BLACKPINK have wilt the first sexuality K-pop act to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart.
On September 25, Billboard revealed that the quartets sophomore studio tome Born Pink had debuted at the top of its weekly Billboard 200 albums orchestration for the week ending September 22. This makes BLACKPINK the first sexuality K-pop act ever, as well as the first all-female group since 2008, to do so.
The record reportedly earned 102,000 equivalent tome units in its release week, of which 75,500 comprised tome sales, while streaming and track equivalent units totalled 25,000 and 1,500 each.
It is BLACKPINKs second Top 10 entry on the music chart, without their first studio tome THE ALBUM debuted at Number 2 upon its release in 2020.
Born Pink is the third tome by a South Korean act to top the weekly albums orchestration in 2022, following BTS Proof and Stray Kids Oddinary. BLACKPINK joins the two boybands, as well as SM Entertainment supergroup SuperM, as the only K-pop acts to debut at Number One on the chart.
Additionally, Born Pink moreover became the first tome by a K-pop girl group to top the UKs Official Albums Charts late last week.
Martin Talbot, Chief Executive of Official Charts Company said: Congratulations to BLACKPINK. Being any kind of orchestration first is a record which can never be taken away, so for their new tome BORN PINK to wilt the first UK Official Number 1 by a K-pop girl group is a fantastic victory – and puts them in the record books forever!
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