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Blackpink’s Rosé Heals a Broken Heart


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Blackpink member Rosé has released the video for her solo single, “Gone,” which she first shared last month.

The clip shows the South Korean singer mourning the loss of a relationship in an elaborately decorated old house. In various scenes, Rosé poses with gorgeous blue flowers, throws feathery pillows around the room in frustration, and cries against a bathtub. The video’s happier moments are interspersed with sadder scenes, where the house’s furniture is covered in tarp and Rosé is throwing out old picture frames.

“Gone” is featured on Rosé’s debut solo project  R , which also includes the track “On the Ground.” In an interview for Rolling Stone ‘s The First Time , she described how she “hadn’t heard a song like that before” when her producer showed her the backing track for “On the Ground.”

“I didn’t expect to hear a song like that because every song that we get or begin with doesn’t have these kinds of messages in it. For us, it was kind of like, I think this song kinda speaks our mind.”

From Publisher: Rolling Stone

Blackpink’s Debut Album Is The First By A Korean Girl Group To Spend Half A Year On The Billboard

Even before they released an album, Blackpink worked their way up to the top, establishing themselves as not only one of the most exciting musical acts to emerge from South Korea, but one of the most popular and bestselling girl groups in the world. When the time finally did come to drop a complete project, the band made history on charts seemingly everywhere, and now, months after it first arrived, the set is still going strong in the largest music market in the world.

This week, Blackpink’s debut full-length The Album falls 20 spaces on the Billboard 200, dipping from No. 160 to No. 180.

The longest-charting albums by any South Korean musical act (which in this specific instance just means BTS) are Love Yourself: Answer (98 weeks), Map of the Soul: 7 (58 weeks), Love Yourself: Her (44 weeks) and Map of the Soul: Persona (35 weeks).

The Album narrowly missed out on becoming a leader when it debuted last fall, as it opened at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. That still makes it by far the highest-charting effort by a South Korean girl group, and it gave the quartet their third placement on the tally, which still stands as the most among all-female vocal troupes from the Asian country.

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