A Big Slap to those Antis who are saying that BLACKPINK IS "FLOP"

HERE ARE BLACKPINK'S ACHIEVEMENTS ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEARS

~A Thread

-1st gg to get a #1 on US iTunes since destiny’s child 15 years ago
-1st kpop girl group ever to get a RIAA gold certificate
-Blackpink become 1st kpop groups to receive YouTube Diamond
-charted on the billboard 100 for a month and entered the UK top 40

-the best selling kpop girl group in the US
-the most streamed kpop girlgroup worldwide on spotify
-1st Kpop group to be #1 on world digital songs chart
- Kpop Girgroup with the post paks (93!!)

-Tour expected to gross over 44 million making it the third highest gg tour in history
-First girlgroup with 2 billion accumulated digital points on gaon
-Forever young and dkwtd are the best selling Kpop gg side tracks in the US
-got 1st western award only 2 years post debut

-Credited by KOMCA as a contributor to 140% increase in overseas copyrights
-most followed Kpop group on IG and youtube as well as most viewed Kpop group mv
- Debuted with a PAK
-Jennie was the best selling female soloist for 2018

- Square up surpassed 100 million streams on genie making it the first album by a girl group to do so
-Blackpink is now the most subscribed group in history on youtube
- Also the most liked female act on youtube after Adele

-they are the first act in history to receive a certification for all of gaon's categories such as streaming, download and album
-the kpop girl group with the most #1 on itunes
-jennie is the korean soloist to spend the most weeks on billboard world digital song sales charts

-In June of 2019 Lilifilm (Lisa’s YouTube channel) reached 1 mil subscribers. She later received her YT play button.
-The channel is the 3rd most subscribed to Kpop idol solo channel, currently with 2 mil subscribers.

-BLACKPINK legit KGG WORLD TOUR across Asia, America, Europe, and Oceania! Grossing million dollar in UK and Germany so far with no promo.
-No Japan dome shows yet counted. Take note, it's their first WORLD TOUR!

- First K-Pop ACT to debut on #1 and #2 on the Billboard World Digital Songs with "Boombayah" and "Whistle"
- First K-pop Girl Group to enter on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 Chart with "Playing with Fire"

- First and Only K-Pop Girl Group with THREE entries on BB Hot 100 with 'DDU-DU DDU-DU', 'Kiss and Make Up' and 'Kill This Love'
- First and Only K-Pop Girl Group to have TWO entries on Billboard 200 with 'SQUARE UP' and 'Kill This Love'

- First and Only K-Pop Girl Group to spend FOUR CONSECUTIVE WEEKS on the Billboard Hot 100 with 'Kill This Love'
- Highest Charting K-Pop Female Act on BOTH Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200
- First K-Pop Girl Group to debut on the UK Official Singles Chart

- First K-Pop Girl Group to reach #1 on US iTunes with 'Kill This Love' (Song)
- First K-Pop Girl Group to have a #1 on the Worldwide iTunes Song Chart with 'Kill This Love'
- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have a song with over 100 MILLION streams on Spotify with DDDD

- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have MULTIPLE songs with over 100 MILLION streams on Spotify.
- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have a song with over 200 MILLION streams on Spotify (with 'Kiss and Make Up')

- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have MULTIPLE songs with over 200 MILLION streams on Spotify
- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have an album/EP with over 100 MILLION streams on Spotify with 'SQUARE ONE'

- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have an album/EP with over 100 MILLION streams on Spotify with 'SQUARE ONE'
- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have MULTIPLE albums/EPs with over 100 MILLION streams on Spotify, including a Japanese Album/Repackage

- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have an album/EP with over 200 MILLION streams on Spotify with 'SQUARE UP'
- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have MULTIPLE albums/EPs with over 200 MILLION streams on Spotify.

- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have an album/EP with over 300 MILLION streams on Spotify with 'SQUARE UP'
- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to have MULTIPLE albums/EPs with over 300 MILLION streams on Spotify.

- First and ONLY K-Pop Girl Group to reach 8 MILLION followers on Spotify
- Most subscribed-to K-Pop ACT on Youtube
- First K-Pop Girl Group to perform at Coachella.
-SQUARE UP had highest first week sales on Hanteo for an album from YG Entertainment. (102,001 sales)

- SQUARE UP became best selling debut album for a girl group on Hanteo.
-SQUARE UP became the 5th highest first week sales on Hanteo for a girl group. (102,001 sales)
-BLACKPINK became third girl group ever to surpass 100,000 sales on Hanteo.

-All 4 tracks from the SQUARE UP debuted in the top 10 of the Gaon Weekly Download Chart with 1 day and 6 hours of sales.
-SQUARE UP is the best selling album by a girl group on KTown4U

-BLACKPINK achieved a Gaon Quadruple Crown by being #1 on 4 Gaon charts. (Digital, Download, Streaming & Mobile).
-They are the first girl group to achieve this and 1 of only 5 artists to ever do it.
-SQUARE UP debuted #1 on the Gaon Weekly Album Chart.

-DDDD broke the record for the highest Melon unique listeners in the first hour for a Girl Group (83,057 ULs)
-DDDD broke the record for the highest Melon unique listeners in the first 24 hours for a Girl Group (1,015,669 ULs)

- BLACKPINK became the only Idol Group after BIGBANG to break 1 million unique listeners on Melon.
-DDDD broke the record for the highest 7th day unique listeners of any song in Melon history (954,038 ULs).
-DDDD achieved a Realtime All-Kill 2 hours after release.

-DDDD achieved a Certified All-Kill 20 hours after release.
-DDDD achieved a Perfect All-Kill 54 hours after release.
-DDDD debuted #1 on the Gaon Weekly Download Chart and #3 on the Gaon Weekly Digital Chart with 1 day 6 hours of charting. (31,072,049 digital score)

-DDDD is tied for the most Melon roof hits for a girl group song with 13 roof hits.
-DDDD has the most Genie roof hits for a girl group song with 34 roof hits.
-DDDD achieved 121 Realtime All-Kills
-DDDD achieved 29 Certified All-Kills

-DDDD achieved 93 Hourly Perfect All-Kills
- DDDD achieved 2 Weekly Perfect All-Kills
-DDDD is the girl group song with the most Perfect All-Kills
-BLACKPINK became the first girl group to get a Perfect All-Kill after the chart reform.

-BLACKPINK became the first Korean girl group to have two #1 albums on the iTunes WW Album Chart.
-SQUARE UP went #1 on iTunes Worldwide Album Chart for 3 days.

-SQUARE UP was #1 on iTunes Worldwide Album Chart for the longest duration by a Korean girl group. (3 days) - BLACKPINK broke their own record for most #1’s on iTunes for a girl group by going #1 in 50 Countries and charting in 91 Countries on iTunes. (Previous record was 27)

SQUARE UP went #1 on Apple Music Albums in 17 Countries.
-DDDD went #1 on iTunes in 20 Countries and charted in 78 Countries -
-DDDD went #1 on Apple Music in 13 Countries.
-SQUARE UP became highest peaking album on the Billboard 200 by a Korean girl group.

-Placing at #40 SQUARE UP became the highest peaking album on the Billboard Canadian 200 by a Korean girl group. -
-Placing at #21.
BLACKPINK achieved the highest peak for a girl group on the Billboard Social 50 chart.
Placing at #5.

-SQUARE UP debuted #1 on the Billboard World Albums chart.
-All songs from SQUARE UP entered the Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart, with DDDD snatching the #1 spot.
-BLACKPINK became the first Korean girl group to reach #1 on the Billboard Emerging Artists chart

-SQUARE UP became the highest peaking album by a Korean girl group on the Official France Top Albums Chart.
-Placing at #4. SQUARE UP debuted #1 on the Oricon Digital Album Chart with only 1 day of sales. (3,915 downloads) SQUARE UP debuted #1 on the Recochoku Daily Album Chart.

-SQUARE UP debuted #8 on Billboard Japan Hot Albums Chart.
-SQUARE UP debuted #11 on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart with 3,980 copies sold.
(2 days of sales) SQUARE UP was #1 on Apple Music Japan for 14 days in a row.

-SQUARE UP debuted #24 on the official Switzerland Top Albums Chart becoming the first album by a Korean girl group to enter the chart.
-SQUARE UP has the best first week sales for a Korean girl group in the US with 14,000 pure sales.

-SQUARE UP debuted #10 on the United World Albums chart with 131,000 copies sold.
• Best Selling Girl Group of year 2019 (with a fucking mini album thay only consists of 5 songs and one's just a remix)
• Best Selling Korean Girl Group in US

• HIGHEST Grossing Korean Girl Group tour with only 13 songs to perform
• Most streamed Korean Girl Group in Korean History despite having kindergarten lyrics
• Highest charting korean gg on billboard hot 100
• Most #1 Singles on worldwide Itunes

• FIRST Korean Girl Group to enter UK Top 5
• 3rd Best selling korean girl group in a decade with 2 mini albums
• Fastest gg to to perform a dome concert
• 34,000,000+ record sold worldwide with songs that has unmeaningful lyrics
• 8M+ record sales in china

• Most perfect all kill (the hardest to achieve) with one song
• Highest earning youtube korean act annually with 16m
• Most subscribed korean group in youtube

• Member Lalisa Manoban tops as the most followed korean act in instagram grossing 30m, followed by Jennie Kim. ChaeSoo climbs for top 5.
• 3x platinum certifications in korea
• Highest Hanteo first day sales for girl group (ktl)
• First kgg in Coachella (followed by Sonic)

• listed alongside with pink, spice girls, ariana for billboard top tours of may
• Girlgroups B-side digital points in 2019
1. BLACKPINK- DKWTD: 108M*
2. BLACKPINK - Kick It: 19M
3. BLACKPINK- Hope Not : 14M

• Eligible certifications for DDU-DU DDU-DU:
US - Platinum, BR-Diamond, MY- 16x Platinum, TH-9x Platinum, SG7x Platinum
MX- 2x Platinum, CA-Platinum, PH-Platinum, PL-Platinumn, AR- Gold, AU Gold, IN-Gold, NZ-Gold

CHARTS AND STREAMING
BLACKPINK took a quadruple crown on the Gaon Charts with Square Up‘s release, placing first on the physical albums chart, overall digital chart, download chart, and streaming chart.

BLACKPINK achieved a Certified All Kill with “Ddu Du Ddu Du” one day after its release.
“Ddu Du Ddu Du” also has a Gaon Platinum Certification after passing 100 million streams.
-BLACKPINK received a Diamond Creator Award for having over 10 million subscribers on YouTube.

-"As If It’s Your Last” was #15 on YouTube’s Top 25 Songs of the Summer Global Chart (2017).
- “Ddu Du Ddu Du” was #3 on the Top 10 Songs of the Summer Global Chart (2018). Both were the only K-pop songs on the list.

-All of BLACKPINK’s official music videos have been watched over 100 million times on Youtube – and all of their actively promoted singles have been watched over at least 200 million times.
- All of their dance practice videos also have at least 69 million views.

100 million views: “Stay” (130 million), “As If It’s Your Last” Dance Practice (102 million), “Ddu Du Ddu Du” Dance Practice (142 million)
200 million views: “Whistle” (274 million), “Playing With Fire” (289 million)
400 million views: “Boombayah” (415 million)

“As If It’s Your Last” (434 million), “Ddu Du Ddu Du” (470 million)
“Ddu Du Ddu Du” has been consistently breaking YouTube records since it was released. It’s the K-pop music video with the most views in 24 hours (the only one to beat them is Taylor Swift).

Most recently, it became the fastest K-pop group music video to reach 450 million views.
“Ddu Du Ddu Du” and “Fake Love” by BTS are the only K-pop music videos that have passed 450 million views so far.

BILLBOARD
BLACKPINK has reached #1 on the World Digital Song Sale chart 4 times with “Boombayah,” “Playing With Fire,” “As If It’s Your Last,” and “Ddu Du Ddu Du”
BLACKPINK has topped the World Albums chart once with Square Up

Square Up and “Ddu Du Ddu Du” brought BLACKPINK a lot of Billboard achievements:
Square Up entered the Billboard 200 at #40 and is the highest charting album by a K-pop girl group
“Ddu Du Ddu Du” debuted at #55 on Billboard’s Hot 100, the highest charting hit by a K-pop girlgroup

“Ddu Du Ddu Du” debuted at #39 on the Streaming Songs chart making BLACKPINK the first K-pop girl group to appear on the chart.
BLACKPINK was the first K-pop girl group to debut at #1 on the Emerging Artist chart, as well as the second K-pop group to do so (the first was NCT)

Square Up has currently been on the Billboard World Albums chart for 17 weeks.
“Kiss and Make Up,” their collaboration with Dua Lipa, entered the Hot 100 at #93 and made BLACKPINK the only K-pop girl group to have multiple entries on the chart.

AWARDS
AWARDS WON (Korea only):
(NOTE: Since awards shows often take place in the beginning of the year, the year here refers to when the music was released)

2016:
Asia Artist Awards: Best Rookie Award and Top 50 Most Popular Artists (#41)
Gaon Chart Music Awards: Rookie of the Year, Song of the Year – August (“Whistle) and Song of the Year – November (“Playing With Fire”)
Golden Disc Awards: New Artist of the Year

Melon Music Awards: Best New Artist
MNET Asian Music Awards (MAMA) Best of Next Artist Award and Best Music Video for “Whistle”
Seoul Music Awards: New Artist of the Year

2017
Gaon Chart Music Awards: World Rookie Award
Golden Disc Awards: Digital Bonsang for “As If It’s Your Last”
Seoul Music Awards: Bonsang Award for “As If It’s Your Last”

The BRIT Awards announced that BLACKPINK and Dua Lipa’s collaboration track “Kiss and Make Up” had received an official silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
BLACKPINK DDU-DU DDU-DU Received Gold Certification from RIAA

BLACKPINK ranks first on Forbes Korea Power Celebrity 2019. BLACKPINK will also be on the cover of Forbes Korea, May 2019 Issue
BLACKPINK makes history on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated April 20), as the group’s new single “Kill This Love” becomes the highest-charting Hot 100

BLACKPINK’s “Kill This Love” also broke the record for fastest K-Pop girl group MV to hit 20 million views!
Their MV surpassed 36.26 million views on YouTube in less than 18 hours.
BLACKPINK’s “Kill This Love” holds the record for the 2nd biggest 24-hour video debut in YouTube

They're the first girl group in 15 years to hit #1 on US iTunes, had the BIGGEST Spotify streaming day for any Kpop-act with 5,317,900 streams and their video is fastest in history to surpass 100M views.

BLACKPINK Becomes 1st K-Pop Group To Receive BRIT Silver Certification For Song Category
Kill This Love” debuted at no. 1 on the Worldwide iTunes chart and entered the top 10 on US iTunes at no. 6.