SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, which owns one of the world’s biggest subscriber bases on YouTube, set another record Tuesday by earning 1.2 billion views with its music video “Kill This Love.” Views for the 2019 hit broke the record at 12:38 a.m. on YouTube, becoming the all-female act’s second music video to [...]
GANGNEUNG, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A fan club of Rose, a member of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, donated hospital cages for pets to an animal protection facility where her recently adopted a dog. Last December, she adopted Hank, a 6-month-old dog kept at an abandoned animal protection facility run by the east coast city [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s first livestream concert held over the weekend was the most watched in the United States, the act’s agency said Thursday. Subscribers based in the U.S. accounted for 19.2 percent of all subscribers for the show, followed by those watching from Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Mexico, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — At a time when online concerts featuring live communication with fans and state-of-the-art technology have become a new norm in the K-pop industry, BLACKPINK decided to go back to the basics in its first livestream concert Sunday, urging the audience to focus solely on its music and performance. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Fans looking forward to the solo debuts of BLACKPINK members Rose and Lisa can get a glimpse of Rose’s solo material in the quartet’s online concert this weekend. Rose is set to perform her first solo song during BLACKPINK’s online concert “The Show” scheduled for Sunday, YG Entertainment said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Jennie, the singer-rapper of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has earned over 600 million views on YouTube with her 2018 hit song “Solo,” her agency said Friday. The music video for her first solo single hit the milestone at around 5:19 a.m., some 26 months after its release in November [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK joined hands with the British Embassy in South Korea to ask fans to participate in efforts to fight global warming. “This is a global challenge. Each and every one of us could make a difference, and we need to act now,” said BLACKPINK in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BLACKPINK is set to hold its first-ever online concert in collaboration with YouTube Music later this month, its management agency said Thursday. The concert, titled “YG Palm Stage – 2020 BLACKPINK: The Show,” will take place at 2 p.m. on Dec. 27, according to YG Entertainment. It [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — After becoming the first K-pop girl group to rank No. 2 on the Billboard main album chart, BLACKPINK has set another record by becoming the first all-female act to sell more than 1 million albums, its agency said Monday. “The Album,” the group’s first studio album released earlier this [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop quartet BLACKPINK performed and shared its stories on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” becoming the first K-pop girl group to appear on the U.S. late-night show. The band, which Kimmel introduced as “the most popular all-female group in the vast realm of music known as K-pop” joined the show through [...]