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BLACKPINK’s ‘Born Pink’ tour becomes the highest-grossing girl group tour.
BLACKPINK has surpassed The Spice Girl’s 2019 ‘Spice World’ tour in ticket sales.
BLACKPINK’s ‘Born Pink’ tour has broken the record for the highest-grossing tour by a girl group, having grossed $100 million with 29 dates still to go, according to the American box score tracker Touring Data.
The K-pop group has reportedly also surpassed the Spice Girl’s 2019 ‘Spice World’ tour, which grossed $78.2M.
Behind the Spice Girls is TLC’s ‘FanMail Tour’ in 1999, which earned $$72.8M, and Destiny’s Child’s final tour ‘Destiny Fulfilled... and Lovin’ It Tour’ in 2005, which grossed $70M.
The Spice Girl’s 1998 ‘Spiceworld Tour’ earned $60M in ticket sales.
The biggest K-pop girl group world tour
‘Born Pink’ is the biggest world tour ever put on for a female K-pop group, and has been projected to receive over 1.5 million fans.
The tour began in Seoul, South Korea last October, and from there they have performed 26 shows in 2022 alone, with a total audience of 366,248 people.
The history of BLACKPINK
BLACKPINK consists of four members, Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa. The group began releasing music in 2016, after spending years as trainees at YG Entertainment, who were looking to create a new girl group after their success with 2NE1.
Jennie was the first member confirmed in 2016, followed by Lisa, who was also the first foreigner to join YG, after successfully passing the YG auditions in her native Thailand.
Soon after, Jisoo and Rosé were confirmed as the final members. The group’s name was revealed as Blackpink, according to YG meaning “pretty isn’t everything” and that “they are a team that encompasses not only beauty but also great talent.”
The group then released their debut single album ‘Square One’, which consisted of the songs ‘Whistle’ and ‘Boombayah’.
Since then, the group has enjoyed the success of their albums ‘The Album’ released in 2020, with the hit single ‘How You Like That’ and ‘Born Pink’, with the lead single ‘Shut Down’, released in 2022.
At the 2023 Coachella Music Festival, BLACKPINK became the first female Korean act to headline the festival and the second POC female act to headline after Beyoncé.