DNA (Little Mix album)

***DNA*** is the debut studio album by English girl group Little Mix. It was released on 19 November 2012 in the United Kingdom via Syco Music. Musically, _DNA_ is a pop, dance-pop and R&B album, with elements of pop rock, hip hop and funk. Some of the songs on the album were also co-written by members of other girl groups, including Nicola Roberts of Girls Aloud, Shaznay Lewis of All Saints and T-Boz of TLC.

## Critical reception

Upon its release, _DNA_ received positive reviews from music critics.

## Track listing

**Notes**
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## Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic.

- Philippe Marc Anquetil – mixing, vocal engineer, vocal producer
- Dan Aslet – vocal engineer
- Daniel Aslet – vocal engineer
- Iyiola Babalola –  drums
- Fred Ball –  keyboards, percussion, producer
- Thomas Barnes –  drums
- Simon Clarke – arranger, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
- Ben Collier – vocal engineer
- Miranda Cooper –  programming
- Tom Coyne – mastering
- DAPO – mixing
- Ester Dean –  producer, vocal producer
- Perrie Edwards – vocals
- Ben Epstein – bass, guitars, producer
- Brett Farkas – guitars
- Luke Fitton –  guitars, programming
- Future Cut – engineer, producer
- Paul Gendler – guitars
- Serban Ghenea – mixing
- Matt Gray – programming
- Michael Hamilton – bass
- John Hanes – engineer
- Wayne Hector – composer
- Brian Higgins –  producer, programming
- Ash Howes –  producer
- Iain James –  vocal arrangement, vocal producer, background vocals
- Josh Jenkin – programming
- Peter Kelleher –  keyboards, synthesizer
- The Kick Horns – brass
- Ben Kohn –  guitar, keyboards
- Tyson Kuteyi – engineer
- Chris Laws – drums, mixing
- Jon Levine –  engineer, piano, producer
- Darren Lewis –  guitars, instrumentation, keyboards
- Dave Liddell – trombone
- Steve Mac –  keyboards, piano arrangement, producer, string arrangements, synthesizer
- MNEK – programming
- Rocky Morris –  drums, keyboards, programming
- Jesy Nelson – vocals
- Pegasus – producer
- Leigh-Anne Pinnock – vocals
- Tim Powell –  producer
- Dann Pursey – engineer
- Ryan Quigley – trumpet
- Jacob Quistgaard – guitars
- Carmen Reece – vocal arrangement, background vocals
- James F. Reynolds – mixing, vocal producer
- Daniel Rivera – assistant engineer
- Andy Robinson – programming
- Tim Sanders – arranger, tenor saxophone
- Rufio Sandilands –  drums, keyboards, programming
- Toby Scott – engineer, programming
- Phil Seaford – assistant engineer
- Slick Rick – featured artist
- Richard "Biff" Stannard –  producer
- Shea Stedford – assistant engineer
- T-boz –  Featured Artist
- Phil Tan – mixing
- Ben Taylor – engineer, programming
- Jade Thirlwall – vocals
- TMS – arranger, producer
- Dapo Torimiro –  engineer, instrumentation, producer
- Jeremy Wheatley – mixing
- Darren Wiles – trumpet
- Xenomania – producer

### Weekly charts

|Chart (2012–13)|Peak position|
| --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|20|

### Year-end charts

|Chart (2012)|Position|
| --- | --- |
|39||
|93||

## Release history

|scope="col"|Region|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Format(s)|scope="col"|Label(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Ireland|16 November 2012|rowspan="25"||rowspan="2"|Syco Music|||
|United Kingdom|19 November 2012|||||||
|Australia|rowspan="2"|23 November 2012|rowspan="2"|Sony Music Australia||||
|New Zealand||||||||
|Austria|rowspan="4"|19 April 2013|rowspan="12"|Syco Music||||
|Belgium||||||||
|Germany||||||||
|Netherlands||||||||
|Bulgaria|rowspan="9"|22 April 2013||||||
|Czech Republic||||||||
|France||||||||
|Greece||||||||
|Hong Kong||||||||
|India||||||||
|Indonesia||||||||
|Malaysia||||||||
|Spain|rowspan="1"|Sony Music Spain||||||
|Mexico|rowspan="3"|23 April 2013|rowspan="2"|Syco Music||||
|Italy||||||||
|Poland|Sony Music Polska|||||||
|Philippines|27 April 2013|Sony Music Philippines||||||
|Taiwan|14 May 2013|Sony Music Taiwan||||||
|Canada|rowspan="2"|28 May 2013|rowspan="2"|Columbia Records||||
|United States||||||||
|Japan|21 August 2013|Sony Music Japan||||||

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: DNA
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: Little Mix
- **border**: yes
- **recorded**: December 2011 – September 2012
- **length**: 43:50
- **label**: *Syco Music, Syco
*Columbia Records, Columbia
- **chronology**: Little Mix
- **next title**: Salute (Little Mix album), Salute
- **next year**: 2013