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SEOUL December 31 (Yonhap) -- K-pop girl group BLACKPINK addressed their thoughts as 2022 is coming to an end “Due to so much love we have received by our fans we were able to have such a wonderful year.”
Through group’s entertainment agency YG Entertainment, BLACKPINK addressed on Saturday “We were able to have such wonderful year due to BLINK (BLACKPINK’s Fans),” adding “we will strive forward to provide our fans with more tracks in the future.”
K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s second full length album “Born Pink” released in 2022, sold out over 2.82 million copies according to Circle Chart. Since YG Entertainment’s world tour is under schedule, the album might be able to hit the 3 million mark throughout the duration of their world tour.
BLACKPINK’s second full length album “Born Pink” topped not only Billboard’s main album chart “Billboard 200” but also in England’s Official Album chart “Top 100.” BLACKPINK is the first Asian female artist to have set the record. Overall BLACKPINK is the first female artist to have set the record 21 years after Destiny Child in 2001.
Pre release track “Pink Venom” topped world’s biggest streaming platform Spotify’s “Top Song Global” chart for three consecutive days. The title track “Shut Down” managed to top the chart for six consecutive days and for the first time amongst K-pop artist it managed to top the weekly chart provided by Spotify.
Basing off from their fame BLACKPINK put up their name under the segment “Most Streamed Girl group of 2022” under Spotify Global.
Currently K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has most amount of subscribers among global artists by topping over 83 million subscribers on YouTube. The group has 37 of their videos with 100 million vies and overall view count of their video surpasses 28.4 billion views.
Moreover, BLACKPINK has over 342 million followers on Instagram.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo)
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