{"id":316151,"date":"2026-03-06T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:09:08","slug":"blackpink-sets-first-week-sales-record-for-k-pop-girl-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316151\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK sets first-week sales record for K-pop girl group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release sold more than 177,000 copies in the week following its launch last Friday, YG Entertainment said, citing data from local sales tracker Hanteo Chart.<\/p>\n<p>The figure marks the highest first-week sales for an album released by a K-pop girl group, registering 230,000 units more than its previous album, &#8220;Born Pink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Within the K-pop industry, first-week sales figures serve as a critical metric for gauging an artist&#8217;s popularity and the overall size of its fandom.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting its immediate commercial impact, &#8220;Deadline&#8221; surged to the top of Hanteo&#8217;s monthly albums chart for February just 2 1\/2 days after its release, with 1,468,894 copies, according to a chart update released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new album has also topped iTunes albums charts across 38 countries and regions since its debut.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it was reported that Rose of BLACKPINK <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/news\/rose-of-blackpink-wins-brit-award-070d7e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">had won<\/a> a Brit Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The release sold more than 177,000 copies in the week following its launch last Friday, YG Entertainment said,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-316151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}