The Album (Blackpink album)
The Album is the debut Korean-language studio album by South Korean girl group Blackpink, released on October 2, 2020. It is the group’s first full-length work since their debut in 2016. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 110,000 units moved, and is the highest-charting female Korean album. It also opened inside the top ten in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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The Album is the debut Korean-language studio album by South Korean girl group Blackpink, released on October 2, 2020. It is the group’s first full-length work since their debut in 2016. The Album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 110,000 units moved, and is the highest-charting female Korean album. It also opened inside the top ten in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The album received generally favourable reviews from music critics, who commended Blackpinky’s vocal ability and stylistic variety. It received nominations for Album of the Year at the 2020 Melon Music Awards and the 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards, with its single \”How You Like That\” winning Best Female Dance Award at both. To promote the album, the group is set to headline a virtual pay-per-view concert, titled ‘The Show’, on January 31, 2021. The group will also release a new collaboration single with Selena Gomez and Cardi B, set to be released in August and September, respectively. They also announced a live event to take place on October 1, 2020, to celebrate the release of the album and to promote their new reality show, 24365 with Black pink. The live event will take place in Seoul, South Korea, and will feature performances from the group, as well as a special guest, American singer-songwriter Selena Gomez.
It will also feature a live performance from American DJ Zach Sang Sang. The band will also be releasing a new single with a then-unconfirmed artist in August. The single will be called ‘Ice Cream’ and will be released on August 21, 2020 and on August 27, 2020 respectively. On August 12, it was revealed that the title of the collaboration would be “Ice Cream” and that it would be released as a single on September 27. On September 27, the band announced that two songs on the album would be collaborations with American artists Teddy, Tommy Brown, R. Tee, Steven Franks and 24, including ‘Bet You Wanna’ and ‘Lovesick Girls’ The album was supported by three singles in total, two of which were pre-released and became top forty hits on the Billboard Hot 100. It was later certified as Million for over 1 million shipments in Korea by the Korea Music Content Association. It became the best selling album by a girl group in the chart’s history, and the highest charting album by an all-female group since Danity Kane’s Welcome to the Dollhouse. It has also been nominated for several awards, including Best Album at the Mnet Asia Awards and Best Female Artist at the Melon Asia Music Awards. In November 2020, The Album reached number one in New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea. The song \”Ice Cream\” peaked at number thirteen to become Blackpinking’s highest- charting song in the United States.
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