BLACKPINK’s ‘Pink Venom’ Reaches 200 million Streams on Spotify
[스타뉴스=이덕행 기자] BLACKPINK once again set a meaningful milestone on world’s biggest music platform Spotify.
YG Entertainment said on the 30th that the pre-release single for BLACKPINK’s 2nd full album ‘Pink Venom’ reached 200 million streams on Spotify.
This feat comes in 42 days since it was released on August 19th, and the fastest among K-POP female artists who reached the same number of streams.
The previous record holder was BLACKPINK member LISA’s solo-song ‘MONEY’ (65 days), and the runner up was BLACKPINK’s ‘How You Like That’ (86 days). BLACKPINK proved their unrivaled global influence by listing themselves on the top 3 in this area.
Meanwhile, BLACKPINK took the first place on U.S. Billboard’s 200 and UK’s Official Album Chart with their 2nd full album ‘BORN PINK’. Not only is the group the only Asian female artist to take the top spot on both major charts in the world, but this comes in 21 years since Destiny’s Child in 2001, looking at it from a global music market scale.
Their title-song ‘Shut Down’ also achieved a meaningful record by reaching 25th of Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart. Their pre-release single ‘Pink Venom’ which reached a new record as a K-POP girl group’s single song by entering the chart as 22nd on the week it was released, further reached 53rd, 67th, and 74th on the chart, and then climbed back up to 57th, maintaining a high record for 5 consecutive weeks, signaling a ‘popularity long-run’ globally.
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