BLACKPINK's New Song 'Pink Venom' Tops Spotify... First K-Pop Girl Group to Achieve This
[Asia Economy Reporter Seo Mideum] Girl group BLACKPINK's new song "Pink Venom," released on the 19th, has reached number one on the world's largest streaming platform, Spotify. It is the first song by a K-pop female artist to achieve this.
According to their agency YG Entertainment on the 21st, the song ranked first on the US Spotify "Global Top 50" chart. It garnered great popularity with 7,937,063 streams on the first day alone. This broke the previous record of second place on Spotify set by "How You Like That" in 2020.
It also enjoyed considerable popularity on iTunes. "Pink Venom," the pre-release track from their second full album, topped the charts in 73 countries on the day of release. The music video surpassed 100 million views on YouTube within 29 hours of its release, becoming the fastest K-pop girl group music video to reach 100 million views.
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On the 20th, BLACKPINK was nominated in three categories at the US popular music awards "MTV Video Music Awards" (VMA), including "Group of the Year," "Best Metaverse Performance," and "Best K-pop."
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