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'Blackpink' is a Korean girl group
formed by 'YG Entertainment', consisting of members 'Jisoo', 'Jennie', 'Rosé',
and 'Lisa'. The group debuted in August 2016 with their single album
"Square One", which featured "Whistle" and "Boombayah".
Referred to as the "biggest girl
group in the world", 'Blackpink' is the most successful Korean girl group
internationally.
They are the highest-charting female
Korean act on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 13 with "Ice
Cream" (2020), and on the Billboard 200, peaking at number one with their
second studio album Born Pink (2022), which is the best-selling album of all
time by a female act in Korea and the first to sell over two million copies.
'Jennie' was the first group member
revealed, on June 1, 2016. She joined 'YG Entertainment' as a trainee in 2010
after moving back to Korea from New Zealand.
'Lisa' was revealed as the new girl
group's second member on June 8, 2016. She was the only individual among 4,000
applicants to pass the 2010 'YG Entertainment' audition in her native country
Thailand and became the first foreign trainee in 2011.
'Jisoo' was revealed as the new
group's third member on June 15, 2016. She joined 'YG Entertainment' as a
trainee in July 2011.
'Rosé' was the final member to be
revealed, on June 22, 2016. She ranked first among 700 applicants in the 2012
'YG Entertainment' audition in Australia, after which she signed a trainee
contract and moved to Seoul to begin training.
'YG Entertainment' confirmed that the
new girl group would have four members instead of the originally planned nine
members and revealed its official name as Blackpink.
