The music video for “Lovesick girls,” the title track from girl group BLACKPINK‘s first full album, has surpassed 200 million views on YouTube.
According to YG Entertainment, BLACKPINK‘s music video for “Lovesick girls” surpassed 200 million views on YouTube at 11:14 am on October 25th. Since its release on October 2nd, it’s only been 22 days and 22 hours before reaching that figure. This is the group’s fourth track to quickly reach this number of views after the music videos for the mega hits of “How you like that“, “Ice cream” and “Kill this love“.
Additionally, BLACKPINK continues to make significant strides since its first song “Boombaya” and has all title songs released to date garner over 200 million views.
“Lovesick girls” is a song with a lyrical melody and powerful vocals from the BLACKPINK members in addition to country style guitar sounds, with JISOO and JENNIE participating in the songwriting and composition.
The music video features the mature acting act of the BLACKPINK members, as it was a heartwarming song that posed the ultimate question of why humans were hurt by love, but still looked for another love. Unlike previous performance-centric music videos, each member’s story was a new way to increase viewer empathy and immersion.
BLACKPINK has a total of 22 billion views. Among them, the music video for “Ddu-du ddu-du” reached 1.3 billion views, and those for “Kill this love” and “Boombaya” exceeded one billion views. BLACKPINK is the only K-pop artist to have three music videos with over a billion views.
BLACKPINK‘s YouTube channel subscribers also grew rapidly, reaching nearly 52 million.
Meanwhile, BLACKPINK once again made history for K-pop girl groups, placing second on the US Billboard 200 and British Official Albums charts in the first week of its release with its first full album “THE ALBUM “. The title track from the album “Lovesick girls” confirmed its strong global influence by reaching the top of the World’s Top 100 YouTube Song Chart for two consecutive weeks and also placing second in week three of the World’s 50’s. biggest Spotify music streaming platforms.
Journalist: Shawn
Translator: Shawn
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