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BLACKPINK
Members
4
Fandom
BLINK
Four women who weaponised maximalist pop into the world's biggest girl-group export.
- Maximalist
- Girl-crush
- Fashion-coded
- EDM drops
- Global
LINEUP
Members
MILESTONES
Records & firsts
Highest-grossing concert tour by a female group
Born Pink World Tour, $330 million (2022–23), passing the Spice Girls.
First Asian act to headline Coachella
April 2023; in 2019 they were the first female K-pop group to play the festival.
First album by a female Korean act to top the Billboard 200
Born Pink, 2022 — the first by any female group since 2008.
Most-subscribed music act on YouTube
The first to pass 100 million subscribers, in 2026.
First girl group to top the Billboard Global 200
"Pink Venom", 2022; "Jump" became their third number one in 2025.
Highest first-day and first-week sales for a K-pop girl group
Deadline EP, 2026 — 1.46 million on day one and 1.77 million in its first week on Hanteo.
DID YOU KNOW
Trivia & lore
The name is meant to hold two contrasting sides of the group's musical persona.
BLINK, the fandom name, is a portmanteau of BLACK and PINK, announced on January 17, 2017.
YG originally planned a nine-member group; the four-member lineup was confirmed on June 29, 2016.
Lisa was the only one of 4,000 applicants to pass YG's 2010 audition in Thailand and became the label's first foreign trainee in 2011.
All four members renewed with YG for group work in December 2023 but run their solo careers elsewhere — three with their own agencies, Rosé with The Black Label.
DISCOGRAPHY
Signature tracks
TIMELINE
The journey
ORIGIN
YG trainee years
2010 — 2016
YG began holding worldwide auditions for a new girl group in 2010, a year after launching 2NE1, and spent six years narrowing the plan from nine members to four. The lineup and name were confirmed on June 29, 2016, weeks before debut.
DEBUT
Square Up & debut run
2016 — 2018
Debuted with the Square series and a girl-crush template — half hip-hop swagger, half festival drop. Ddu-Du Ddu-Du made them the highest-charting K-pop girl group in the US to that point and set the visual-heavy formula every rival would copy.
Anchor track: Ddu-Du Ddu-Du
GLOBAL
The Album & Coachella
2019 — 2021
Kill This Love and their first full-length, The Album, took them global; in April 2019 they became the first female K-pop group to play Coachella. Netflix's Light Up the Sky documentary cemented the four as global pop celebrities, not just chart entrants.
Anchor track: Kill This Love
STADIUM
Born Pink & solo wave
2022 — 2024
Born Pink became the first album by a female Korean act to top the Billboard 200, and its world tour grossed $330 million — the highest-grossing tour ever by a female group. In 2023 they headlined Coachella, the first Asian act to do so, then re-signed with YG for the group while each member took solo work elsewhere.
Anchor track: Pink Venom
RETURN
Deadline & return
2025
The Deadline World Tour opened at Goyang Stadium in July 2025 with the debut of "Jump", their third Billboard Global 200 number one, and took them to Wembley as the first K-pop girl group to play it. The Deadline EP followed in February 2026 with the highest first-day and first-week sales of any K-pop girl group.
Anchor track: Jump
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