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The M/V for BLACKPINK's hit song Ddu-Du-Ddu-Du broke K-Pop record and hit 500 million views in 162 days, the first for a K-Pop girl group.
BLACKPINK sets new K-Pop Star record...surpassing even BTS?
According to BLACKPINK's label, YG Entertainment the music video released on June 15th hit the 500 million mark at 4 pm yesterday, on the 25th of November.
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Though there have been K-Pop groups such as PSY or BTS before who have hit the 500 million view mark, this is the first for a K-Pop girl group to do so. Except for PSY, this breakthrough has actually occurred in the shortest time span as BTS's record for DNA was only made a year after its first release.
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Not only that, but BLACKPINK is the only K-Pop group, girl or boy group aside, to hold the most M/V's with a record of over 400 million views. In addition, Ddu-Du-Ddu-Du, BLACKPINK's two other songs including As If It's Your Last, and Boombayah have views that are over 400 million.
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After BLACKPINK's debut in August of 2016, the girl group holds a total of six songs, including Boombayah, Playing With Fire, Whistle, Stay, As If It's Your Last, and Ddu-du-Ddu-du with over ten million views.
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BLACKPINK is scheduled to launch their first World Tour in January of next year. Starting in Bangkok, Thailand, the tour will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia; Hong Kong; Manila, Philippines; Singapore; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and end in Taipei, Taiwan.
By Bongbong and SongGirl voomvoomk@gmail.com
