Seoul, Sep 16 (EFE).- South Korean group Blackpink today released their second studio album, “Born pink”, a work with which the group hopes to definitively crown itself as the most important girl group in the world. history of K-Pop. .

The album is made up of eight tracks, including the lead single, “Shut down”, and “Pink venom”, which was pre-released on August 19, when it managed to lead sales in stores. iTunes from 75 countries and add 200 million views of its music video on YouTube platform.

The video for ‘Shut down,’ a hip-hop song that uses a ‘sample’ of a Niccolo Paganini track, pays homage to the band’s previous singles, and less than an hour and a half after it was posted on YouTube today. today, it has added almost 8.5 million views.

“Born Pink” is set to become the first album by a South Korean girl group to surpass two million copies sold, as pre-orders have already surpassed that number, according to their management agency YG Entertainment.

In turn, after “The album”, Blackpink’s first studio work, reached number two on the Billboard 200 in 2020, the group formed by Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé is expected to become the first female group of the Asian country to crown it.

So far, only three K-Pop groups, all male, hold this honor.

In October, Blackpink begins a tour which will begin in Seoul and which will later take the group to six American cities (Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Newark, Los Angeles) and a Canadian one (Hamilton), before starting the stage European tour. , which in addition to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen and Cologne, includes a recital on December 5 at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.

The tour will continue across the Middle East, Asia and Oceania and is expected to attract a total of over 1.5 million attendees.