BLACKPINK continues to break records after being named as the biggest female band in the world. On Sunday, April 15, the YG Entertainment-formed group reached another milestone on YouTube Music, YouTube, and Spotify.
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BLACKPINK Earns New Title on YouTube Music in the U.S.
It was revealed that BLACKPINK is, currently, the most streaming female group on YouTube Music in the United States. The group of Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé was able to accumulate more than 127 million streams in the first 15 weeks of 2021 so far.
Data revealed that most people who stream BLACKPINK music videos are from the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, San Jose, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and San Diego. The top song is "How You Like That" with more than 16.7 million streams in the last 12 months.
Other popular songs of BLACKPINK are "DDU-DU DDU-U" with 10.9 million streams, "Kill This Love" with 10.8 million streams, "Pretty Savage" with 9.6 million streams, "On the Ground" by Rosé with 9.49 million streams, "Lovesick Girls" with 7.74 million streams and "Ice Cream" with 7.28 million streams. "Boombayah," "As If It's Your Last" and "Whistle" also made it to the Top 10 with 6.42 million streams, 4.54 million streams, and 3.58 million streams, respectively.
BLACKPINK is also one of the most-streamed artists on YouTube South Korea. K-pop princess IU dominated the list, followed by SG Wannabe, BTS, Brave Girls, and Justin Bieber on the second to fifth spots, respectively. BLACKPINK secured the sixth place while Lim Young Woong nabbed the seventh place. SHINee, TWICE and IZ*ONE wrapped up the Top 10.
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BLACKPINK Reaches New Milestone with 'How You Like That'
Meanwhile, BLACKPINK made another feat on YouTube after the official dance performance video of "How You Like That" surpassed the 10 million likes mark recently. The milestone just made the clip the most-liked K-pop dance performance on the history of YouTube.
Other K-pop dance clips with the most likes include "Kill This Love" by BLACKPINK with 4.8 million likes, "GO (GOGO)" by BTS with 4.5 million likes, "DDU-DU DDU-DU" by BLACKPINK with 4.3 million likes, and "Lovesick Girls" with 4.2 million likes.
If that is not enough, BLACKPINK recently tied with Little Mix as the female group with the most songs that broke the 300 million streams on Spotify. At the moment, the South Korean girl group has five songs with more than 300 million streams, including "Kill This Love" with more than 447 million streams, "DDU-DU DDU-DU" with 376 million streams, "Kiss and Make Up" with more than 422 million streams, "How You Like That" with 419 million streams.
BLACKPINK was even the fastest group to surpass 10 million subscribers on YouTube. In fact, it only took them two years and three weeks to achieve such as milestone. Coming in the second spot is One Direction, who made it after two years and 11 months. CNCO and Fifth Harmony, then, secured the third and fourth spots, respectively.
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Written by Nica Vaughn
