SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS’ V and BLACKPINK’s Jennie, who were rumored to have been dating, recently broke up, music industry sources said Wednesday. The two K-pop stars have been caught up in rumors that they are in a romantic relationship after an online post claimed they spent time together on South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has extended its contract for group activities with YG Entertainment, the company said Wednesday. “The board has completed a resolution about renewing the contracts with BLACKPINK’s four members,” YG said. Rose, Lisa, Jisoo and Jennie debuted as BLACKPINK in 2016. Their seven-year contracts with YG [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “Kill This Love” has surpassed 1.9 billion views on YouTube. The video hit the milestone at 6:13 a.m. Monday, about four years and eight months after the song was released in April 2019, YG Entertainment said. BLACKPINK is now the only [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s Jennie soared to the top of the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. songs chart with her special single, “You & Me.” Billboard unveiled this Monday (U.S. local time) in a preview of the upcoming chart, released on its homepage and social media. This marks Jennie’s first [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The dance performance video for “How You Like That,” a 2020 hit single by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has surpassed 1.5 billion views on YouTube, the group’s agency said Wednesday. The choreography video hit the milestone Tuesday night, about three years and two months after it was uploaded on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The performance video of BLACKPINK member Lisa’s solo song “Money” has exceeded 900 million views on YouTube, her management agency YG Entertainment said Tuesday. “Money” is a track on Lisa’s first single album, “LALISA,” released in September 2021. The hip-hop song made an entry on Billboard’s Hot 100 and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Intellectual Property Office’s Special Police Unit for Trademarks (known as The SJP) has announced that it will take action against fake goods at Blackpink’s final world tour concert at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul’s Guro-gu on the weekend of September 16-17. This special unit was established [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will drop a song for the soundtrack of its new mobile video game on Friday, the group’s agency said. “The Girls” is on the original soundtrack for the mobile game, “BLACKPINK The Game,” released in May. Members Rose and Jennie participated in composing and writing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The dance practice video for “Pink Venom,” a 2022 hit single by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has surpassed 200 million views on YouTube, the group’s agency said Friday. The video hit the milestone on Thursday night, becoming the group’s 11th choreography video with more than 200 million views, YG [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Gocheok Sky Dome will be the venue of two surprise Seoul concerts by BLACKPINK next month, which makes it the first K-pop girl group ever to perform there, the group’s agency said Thursday. Earlier this month, YG Entertainment said the group will hold two “encore concerts” in the South [...]