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

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts
 Chart (2012–13) Peakpositionscope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"Japanese Albums (Oricon) 20scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"scope="row"

Year-end charts
 Chart (2012) Position UK Albums (OCC) 39 Chart (2013) Position UK Albums (OCC) 93

Certifications

Release history

 Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ireland 16 November 2012 Syco Music United Kingdom 19 November 2012 Australia 23 November 2012Sony Music Australia New Zealand  Austria  19 April 2013 Syco Music Belgium  Germany  Netherlands  Bulgaria  22 April 2013 Czech Republic  France  Greece  Hong Kong  India  Indonesia  Malaysia Spain  Sony Music Spain Mexico 23 April 2013  Syco Music Italy  Poland Sony Music Polska Philippines 27 April 2013 Sony Music Philippines Taiwan 14 May 2013  Sony Music Taiwan Canada28 May 2013 Columbia Records United States Japan 21 August 2013 Sony Music Japan

References

Category:2012 albums
Category:Debut albums
Category:Pop albums
Category:Dance-pop albums
Category:R&B albums