It’s only the middle of the first month of 2023, but Blackpink is bringing in countless new records.
Sold out show tickets in Taiwan (China)
Blackpink’s Asia tour in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung city, China on March 18, 2023 quickly sold out. Due to the increased demand from the audience, YG Entertainment added 4 more concerts in Asia, of which, Kaohsiung got an extra day on March 19.
According to ticket issuer Live Nation Taiwan, up to 120,000 people lined up online at noon on January 12 to compete for tickets to Blackpink’s concert. Tickets for the show on March 19 were sold out in about 4 minutes of opening.
In total, 90,000 tickets for Blackpink’s 2 concerts in Kaohsiung were sold out.
Blackpink broke the record of 80,000 tickets for two Coldplay concerts in 2017, becoming the foreign artist to sell the most tickets for an outdoor concert in Kaohsiung.
According to Touring Data, Blackpink’s Born Pink tour is aiming for a revenue of 200 million USD (about 4.6 trillion VND), with more than 1.1 million tickets sold in 53 shows, after the group added additional shows in Kaohsiung, Singapore and Macau.
Blackpink received many nominations for awards
At the iHeartRadio Music Awards 2023, Blackpink received 4 nominations, twice as many as BTS.
Specifically, Blackpink won 4 nominations including “Best Duo/Group of the Year”, “Favorite Sample Sample”, “Best Music Video” and “Best Fan Community”. .
The 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards will be held on March 27, and the global fan vote will take place from January 11 to March 20.
According to Korean media predictions, Blackpink is likely to win big at this year’s awards.
Blackpink’s DDU-DU DDU-DU hits 2 billion views
This achievement helps Blackpink become the first Kpop group to achieve this record.
This achievement was achieved on 4.12.2023. Launched on June 15, 2018, DDU-DU DDU-DU, after only 24 hours of launch, has excellently achieved the top 1 trending achievement in 4 major countries: the US, UK, Korea, Japan and many other countries.
Besides, the view after 24 hours was also confirmed by YouTube to reach 36.2 million views and became the second most viewed MV in the world at that time.
SRC: https://laodong.vn/
