SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s 2016 single “Playing with Fire” has surpassed 800 million views on YouTube. The video crossed the milestone Monday at about 1:40 a.m., six years and two months after it was uploaded on the global video sharing service, YG Entertainment, the band’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has been nominated for this year’s BRIT Awards in the International Group of the Year category, its agency, YG Entertainment, said Friday. BLACKPINK was chosen along with four other groups — Drake & 21 Savage, First Aid Kit, Fontaines D.C. and Gabriels — for the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has racked up four nominations for the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards, one of the American music industry’s awards shows, and boy group BTS has landed two. According to the full list of nominees for this year’s event announced on the homepage of the annual music [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will headline the Coachella music festival, a major U.S. music and art festival scheduled for April, its organizer said. In an official announcement released Tuesday (U.S. time), Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival unveiled its star-studded lineup for the annual event to be held at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK’s megahit single “Ddu-du Ddu-du” has set a YouTube record for most views for a video by a K-pop group, the quartet’s agency said Wednesday. YG Entertainment said the music video surpassed 2 billion views shortly before 9 a.m. The clip was first released on July 15, 2018. “Ddu-du [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Jisoo will become the last member of the top K-pop girl group BLACKPINK to debut as a soloist this year, the group’s agency said Monday. “BLACKPINK’s Jisoo is now stepping up work to record her solo album,” YG Entertainment said in a release. “She has been working on music [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The choreography video for “How You Like That,” a 2020 hit single by K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has surpassed 1.3 billion views on YouTube. The group’s agency, YG Entertainment, said Friday the video hit the milestone at about 7:30 a.m., becoming the quartet’s fourth video with more than 1.3 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — “Born Pink,” the second full-length album by South Korean girl group BLACKPINK, has been picked among the best albums of 2022 by Billboard. “Born Pink” was the only K-pop album included in “The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Staff List” announced by the U.S. music magazine on Tuesday (U.S. [...]
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,” [...]