Bloomberg released its ŌĆ£Pop Star Power RankingsŌĆØ on its official website on November 10 (local time). According to the article, BLACKPINK has beat out global pop stars such as Pop Smoke, Cardi B, Justin Bieber, Juice WRLD and Drake to take the top spot. According to Bloomberg, these are the 6 criteria they use to rank the worldŌĆÖs most influential pop stars: ŌĆ£Trailing three-month gross revenues from live shows,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£Trailing 30-day ticket sales for live shows,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£Trailing four-week album sales,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£Trailing four-week digital song streams,ŌĆØ ŌĆ£Trailing 30-day total interactions on InstagramŌĆØ and ŌĆ£Trailing four-week YouTube views.ŌĆØ Bloomberg introduces BLACKPINK as ŌĆ£the biggest music act in the worldŌĆØ and wrote, ŌĆ£Alongside the boy group BTS, Blackpink has achieved a level of global popularity unprecedented in the history of music.ŌĆØ They also listed the groupŌĆÖs achievements, saying, ŌĆ£Blackpink has been the most popular act on YouTube for the past couple of months, generating more than 1 billion views in October alone. The group was also the second most popular act on Spotify. While their album failed to debut at #1 in the U.S., it was still one of the 10 best-sellers in the country for the month.ŌĆØ Bloomberg also reported that BLACKPINKŌĆÖs ability to speak English, Thai, Korean, Mandarin and Japanese was one of the keys to their global popularity. They even wrote, ŌĆ£The success of BTS and Blackpink reminds entertainment executive Van Toffler of the rise of NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys in the late 1990s and early 2000s.ŌĆØ Since BloombergŌĆÖs announcement, BLINKs have been posting congratulatory messages on social media.
ŌĆö STAN-BLACKPINK! (@Ot4Alwaysss) November 10, 2020
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