This is a list of other achievements that BLACKPINK has had outside of streaming charts like Gaon and Billboard. The majority of them come from U.S. based magazines and websites (YouTube, Tumblr, Spotify, etc.) because this is what I’m familiar with as an American K-pop fan. But I’d also like to point out that BLACKPINK is incredibly popular across the globe and has had plenty other accomplishments in many other countries!
NOTE FROM KATHERINE – BLACKPINK has had a LOT of achievements over the past couple years. Since there’s so much information, I decided to break everything down into separate pages. Here are the links for the other pages: Music Show Wins, Sales and Streaming, Billboard Achievements, YouTube Views, and Awards.
2016
- Shortly after BLACKPINK debuted, Rolling Stone put them on a list of “10 New Artists You Need to Know.” (Dua Lipa is also on this list before “New Rules” came out… I find this so wild given how famous she is now.)
- Shortly after BLACKPINK debuted, Entertainment Weekly listed “Whistle” in an article about under-the-radar singles.
- BLACKPINK placed #19 on Tumblr’s “2016 Top K-pop.”
- “Boombayah” and “Whistle” placed #6 and #8 respectively on YouTube’s list of most watched K-pop music videos globally.
2017
- “As If It’s Your Last” was #15 on YouTube’s “Top 25 Songs of the Summer” and was the only K-pop song on the list.
- “As If It’s Your Last” was the #8 most watched music video on YouTube in 2018 in South Korea.
- “As If It’s Your Last” was the #1 most watched K-pop music video on YouTube in 2017 globally.
- BLACKPINK placed #7 on Tumblr’s “2017 Top K-pop.”
2018
- “DDU-DU DDU-DU” was #3 on YouTube’s “Top 10 Songs of the Summer” and was the only K-pop song on the list.
- BLACKPINK placed #10 on Tumblr’s “2018 Top K-pop.”
- “DDU-DU DDU-DU” was #13 on the New York Times‘ list of “The 65 Best Songs of 2018.”
- “DDU-DU DDU-DU” was the #2 most watched music video on YouTube in 2018 in South Korea.
- “DDU-DU DDU-DU” was the #1 most watched K-pop music video on YouTube in 2018 globally.
- “DDU-DU DDU-DU” was #8 on Rolling Stone‘s “10 Best Music Videos of 2018” and was the only K-pop music video on the list.
2019
- BLACKPINK was the first K-pop girl group to place #1 on the U.S. iTunes Song Chart (for “Kill This Love”).
- BLACKPINK won “Best in Music” at the 11th Shorty Awards, an awards ceremony that focuses on achievements in social media across various fields and industries.
- BLACKPINK was the first Korean girl group to receive a RIAA gold certification in the United States (for “DDU DU DDU DU”).
- BLACKPINK was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Next of 2019.
- “Kill This Love” was the #7 most watched music video on YouTube globally and was also the only K-pop music video in the Top 10.
- BLACKPINK placed #7 on Tumblr’s “2019 Top K-pop.”
- Three of the members also ranked on Tumblr’s “Top K-pop Stars in 2019”: Jennie at #27, Lisa at #35, and Jisoo at #44.
- BLACKPINK placed #2 on Spotify’s “Top K-pop Artists of 2019.”
- “Kill This Love” was the #3 most liked music video on YouTube in 2019.
- “Kill This Love” was the #4 most watched music video on YouTube within South Korea.
- “Kill This Love” and Jennie’s “SOLO” were #3 and #7 respectively on Bugs Music’s list of “Most Loved Videos” of 2019.
- BLACKPINK’s Instagram account and those of all four members were in the Top 10 Korean Instagram Accounts of 2019.
- “Kill This Love” was #9 on British GQ’s list of “The Biggest, Boldest Songs of 2019.”
- “Kill This Love” placed #44 on Genie Music‘s top 100 songs of 2019;.
- BLACKPINK’s “In Your Area” world tour was named most successful world tour by a K-pop girl group.
- BLACKPINK was on several lists for K-pop Twitter 2019:
- #5 most mentioned K-pop account globally (and only girl group in the Top 10)
- #9 fastest rising K-pop hashtag (for #KILLTHISLOVE)
- #1 fastest rising K-pop account (meaning in comparison to 2018)
2020
- Gold House included BLACKPINK on their A100 list for 2020, which honors Asians, Asian-Americans, and Pacific Islanders who have made an impact on various career fields and industries.
- BLACKPINK was on several lists for K-pop Twitter 2020 (which had data collected from July 2019 to June 2020):
- #4 most mentioned K-pop artist in the world (highest ranking for a girl group)
- #9 most mentioned K-pop song in the world for “How You Like That’ (highest ranking for a girl group)
- BLACKPINK is also the #7 K-pop artist with the most amount of followers on Twitter.
- BLACKPINK is currently the 2nd Most Subscribed Artist on YouTube after Justin Bieber.
- All of the songs on The Album debuted within the Top 25 of Spotify’s Global Top 50 a day after release. “Lovesick Girls” was the highest at #3, which makes it the highest ranking debut on the chart for any song by a girl group. BLACKPINK also previously set this record when “How You Like That” debuted at #5, and then broke it again when “Ice Cream” debuted at #4 – meaning that “Lovesick Girls” is the second time they’ve broken their own record.
SOURCES: British GQ (1), Bugs Music, Entertainment Weekly (1), Genie Music, Gold House (1), Instagram, New York Times (1), Rolling Stone (1) (2), Shorty Awards (1), Soompi (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21), Spotify (1) (2), TIME Magazine (1), Tumblr (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Twitter (1), YouTube
The cover image is a promotional photo for BLACKPINK’s single “Ice Cream” and belongs to YG Entertainment.
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