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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK called its latest project — appearing in the first K-pop documentary produced by Netflix — something that gave “much-needed time” for the quartet that has emerged as one of the most successful acts in the K-pop industry. Netflix is set to release “BLACKPINK: Light [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop megastar BLACKPINK’s first full-length album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard main album chart this week, setting a new record in the history of South Korean girl groups. “At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, BLACKPINK’s debut full-length ‘The Album’ enters with 110,000 equivalent album units earned,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s latest music video “Lovesick Girls” will be edited and replaced, its agency said Wednesday, following a controversy over scenes that nurse groups criticized for sexualizing the profession. “We have decided to delete all scenes with the nurse uniform in BLACKPINK’s ‘Lovesick Girls’ music video and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BLACKPINK said Friday it wanted to show its growth as an artist and send out a message of hope and positive energy with its first-ever full-length album. Earlier in the day, the quartet unveiled the album “The Album,” which includes main track “Lovesick Girls” as well as [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK became the second most-subscribed musician on YouTube on Tuesday, its management agency said. The official YouTube channel of BLACKPINK saw the number of its subscribers surpass 48.8 million, pushing down the American DJ Marshmello to No. 3, according to YG Entertainment. Justin Bieber topped [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix plans to next month release a documentary chronicling BLACKPINK’s four-year journey from talented trainees to K-pop superstars. The streaming giant and YG Entertainment, the band’s agency, said Wednesday “BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky,” the first Netflix film about a South Korean music band, will premiere Oct. 14. It [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video of South Korean girl group BLACKPINK’s hit song “How You Like That” exceeded 500 million YouTube views in the shortest time in K-pop history, the band’s agency said Tuesday. The music video surpassed the 500 million mark around 3:50 a.m. Tuesday, 73 days after its release [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK is poised to potentially make the biggest South Korean girl group album debut next month, with retail pre-orders for its inaugural studio record reaching 800,000 units worldwide, according to the band’s agency Friday. The number of pre-orders for the record titled “The Album” reached over 530,000 copies in [...]