Blackpink - New Jeans, the girl group that topped the Billboard 200 for 15 year.
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[The Fact - Reporter Jeong Byeong Geun] 3 songs simultaneously entered the US Billboard 200 chart, New Jeans has set another milestone after 1 year of debut.
According to the latest chart of Billboard (US) released on August 2 (US time), New's mini-album vol.2 'Get Up' has climbed to No.1 Billboard 200. Three title songs 'Super Shy' ', 'ETA', and 'Cool With You' ranked at number 48, 81, and 93 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.
Billboard said, "New Jeans' mini album vol.2 Get Up has sold 126,500 copies in the US (total from July 21 to July 27)", "In the past 15 years, only 2 girl groups have occupied the No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart are Blackpink and New Jeans".
In addition, Billboard also noticed two more new songs entering the chart in addition to New Jeans' "Super Shy" - the group once again reached the highest record at number 48 on the Hot 100 chart. New Jeans is the group The first K-pop girl to have 3 songs included in the Hot 100. And only BTS is the only artist to achieve such a feat in recent times among K-pop boy and girl groups.
"New Jeans" engraved their names on two of Billboard's main charts. It's different from the form of fame that existing K-pop stars have seen. They featured first on the Hot 100 "Billboard" chart. New Jeans uploaded the b-side songs "Ditto" and "OMG" from the single album released in January to the Hot 100. At that time, New Jeans was already on the Hot 100. Released 6 months ago.
This Billboard 200 number one position of New Jeans can be considered as an expansion of the global fandom based on public popularity. In terms of validating New Jeans' sustainable future, that makes a lot of sense.
New Jeans will perform on the stage of the major American music festival "Lolapaluza Chicago" at 5 pm on the 3rd (7 am on the 4th KST). New Jeans is the first K-pop girl group to step onto this stage. This stage will be broadcast live worldwide through Weverse Live, YouTube channels (outside the US) and Hulu (USA).
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