YouTube has officially announced on Friday (Sept. 10) that K-pop superstars BLACKPINK is now the most subscribed artist on the video streaming platform, surpassing former leader Justin Bieber. Their current number of subscribers? A whopping 65.5 million.
“This is unbelievable. It’s a precious moment gifted to us by our BLINKS (fans),” the group’s Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé said in a statement. “We would like to dedicate this honor to all of our fans around the world who have loved and supported us throughout.”
The quartet added, “Our BLINKS contributed a lot to this achievement. Therefore we hope they also enjoy this honor. … We will continue to bring positivity and great energy through our music and videos.”
As the second most subscribed artist on YouTube. BLACKPINK surpassed the 60 million mark in April, behind only Bieber, who currently has 65.1 million subscribers. BTS follows with 57.7 million, then Marshmello with 53.8 million, and Ariana Grande with 49.6 million subscribers to round out the top five.
BLACKPINK first single is out now
BLACKPINK earned more than 9.7 billion views from around the world in just the past year YouTube stated. The global superstars also have four music videos that have each garnered more than 1 billion views: “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du,” “Kill This Love,” “Boombayah,” and “As If It’s Your Last.”
BLACKPINK has a whopping 65.5 million subscribers on YouTube now
This new record for the group comes on the same day that Lisa dropped her debut solo project, Lalisa. She’s the third member of the quartet to release a standalone release. Jennie released the appropriately titled “Solo” in November 2018, while Rosé gave fans -R-, which featured “On the Ground” and “Gone,” in March. Jisoo will be the last member of BLACKPINK to make her solo debut.
While being acknowledged for her amazing dance skills, rap skills, and her beautiful looks, LISA has been showing great charisma in her solo parts while creating perfect harmony with the other members of BLACKPINK. The fans are highly anticipating her solo debut since she will fill up the entire stage with her own charms.
YG hinted, “As the album title ‘LALISA’ suggests, you will feel LISA’s true and natural charms differentiated from her past activities”.
LISA brought out enthusiastic responses from the global fans through a single COMING SOON poster. News on her solo debut was ranked at no. 1 on Twitter’s Worldwide Trend Rankings in an instant on the 23rd, while related hashtags on Weibo has reached 3.3B accumulated views in a single day.
LISA is currently the most followed K-Pop artist on Instagram(57.98M). Her personal YouTube channel ‘Lilifilm’ also has over 8.04M subscribers. BLACKPINK is currently the most subscribed female artist in the world on YouTube, with over 64.3M subscribers.
LISA FIRST SINGLE ALBUM LALISA Online Fan signing event will be held on 2021.09.19 (SUN) 7:30PM ~. As always, thank you so much for love and support!