Over the final 12 months and alter, the 4 members of BLACKPINK have dominated the worldwide charts, every individually reaching the highest 5 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. All of it led to the group’s reunion, as “Bounce,” the act’s first single in practically three years, debuts atop each lists (dated July 26) and expands the pop stars’ file résumés.
“Bounce” is BLACKPINK’s fourth track to crown the World Excl. U.S. chart, following “Lovesick Ladies” in 2020, and inside weeks of each other in 2022, “Pink Venom” and “Shut Down.” Bested solely by BTS’ seven, it makes BLACKPINK the woman-fronted act with probably the most No. 1s within the chart’s five-year historical past, breaking out of a tie with Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift. Additional, it’s the eighth chart-topper within the larger BLACKPINK universe, together with entries by its members as soloists.
ROSÉ first acquired there with “On the Floor” in 2021, which debuted on high. JENNIE hit No. 1 with “You & Me” in 2023. LISA adopted in 2024 with “Rockstar.” And ROSÉ scored a second – and record-breaking – chart-topper along with her Bruno Mars collab “APT.,” which led for 19 weeks – greater than every other track so far. That implies that BLACKPINK and/or one in every of its members have topped the chart annually since its 2020 inception.
In its first week of launch (ending July 17), “Bounce” drew 123 million streams and bought 14,000 downloads worldwide, in keeping with Luminate. That’s the best weekly international streaming rely since Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars pulled in 128.6 million with “Die With A Smile” in February.
“Bounce” did most of its enterprise outdoors america, the place consumption accounted for 89% of its streams (109.9 million) and 75% of its gross sales (11,000). It’s the largest non-U.S. streaming rely since January when BLACKPINK’s personal ROSÉ topped 111 million with “APT.”
The final duo or group to publish a much bigger quantity, moreover WHAM!’s perennial “Final Christmas” (from 1984), was BLACKPINK itself, with 139.9 million non-U.S. streams for the debut of “Shut Down” in 2022. Earlier than that? BLACKPINK once more, a month prior, with “Pink Venom” (198.1 million).
Relationship to the inaugural World Excl. U.S. listing, solely 19 songs have logged greater than 100 million weekly streams outdoors of the U.S. Seven of them are by BLACKPINK or one in every of its members, together with JISOO’s No. 2-peaking “Flower” (103.3 million, week ending April 6, 2023).