BLACKPINK's 'Pink Venom' stays on Billboard single chart for 2 consecutive weeks

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SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- BLACKPINK's pre-released song "Pink Venom" stayed on Billboard's main single Hot 100 chart for two weeks in a row.

According to the latest chart on Thursday, this song ranked 53rd on Hot 100 chart, 31 places down from the previous week.

"Pink Venom" is a hip-hop genre song with BLACKPINK's unique charisma. It starts with a traditional geomungo sound and the fierce rap and piercing vocals convey the charm of all four members.

The song secured its second consecutive No.1 on two global charts, Global 200 and Global (excluding the US) charts, for this week to become the first female K-pop act to do so.

The K-pop quartet's second full-length album, "Born Pink," will drop on Sept. 16. "Pink Venom," a prereleased single from the upcoming album gained global popularity and attention is drawn to how successful full album will be.

Girl group TWICE ranked 3rd on the Billboard main album Billboard 200 chart with their 11th mini album "BETWEEN 1&2" released on Aug. 26.

TWICE topped Artist 100 chart and broke their best record, 10th place. They also topped the Top Album Sales, Top Current Album Sales, and World Album charts.

The title song 'Talk that Talk' ranked 10th on Global (excluding the US), 18th on Global 200, and 4th on World Digital Song Sales.

Boy group ENHYPEN's 3rd mini album "MANIFESTO: DAY 1" stayed on the Billboard 200 chart atfor 5 weeks in a row, ranking 144. It also placed 4th on World Album, 7th on Top Current Album Sales, and 7th on Top Album Sales charts.

NewJeans also made other Billboard charts for five consecutive weeks.

Their debut songs "Hype Boy" and "Attention" placedd 34th and 37th respectively on Global (excluding the US) and 55th and 58th on Global 200.

Their debut album "New Jeans" ranked 12th on both the Hitseekers Album and World Album charts.

Le Sserafim's debut song "FEARLESS" succeeded in charting for 18 weeks in a row by placing No.178 on the Global (excluding the US) chart, 18 places down from the previous week.

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Jiwon Woo.)

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