SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop queen BLACKPINK will be the next act to go on Hybe’s growing fan community platform Weverse, its agency said Wednesday. The four-piece act, which already has a massive fan base on YouTube, will join the virtual platform starting Aug. 2, according to YG Entertainment. The move follows a [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will release a special movie for global fans this summer to mark its fifth debut anniversary, its management agency said Wednesday. “BLACKPINK the Movie” will hit theaters in around 100 countries, YG Entertainment said, without elaborating on the exact release dates in different regions. In [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for all-female act BLACKPINK’s song “Ddu-du Ddu-du” has broken 1.6 billion views on YouTube. The 2018 hit broke the milestone at 7:22 a.m. Friday, setting a new record for a K-pop act, its management agency YG Entertainment said. The record came roughly 19 months after it [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, which has one of the world’s biggest subscriber bases on YouTube, set another record Saturday by racking up 1.3 billion views with its music video “Kill This Love.” Views for the 2019 hit broke the record at 1:40 p.m. on YouTube, becoming the all-female act’s second music video [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “As If It’s Your Last” has become its fourth music video to top 1 billion views on YouTube. According to YG Entertainment, BLACKPINK’s music video “As If It’s Your Last” broke 1 billion views at 6:52 p.m. Friday on YouTube, three years and [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Rose, a member of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has sold more than 500,000 units of her first solo album “R,” becoming the first South Korean female soloist to breach the half-million sales mark in about 19 years, her management agency said Thursday. As of Tuesday, “R” had sold a [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK now has more than 60 million subscribers around the world following its YouTube channel, the biggest account based in South Korea and the second largest among global artists, the band’s agency said Tuesday. The number of subscribers for the four-piece act’s YouTube channel passed the [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Rose, the main vocalist of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has set two Guinness World Records (GWR) titles with her recent debut solo release. The singer, who debuted as a member of the four-piece group in 2016, released her first solo EP “R,” featuring songs “On the Ground” and “Gone,” [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s Rose saw her debut solo release reach No. 70 on Billboard’s main singles chart in the highest ranking for a K-pop female soloist. “On the Ground,” the title track of her double-track solo release “R,” hit No. 70 on the latest version of the Billboard’s Hot 100 updated [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s Rose saw her debut solo release hit No. 43 on the Official Charts, becoming the first K-pop female soloist to chart on the British music ranking. “On the Ground,” the BLACKPINK member’s new release, reached No. 43 on the latest version of the Official Singles Top 100 updated [...]