MUSIC
BLACKPINK's Jisoo, 'Flower' MV surpasses 300 million views in 88 days
According to YG Entertainment on the 28th, Jisoo's music video for 'FLOWER' surpassed 300 million YouTube views at 6:22 pm the previous day. It was the 23rd time in the team's career to join the ranks of the 300 million-view video, about 88 days after it was released on March 31.
Immediately after its release, the music video went straight to #1 on YouTube Worldwide Trending and reached 100 million views in 7 days. This is the reason why Jisoo's ever-changing charm was captured in a chapter format, and the performance that maximized the theme of the song drew a favorable response.
Jisoo's first solo album [ME] title song 'FLOWER' is a song that stands out with a unique sound base and minimal arrangement. It topped the iTunes Top Song Chart in 64 countries, including the United States. It also reached number two on the US Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global (Excl. US) charts.
'FLOWER' achieved new records as a K-pop female solo artist, such as ranking 6th on the Spotify Daily Top Song Global Chart, ranking 38th on the UK Official Singles Top 100 Chart, and surpassing 100 million streams on Spotify in just 32 days. [ME], which contains this song, sold 1,172,351 copies in one week, becoming the first K-pop female solo artist album to become a 'Million Seller'.
BLACKPINK is conducting the largest world tour of a K-pop girl group, ‘BLACKPINK WORLD TOUR [BORN PINK]’, which mobilizes about 1.5 million people. Having entered the second half of the tour with a successful performance in Australia, they plan to move to Paris and breathe with French fans once again. At the 'Hyde Park British Summertime Festival', a British music festival to be held in July, he will perform as the first headliner of a K-pop artist.
Reporter Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia bella@tenasia.co.kr
