“History Made Once Again” BLACKPINK Becomes First K-Girl Group to Top ‘Billboard 200’… “Honorable Moment Thanks to Fans”
[스포츠조선닷컴=정안지 기자] With BLACKPINK taking the top place on the ‘Billboard 200’ chart as the first female group since 2008 all over the world, the group expressed their gratitude to global music fans.
Through their agency YG Entertainment on the 26th, BLACKPINK said “It’s an honorable moment our BLINKS made for us. Thank you so much and we love you. We’re really happy that this album, which was completed after so much consideration and effort by many staff, has been reached to the public the way we wanted”.
Members then added, “We really wanted to present BLACKPINK’s upgraded music, and portray our originality during the process of making “BRN PINK”. We’ll do our best to show the best of us in future as well”.
According to a preview article released by U.S. Billboard on the 25th (local time), BLACKPINK’s 2nd full album ‘BORN PINK’ will enter the ‘Billboard 200’ chart as 1st as of October 1st. Not only is this the first as a K-POP female artist, but a record that comes in 14 years and 5 months as a girl-group around the world since Danity Kane back in 2008.
BLACKPINK previously broke their own record of ranking 2nd on UK’s official album chart with their 1st full album on the 24th, by ranking first. Not only is BLACKPINK the only Asian female artist to take over both major charts around the world, but even when considering the overall global market, it’s a record broken in 21 years since Destiny’s Child in 2001.
Major foreign media outlets also reported on their outstanding performance. U.S. Economic Magazine Forbes, said, “BLACKPINK ranking number one on Billboard 200 has a special meaning. They rewrote history”. This shows how BLACKPINK marked their presence clear around the world, going beyond K-POP”. This shows that BLACKPINK has left a clear mark in music history around the world beyond K-pop.
BLACKPINK entered the ‘Billboard 200’ chart as 40th with ‘DDU-DU DDU-DU’ back in 2018, and kept ranking themselves on the main chart every time they released an album such as their 1st mini-album ‘SQUARE UP’ (40th), 2nd mini-album ‘KILL THIS LOVE (24th)’, and 1st full album ‘THE ALBUM (2nd)’.
BLACKPINK’s unrivaled influence can be seen much clearly on YouTube as well. They entered the ‘Most number of subscribers TOP5’ list as the first non-English speaking artist in July 2020, and surpassed other artists quickly, eventually having the most number of subscribers among all artists around the world in September 10th 2021. They currently have 81.8 million subscribers on their channel, 33 clips that have hundreds and millions of views, and 26.9 billion cumulative views for their videos, once again proving their unrivaled presence and influence in the area.
BLACKPINK’s 2nd full album ‘BORN PINK’ recorded more than 2 million pre-orders during the pre-sale period, and sold 2,141,281 copies in just half a day (including sales from North America and Europe), becoming the first K-POP girl group to become a “double million seller”. It also topped the iTunes album chart in 60 countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, and ranked first on the Apple Music album chart in 64 countries.
2022. 9. 26.
