BLACKPINK's Rose Just Made K-Pop History In The UK. As you know, the singer with a unique voice has just debuted solo by releasing a single album titled '-R-'.
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Rose BLACKPINK (Black Pink) has just made K-pop history in the UK. As is well known, the singer with a unique voice has just debuted solo by releasing a single album titled "-R-" which contains 2 songs, namely "On The Ground" and "GONE".
Yesterday, Friday (19/3) local time, Official Charts UK announced that Rosé's solo debut song "On The Ground" has entered the Official Singles Chart at No. 43 for the week of March 19 to March 25. With this historic chart debut, Rose has become the first female K-pop soloist to ever enter the Official Singles Chart.
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The Official Singles Chart itself is a chart that ranks the most popular songs in the United Kingdom. (The Official Charts are often considered the UK equivalent of the US Billboard charts.) BLACKPINK previously made history as the first K-pop girl group to enter the Official Charts.
They successfully charted with "DDU-DU DDU-DU" in 2018. In the following years, they have had a number of other hits on the charts, including "Kill This Love", "How You Like That," "Ice Cream. , ”And“ Lovesick Girls ”.
On the other hand, R ose recently reportedly set the record for highest first week sales of female soloists in a day through "-R-". According to the Hanteo Chart, Rose's first solo album has reached 282,674 sales in just one day since the release of her physical album on March 16.
This means that Rose has broken IU's record where 147,856 units of "Love Poem" have been sold in the first week. Rose's solo album "-R-" has more than 500,000 in stock upfront. This amount represents the number of orders not only from Korea, but also many other regions including the United States, Japan, and China.
This album also made an impressive record on Spotify. Its title track, "On The Ground" debuted at No. 8 on Spotify's Global Top 50 daily chart for March 12 (local time) with 3,262,615 streams in the first 24 hours since release. (wk / daughter)