Korean girl group GFriend for their first studio album, LOL (2016). The song was released by Source Music on July 11, 2016, as the album's lead single. Written and produced by longtime collaborators Iggy and Youngbae, "Navillera" is a pop rock 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".[1][2]
The song became GFriend's second number-one single in South Korea, topping the Gaon Digital Chart for two consecutive weeks.
On July 4, 2016, the tracklist of GFriend's first studio album, LOL, was released, revealing "Navillera" as the lead single.[3] 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 Gwangjin-gu, followed by a showcase for fans broadcast live via Naver's V app.[4][5][6] The group then promoted the song on music shows, starting with SBS MTV's The Show on July 12.[7] In the second week of promotion, GFriend won all five music show awards, on The Show, Show Champion, M Countdown, Music Bank, and Inkigayo.[8][9] They won a total of 14 music show awards, including triple crowns (three consecutive wins) on The Show, M! Countdown, and Inkigayo.[10]
The song debuted atop the Gaon Digital Chart, on the chart issue dated July 10–16, 2016, with 278,636 downloads sold and 4,917,825 streams.[11][12][13] In its second week, the song stayed atop the chart and fell to number 2 in its third week.[14][15] 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.[16][17][18] 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.[19][20][21]
^Lee Seung-rok (July 24, 2016). "여자친구, '인기가요'도 1위…5관왕 음방 올킬 해냈다 (종합)" [GFriend wins number one on 'Inkigayo'... completes all five music show all kill]. My Daily (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 19, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
