Global pop sensation Blackpink have been chosen as Time magazine’s 2022 Entertainer of the Year
, making the four-woman band the second K-pop artists to earn the title, after BTS in 2020. Selected by YG Entertainment, a big South Korean record label that screens performers for star quality and trains them intensively, the quartet – Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé – found international stardom quickly after their 2016 debut. Their first LP, “The Album,” sold more than one million copies in less than a month after its 2020 release.
“We’re very normal girls, at the end of the day.” Talking about their success – and the pressures that come with it – Jennie said the band perform from the heart. “If we consider this in the business way, we wouldn’t be able to do this,” she said. Part of the group’s global success comes from their cosmopolitan backgrounds. Singer Rosé, who was born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, called it “a plus” in the studio that they’re all from “different cultures.
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