On September 19, 2022, Soompi reported that BLACKPINK recently made another impressive feat! A few days ago, on September 16, 2022 at 1 p.m. KST, the girl group officially released a new studio album titled “ BORN PINK ” with the title track “ Shut Down .” Soon after their release, both the album "BORN PINK" and the song "Shut Down" immediately dominated iTunes charts in many countries around the world.
According to YG Entertainment, the album "BORN PINK" has managed to rank No. 1 on the iTunes Top Albums chart in 54 different countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the song "Shut Down" has also been ranked No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart in 43 different countries around the world.
And as if these achievements weren't enough, today "Shut Down" has successfully soared to the top of the No. 1 Daily Top Songs Global Spotify chart . "Shut Down" is BLACKPINK's second song to top the chart after "Pink Venom" last month. With this, BLACKPINK has officially become the first K-pop artist to successfully dominate Spotify's Daily Top Songs Global chart with two songs at once.
Overall, “Shut Down” was streamed on Spotify more than 6.6 million times on its first day of release. The country that accounts for the largest portion of Spotify streaming for BLACKPINK is the United States with a total of 1,037,386 streams, followed by other countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Vietnam, Mexico, Thailand, and Brazil. This proves the global influence of the group.
As additional information, "Shut Down" itself is a hip-hop song whose lyrics were written by Park, Danny Chung and Vince. This song tells about how BLACKPINK members silence their haters. Erica Gonzales of Mahalah Elle praised "Shut Down" as a very interesting diss track because it was composed in the key of C Major with a tempo of 110 beats per minute. Congratulations to BLACKPINK on their impressive achievement with the song "Shut Down"!
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