The single was also no.1 in 35 countries on iTunes. Their efforts paid off because the album became the first a Korean girl group to surpass 500 million streams on Spotify. With “Kill This Love,” BLACKPINK’s company revealed that the group would be releasing a more intense lead single than previously before. Unlike their previous Japanese albums, this one featured no Korean versions of their songs.
The album featured Japanese versions of BLACKPINK’s most popular tracks since their debut. The music video also became the most viewed music video by a female k-pop solo artist in 24 hours.īLACKPINK In Your Area was the third Japanese album released by the group, but their first Japanese studio album. “SOLO” debuted at the top of the Gaon Digital Chart in South Korea and also reached the top spot on Billboard’s World Digital Song Sales Chart. Jennie was the first BLACKPINK member to release solo music. The song debuted at number 36 on the UK Singles Chart, which made BLACKPINK the first Korean girl group to make it into the top 40. “Forever Young” followed hot on its heels on July 14 as the second single.īLACKPINK teamed up with Dua Lipa on “Kiss and Make Up,” which has made it onto regular rotation on my playlists since it hit the airwaves on 4 September 2018. “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du” is also the highest-charting Hot 100 hit ever by an all-female K-pop group, having opened at number 55. This included the now insanely popular “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du,” which was released as the lead single. On June 15 2018, BLACKPINK delivered their first EP, called Square Up, which featured several incredible songs. They included additional Japanese versions of “As If It’s Your Last” and “Whistle” as well as the other songs they’d released in Japanese previously. Re:BLACKPINK served as a repackage album of their first Japanese album, BLACKPINK. Whistle (Acoustic version/Japanese version) The group titled their debut Japanese album after their own name BLACKPINK with Japanese versions of “Boombayah,” “Whistle,” “Playin With Fire,” and “Stay.”Ħ. The EP sold over 8,000 copies, despite his songs failing to chart.5. In July 2016, he released the single ‘I'm Good,’ followed by the EP ‘I Am SE7EN,’ with the carrier single ‘Give It to Me’ in October. SE7EN established his own agency, ELEVEN9 Entertainment, after being discharged from the military and ending his contract with YG Entertainment, but it took over a year before he released new music. That title track marked the first official collaboration between YG Entertainment and JYP Entertainment artists, as well as gave SE7EN his first No.1 on the Gaon Chart (now known as Circle Chart). His 2012 comeback, ‘When I Can't Sing’, was even written and produced by Park Jinyoung aka JYP of JYP Entertainment himself. The underwhelming US debut did not affect SE7EN's stardom in South Korea, where his comebacks were unquestionably successful until 2012. SE7EN, like all K-pop acts trying to break into the American music scene, was met with mixed reactions. Like many other K-pop acts at that moment, there was a massive outcry for SE7EN to make his American debut in the rather picky and fickle-minded American market, so he did so in 2009 with the song ‘Girls’, which featured rapper Li'l Kim. He maintained his popularity in South Korea, which eventually spread throughout the rest of Asia, as he also made his debut in China and Japan. He also won several Rookie of the Year awards in his home country, demonstrating his popularity in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
People took notice when YG Entertainment launched SE7EN to the Korean public as a soloist who isn't known for ballads or trots. Usher, Craig David, Mario, and Chris Brown (not to mention Latino singers like Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin) were outscoring the American, European, and even Asian music charts in 2003, and becoming male R&B or soul soloists became fashionable. SE7EN made his debut and quickly gained popularity. Later that year, he was named MNET's Best Newcomer.Ī successful debut under YG Entertainment His debut album, ‘Just Listen,’ was released on March 8, 2003.
With ‘Come Back To Me,’ he made his debut in 2003. At the age of fifteen, SE7EN joined the management company YG Entertainment. Choi Dong Wook, popularly known as SE7EN, is a South Korean singer who has achieved success in Japan, China, and the United States.
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