SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s debut song “Boombayah” has surpassed 1.5 billion views on YouTube, the group’s agency said Saturday. YG Entertainment said the video passed the milestone at about 3:50 a.m. the same day, six years after the K-pop quartet launched its debut EP album, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Stray Kids have stayed high on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart for the second consecutive week with their new EP “Maxident.” The eight-track album ranked 11th on the latest Billboard 200 chart updated Tuesday (U.S. time), a week after debuting at No. 1. “Case 143,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BLACKPINK will headline British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park in London next year, the group’s agency and the festival announced Saturday. The four-member act will play the major British music festival on July 2, 2023, becoming the first Korean artists to perform in the event, YG Entertainment [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The exclusive performance video of BLACKPINK member Lisa’s individual song “Money” has exceeded 700 million views on YouTube, her management agency said Friday. The video surpassed the tally at 6:05 p.m. the previous day, according to YG Entertainment. “Money” is a track on Lisa’s first single album, “LALISA,” released [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK has earned four nominations at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, while boy groups BTS and Seventeen have gotten three nods each. According to a list of nominees announced by MTV EMA on Wednesday (U.S. time), BLACKPINK was nominated for Best Video for “Pink [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK rewrote the history of K-pop girl groups by becoming the first among them to claim No. 1 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart with its second studio album, “Born Pink,” on Monday. This proved that the band has become beloved artists of global music fans, six years [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK became the first K-pop girl group to claim the No. 1 spot on U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart, Billboard has said. In a preview of this week’s charts, Billboard said Sunday (U.S. time) that the band’s second full-length album, “Born Pink,” released Sept. 16, arrived atop the latest [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK has topped the album section of Britain’s Official Chart with its latest work, “Born Pink,” becoming the first K-pop girl group to claim the belt on the most celebrated music chart in the country, its agency said Saturday. The group’s second full-length album, released on Sept. 16, beat [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — “Born Pink,” the second studio album from BLACKPINK, has broken the record for the biggest first week sales by a K-pop girl group in history, its agency said Friday. The album set the record by selling more than 1.54 million copies in the first week of its release last [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “Born Pink,” BLACKPINK’s second full-length album, has sold more than 2 million copies for the first time as a K-pop girl group album, the group’s agency said Thursday. The album had sold a total of 2,141,281 copies in only two days after its release last Friday, YG Entertainment said, [...]