BLACKPINK's first full-length album was ranked 2nd on the Billboard 200 chart, the US Billboard's main album chart, and recorded the highest record of all-time K-pop girl groups.
Billboard announced through a notice on the 12th that BLACKPINK's 1st album'THE ALBUM' debuted at number 2 on the latest Billboard 200 chart.
This is the highest ranking ever recorded by K-pop girl groups on the Billboard 200 chart.
Billboard's overall rank is the highest ranking as a female group since American group Danity Kane reached number one with the'Welcome to the Dollhouse' album in April 2008.
Black Pink has been on the rise, ranking 40th with'Square Up' in 2018 and 24th with'Kill This Love' last year on the Billboard 200, and has been self-renewing on the highest ranking of K-pop girl groups.
With this album, we have reached the top of the list and made a leap forward.
According to the Nielsen Music data released by Billboard,'The Album', released on the 2nd, acquired an album unit worth 110,000 pieces in the US in the first week of its release (2-8th).
Billboard calculates the album consumption ranking by adding up the sales of traditional albums such as real albums, the number of streaming times converted into album sales (SEA), and the number of digital music downloads converted into album sales (TEA).
Among the total score achieved by Black Pink, traditional album sales accounted for the largest portion with 81,000 copies.
This was also fueled by the sale of Merchandise (MD) bundles and many types of CDs, Billboard said.
In addition, Black Pink earned 26,000 units for streaming and 2,000 units for digital music download.
'The Album' debuted on the British Official Chart, which is counted as one of the world's two largest pop charts along with the Billboard Chart, and made its debut in the first week of its release, breaking the highest ranking of K-pop girl groups.
Records released on the 6th in Korea are sold over 600,000 copies (excluding some exports to the US and Europe) based on Hanteo Chart, breaking the record for K-Pop girl groups in the first week of sales (first week of sales).
The title track of this album,'Lovesick Girls', reached the top of YouTube's'Global YouTube Song Top 100' on the 2nd-8th of this month.
'Love Style Girls' was also recorded as the most watched music video in a week on YouTube.
'The Album' is the first full-length album released by Black Pink 4 years after their debut, and is evaluated for showing the musical color of Black Pink comprehensively.
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