Blackpink seeks to be crowned with "Born pink", their second studio album

The South Korean band Blackpink today released its second studio album, "Born pink", a work with which the group hopes to definitively crown itself as the most important female group in the history of K-Pop.

The album is made up of eight cuts, which include the main single, "Shut down", and "Pink venom", which was pre-released on August 19, the date from which it has managed to lead sales in the iTunes stores of 75 countries and add 200 million views of his video clip on the YouTube platform.

The video for "Shut down", a hip-hop song that uses a "sample" of a piece by Niccolo Paganini, pays homage to the band's previous singles, and within an hour and a half of being published on YouTube today it had almost 8.5 million views.

"Born Pink" is set to become the first album by a South Korean girl band to exceed two million copies sold, as pre-orders have already surpassed that figure, according to their management agency YG Entertainment.

In turn, after "The album", Blackpink's first studio work, reached number two on the Billboard 200 list in 2020, there is expectation about the possibility that the group formed by Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé become the first female band from the Asian country to crown it.

So far only three K-Pop groups, all male, hold that honor.

In October, Blackpink begins a tour that will start in Seoul and that will later take the group to six American cities (Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Newark, Los Angeles) and one Canadian (Hamilton), before starting the European leg of the tour. , which in addition to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen and Cologne, includes a recital on December 5 at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.

The tour will continue through the Middle East, Asia and Oceania, and is expected to attract a total of more than 1.5 million attendees.