{"id":321260,"date":"2026-02-28T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:56:08","slug":"blackpinks-new-ep-deadline-nears-1-5-mil-sales-on-1st-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321260\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK&#8217;s new EP &#8216;Deadline&#8217; nears 1.5 mil. sales on 1st day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a94c4ebd-8ce6-43ee-ac50-d4f8e3f5d7be.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 853; width: 100%\" alt=\"BLACKPINK \/ Courtesy of YG Entertainment\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BLACKPINK \/ Courtesy of YG Entertainment<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">BLACKPINK, a major K-pop girl group, saw sales of its third EP, &#8220;Deadline,&#8221; reach nearly 1.5 million on the first day of its release, its agency said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">According to YG Entertainment, sales of the new album came to 1.46 million Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;The record not only marks (BLACKPINK&#8217;s) highest first-day sales but also sets a new high for any K-pop girl group,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The new album marks the group&#8217;s return as a full group for the first time in more than three years amid strong anticipation from fans worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The EP reached No. 1 on iTunes&#8217; Top Albums chart in 32 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The lead track, &#8220;Go,&#8221; ranked eighth on South Korea&#8217;s top music streaming platform, Melon&#8217;s Top 100 chart, as of 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Go&#8221; features powerful sound production and a chant-driven hook, complemented by the prerelease &#8220;Jump,&#8221; the retro hip-hop track &#8220;Me and My,&#8221; the anthemic &#8220;Champion&#8221; and &#8220;Fxxxboy,&#8221; described as a more subtle and emotional track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK \/ Courtesy of YG Entertainment BLACKPINK, a major K-pop girl group, saw sales of its third EP,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-321260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}