Everywhere they’ve been this year, Blackpink have made history. After becoming the first K- pop act to headline Coachella back in April, the four-piece also became the first band in the genre to top the bill at a British festival on Sunday night in Hyde Park.
Though K-pop’s sales and popularity in the UK and US haven’t been in doubt for a long time, it’s only with Blackpink’s summer so far that the genre’s full integration into the mainstream western music industry, especially in its festival line-ups, can no longer be questioned.
