{"id":31648,"date":"2020-06-06T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T13:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31648"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:37:28","slug":"blackpink-and-lady-gagas-sour-candy-breaks-records-after-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/blackpink-and-lady-gagas-sour-candy-breaks-records-after-release\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK and Lady Gaga\u2019s \u2018Sour Candy\u2019 Breaks Records After Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lady Gaga, BLACKPINK - Sour Candy (Audio)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fnPn6At3v28?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Upon the release on May 28th, BLACKPINK and Lady Gaga\u2019s \u2018Sour Candy\u2019 \u201cshattered\u201d streaming records, according to Forbes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song debuted on Spotify at the sixth spot in the Global streams and 12th in the United States with over 3.67 million and 757,000 streams, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, \u2018Sour Candy\u2019 had reportedly reached the top spot on iTunes in 52 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though it was released without an official music video, the audio-video performed exceptionally on YouTube, reaching over 21.8 million views within its first 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The figures also show that BLACKPINK and Lady Gaga broke the YouTube record for the \u201cbiggest debut\u201d for an all-female collaboration. Before it, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Call Me Angel\u2019 off the Charlie\u2019s Angels soundtrack held the record on the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, on Billboard, on all-genre Digital Song Sales listing the song got #25 spot and on the Billboard\u2019s Dance\/Electronic Songs Chart it earned #3 place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSour Candy\u201d also arrived at #8 on the all-encompassing Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs Chart. That chart accounts for radioactivity in addition to sales and streaming numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the last three years, Blackpink, which consists of members Jennie, Lisa, Ros\u00e9 and Jisoo, has become a global phenomenon. The girl group has been dominating major music charts in South Korea, as well as the US. Some of their mega-hit tracks include Kill This Love, DDU-DU-DDU-DU, BOOMBAYAH, Forever Young, and Don\u2019t Know What To Do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They earned their first Top 40 entry on the Billboard 200 in 2018 with the Square Up EP. DDU-DU-DDU-DU, which was also dropped in 2018, became the girl group\u2019s first Hot 100 entry. It featured art No. 55 on the list and ended up surpassing 1 billion music video views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, Blackpink made even greater leap on the Billboard charts, reaching No. 24 on the Billboard 200 with their Kill this Love EP and No. 41 on the Hot 100 with the title track.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One week after the release of Kill this Love, Blackpink made their U.S. live debut with a greatly received Coachella set, solidifying their status as global superstars.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon the release on May 28th, BLACKPINK and Lady Gaga\u2019s \u2018Sour Candy\u2019 \u201cshattered\u201d streaming records, according to Forbes.\u00a0 The song debuted on Spotify at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31653,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31648\/revisions\/31653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}