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,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop sensation BLACKPINK will headline British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park in London next year, the group’s agency and the festival announced Saturday. The four-member act will play the major British music festival on July 2, 2023, becoming the first Korean artists to perform in the event, YG Entertainment [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The exclusive performance video of BLACKPINK member Lisa’s individual song “Money” has exceeded 700 million views on YouTube, her management agency said Friday. The video surpassed the tally at 6:05 p.m. the previous day, according to YG Entertainment. “Money” is a track on Lisa’s first single album, “LALISA,” released [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK has earned four nominations at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, while boy groups BTS and Seventeen have gotten three nods each. According to a list of nominees announced by MTV EMA on Wednesday (U.S. time), BLACKPINK was nominated for Best Video for “Pink [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK rewrote the history of K-pop girl groups by becoming the first among them to claim No. 1 on the Billboard 200 main albums chart with its second studio album, “Born Pink,” on Monday. This proved that the band has become beloved artists of global music fans, six years [...]