BLACKPINK has just made K-pop history on the UK Official Singles Chart with "Pink Venom" once again! Keep on reading to know what the quartet achieved this time.
BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom" Becomes First Song by Female K-pop Artist to Score THIS on UK Official Singles Chart
On Sept. 9 local time, the United Kingdom's Official Charts (commonly deemed as the U.K. equivalent to Billboard's U.S. charts) updated their Singles Chart Top 100 for the week of Sept. 9 to 15. And according to the chart, BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom" had successfully remained in the top 40 for the third consecutive week.
After entering the UK Official Singles Chart at No. 22 for the week of Aug. 26 to Sept. 1, "Pink Venom" ranked 37th for the week of Sept. 2 to 8- becoming the first song solely by a female K-pop artist to stay in the top 40 for two weeks.
Now, the pre-release single took No. 40 on the latest tally. Although the track went down by three places, it still made history on the chart.
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BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom" is now the first song by a female K-pop artist in history to spend three consecutive weeks in the top 40 of the UK Official Singles Chart.
While BLACKPINK previously attained the milestone with "Kiss and Make Up" (their 2018 collab with Dua Lipa) and "Sour Candy" (their 2020 collab with Lady Gaga), "Pink Venom" is the first track entirely sang by a female K-pop artist to last for three weeks on the chart.
Additionally, "Pink Venom" is now BLACKPINK's eighth song to debut on the UK Official Singles Chart overall, following "DDU-DU DDU-DU," "Kill This Love," "How You Like That," "Kiss and Make Up," "Ice Cream," "Sour Candy," and "Lovesick Girls."
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To date, the record for the longest-charting song by a female K-pop artist on the chart is held by "Kiss and Make Up," which spent 12 weeks on the tally.
Meanwhile, BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom" has also spent three consecutive weeks on the UK Audio Streaming Chart and the UK Official Singles Download Chart for the week of Sept. 9 to 15. It secured No. 74 and No. 94, respectively.
Finally, "Pink Venom" climbed up to No. 19 on the UK TV Airplay Chart and became the biggest gainer in the top 40 with a 237% increase.
Congratulations to BLACKPINK on their new historic feat!
BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom" Achieves Historic Feat on Billboard Global Charts This Week
Prior to making history on the UK Official Singles Chart, BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom" achieved new milestones on Billboard.
For the week ending on Sept. 10, Billboard announced that "Pink Venom" once again took the top spot on both the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts. This marks the song's second week in first place on the two charts.
BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom" is now the first song- and the only song, so far- by a K-pop artist to spend two weeks at No. 1 on the two Billboard global charts at the same time this 2022.
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On top of that, BLACKPINK has become the first girl group in history to simultaneously rank a song in first place on both charts.
According to Billboard, "Pink Venom" topped both the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S charts this week for the second week as it sold 108.4 million streams and 7,000 downloads worldwide in the week ending on Sept. 1, as per Luminate. In the territories outside the U.S., in the same tracking week, "Pink Venom" sold 99.5 million streams and 5,000 downloads.
Watch BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom" music video again below:
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Written by Maria Scott
