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Blackpink top US Billboard chart with Born Pink album – the first K-pop girl group to do so, and the first all-female act to reach No 1 since 2008

  • The girl group hit the top spot on the influential US chart a week after releasing their second album, Born Pink
  • This makes them the first K-pop girl group to do so, and the first female act to reach No 1 since 2008

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K-pop girl group Blackpink took No 1 on the US Billboard chart with Born Pink, a week after their second album was released. Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images for MTV/Paramount Global
Tamar Herman

Blackpink made history over the weekend with their new album Born Pink, becoming the first all-female group since 2008 to top the US Billboard 200 album chart, one of the most influential music charts in the world.

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Released on September 16 and fronted by singles Pink Venom and Shut Down, the eight-track Born Pink is Blackpink’s first No 1 album in the US. Billboard revealed the news on September 25.

Although K-pop acts have become mainstays on international music charts in recent years, and several boy bands have risen to No 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, girl groups and female Korean artists had yet to hit the top spot.

Blackpink’s No 1 is the first for an all-female act since Danity Kane’s Welcome to the Dollhouse in April 2008.

Blackpink’s second full-length album arrived around two years after their first, The Album – which hit No 2 on the Billboard chart. Blackpink are also planning the largest K-pop concert tour ever by a female act.

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