Rose of Blackpink signed with Atlantic Records for her upcoming solo music, her agency The Black Label said Friday. The Warner Music affiliate is home to several artists including Bruno Mars, Cold Play and Ed Sheeran. To celebrate her deal, the American label sent her a huge bouquet of red roses with a note saying: “Welcome to the family!” She rolled out the solo single “R” in March 2021 as the second member of the group to have a solo album.
The album sold over 280,000 copies on its release day, surpassing the first-week sales record for a K-pop female soloist in one day. The main track “On The Ground” hit Billboard’s Hot 100 at No. 70, the highest spot for a K-pop female singer at the time, while the accompanying music video logged 41.
6 million views on YouTube in one day and earned the Guinness World Record for most viewed music video in 24 hours by a solo K-pop artist. BTS Jungkook goes platinum in Japan with ‘Seven’ Jungkook of BTS was certified platinum with his solo single “Seven (feat. Latto) - Explicit Ver.
,” the Recording Industry Association of Japan announced Friday. This is the third time the artist earned the certification in streaming on his own, after the “Clean” version of the song and “Euphoria,” from the 2018 compilation album “Love Yourself: Answer.’” Meanwhile, both “Seven” and “Standing Next To You” amassed 900 million streams on Spotify, making his first solo album “Golden” the first-ever album from an Asi.