BLACKPINK's 'Shut Down' tops Spotify's global chart for 2nd consecutive day
Korean girl group BLACKPINK performs onstage during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Aug. 28. AFP-Yonhap
K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has topped world's largest music streaming service Spotify's Global Top 50 chart with its latest single, "Shut Down," for two days in a row, the group's agency said Monday.
The main track off the group's second full-length album, "Born Pink," bagged its second consecutive No. 1 on the global chart, garnering 6.26 million streams the previous day, YG Entertainment said.
Previously, "Pink Venom," a track unveiled about a month prior to the album's release, stayed atop the chart for three days straight, making BLACKPINK the only K-pop group or singer to chart for more than a day.
Aside from the main track, all of the album's songs, including "Pink Venom," "Typa Girl," "Hard to Love" and "Yeah Yeah Yeah," were in the top 40.
The eight-track album surpassed 1 million copies in sales on the day of its release Friday for the first time as a K-pop girl group album.
In October, the quartet will begin a world tour that will draw about 1.5 million fans around the world in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. (Yonhap)