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BLACKPINK has sold 1 million copies of ‘Born Pink’ even when the first day is not yet over, becoming first Kpop girl group to do so

K-pop girl group BLACKPINK became a million-seller on the release day of their 2nd regular album ‘BORN PINK’.

According to the real-time chart of Hanteo Chart, an album sales aggregation site on the 16th, ‘Born Pink’, released at 1 pm on the 16th, surpassed the cumulative sales of 1 million copies at 8:14 pm on the same day after about 7 hours.

As of 8:30 pm on the same day, 592,000 copies of the box set version of ‘Bone Pink’, 387,000 copies of the Digipack version, and 29,000 copies of the kit version were sold, exceeding 1 million copies in total.

BLACKPINK is the first K-pop girl group to sell over 1 million copies on the first day of the album’s release. In the meantime, popular boy groups such as BTS and SVT sold more than 1 million copies on the same day.

Earlier, pre-orders for ‘Born Pink’ exceeded 2 million copies. With this album ‘Born Pink’, BLACKPINK is expected to record a ‘double million seller’ for the first time in the K-pop girl group history.

The cumulative sales of BLACKPINK’s 1st album ‘The Album’ were known to have sold 1.25 million copies. With this album, Blackpink became the first Kpop girl group to reach this milestone. So far, the highest number of album sales by a K-pop girl group is 1.64 million copies recorded by aespa with 2nd mini album ‘Girls’ released in July.

Besides, BLACKPINK is highly likely to debut at number one on the US Billboard main album chart ‘Billboard 200’ with ‘Born Pink’. BLACKPINK is now the highest-ranked K-pop girl group on the chart. It took second place with ‘The Album’ released in October 2020.

On the other hand, BLACKPINK is also strong on the domestic music charts. The title song ‘Shut Down’ of ‘Born Pink’ is ranked 5th on Melon, the largest music platform in Korea, as of 8 pm on the same day.

At the same time, the music video for ‘Shut Down’, which was reported to have the highest production cost in YG history, is also recording an explosive number of views. As of 8 pm on the same day, 7 hours after its release, it has surpassed 23 million views.

Source: newsis

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