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Evening Standard
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Jochan Embley

Blackpink - Born Pink review: Forgettable fodder for the K-Pop cannons

If BTS, the world’s biggest boy band, are slowing things down to focus on solo projects, then the world’s biggest girl band, fellow K-Pop giants Blackpink, are only striding onwards.

The four-piece group — made up of members Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa — have all but cemented the success of this, their second studio album, before it’s even been released. It raced past two-million pre-orders last month, with studio bosses at YG Entertainment expecting to have hit three million by today (by comparison, Ed Sheeran’s last album sold 1.29m copies globally).

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