INDIO, CA – APRIL 12: (EDITORS NOTE: Retransmission with alternate crop.) (L-R) Jennie Kim, Rosé, … [+]
2021 has been a busy year for the members of the band Blackpink, if not for the girl group itself. Two of the four vocalists that make up the act, Lisa and Rosé, have launched solo careers in the past few months, both to acclaim and massive chart success all around the world. While fans are largely focused on the activities of the individuals who make up the quartet, that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped buying and listening to Blackpink’s music, and now one of their sets has reached a special milestone on a very familiar Billboard chart.
On this week’s edition of the World Album chart, Blackpink’s The Album slips one rung to No. 9, but it’s the length of time the title has been present on the tally that’s really important. The set, the band’s first full-length, has now found space on the ranking for 52 weeks, or a full year.
The Album is Blackpink’s first release to spend a full year on the World Albums chart, and it reaches the milestone without having ever disappeared from the ranking. The title was released in October 2020, and since then, fans in America have been consuming the project non-stop.
Blackpink was already one of the biggest South Korean girl groups in the world by the time The Album arrived, and the project took them to new heights in dozens of territories, including the U.S. The set easily conquered the World Albums chart, becoming their third leader on the tally. It also launched in the runner-up rung on the Billboard 200 ranking, and it still stands as the highest-charting effort by an all-female K-pop act and one of the best-performing titles of all time by a South Korean musical act.
The Album recently passed Blackpink’s own Kill This Love EP as their longest-charting effort on the World Albums ranking. That set has thus far racked up 49 frames somewhere on the list, and that sum could improve in the future, perhaps even making it another year-long winner.
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