BLACKPINK

BLACKPINK‎ (stylized as BLΛƆKPIИK) is a kpop girl group comprised of four members: Jennie Kim, Lalisa Manoban, Rosé Park, and Kim Jisoo. It's among the most popular K-pop groups, particularly in the Western fandom, and is known for having long hiatuses between releases. The group has won several awards, including multiple Guinness World Records.BLACKPINK’s return sets new YouTube records with How You Like That. Posted 30 June 2020. Accessed 13 Sept 2022.
==History==
Created by YG Entertainment after holding worldwide tryouts for preteen to teenage girls to form a girl group after the successful launch of 2NE1, BLACKPINK's debut was explosive. They were the first girl group to debut with YG in seven years and their first two songs, "Boombayah" and "Whistle," simultaneously held the #1 and #2 on the Billboard World Digital Songs Sales chart after release.Blackpink’s Major Debut: New K-Pop Girl Group Lands No. 1 & 2 on World Digital Songs Chart. Posted 16 Aug 2016. Accessed 12 Sept 2022. This achievement had only been achieved by Psy and Big Bang from YG before BLACKPINK. The group consists of four members, all of whom were selected after years of rigorous competition:
* Jisoo is the visual of the group.
* Jennie is the leader of the group.
* Rosé is the "goddess" of the group.
* Lisa is the maknae of the group.
The group was created with the idea that the girls would showcase two different sides: their "black" side, representing the more mature and sexy aspects of the group, and their "pink" side, representing their more cute and colorful side. Like many K-pop artists, each of the girls has an additional career as a model and actress. Unlike many artists, however, BLACKPINK seems to be designed with the concept of scarcity. The group has gone through multiple periods where they released very little music, to the point where the group has only released one full album since their debut in 2016The group also released "Blackpink in Your Area" in 2018, which was a compilation album consisting of every song released by the group until that point. with the second album scheduled to release in September 2022. This is unusual for a K-pop group as, for comparison, TWICE released three Korean and four Japanese albums in the same timeframe and was formed around the same time as BLACKPINK.
==Fandom==
Like many K-pop groups, BLACKPINK has an official name for their fandom. Fans are known as BLINKS and the official fan colors are, of course, black and pink. While all variations of ships within the group are popular, jenlisa (Jennie/Lisa) and chaelisaRosé's real name is Park Chaeyoung. (Rosé/Lisa). jensoo (Jennie/Jinsoo) and chaennie (Rosé/Jennie) are also popular. Additionally, because of BLACKPINK's immense popularity within the K-pop fandom, the members often show up in BTS fic as side characters. This is evidenced by the fact that on AO3, the seventh most popular pairing in the BLACKPINK fandom is Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung.BLACKPINK tag on AO3. Accessed 12 Sept 2022. There is heated rivalry between fans of the two groups, to the point some fans feel you cannot support both; Armyblink would beg to differ.
===Hiatus Controversy===
Due to the group's scattered releases, much of the discussion among fandom is comparing BLACKPINK's long waits between releases to the mandatory military service that male idol groups go through.Fans talk about how BLACKPINK's hiatus is basically the same length as a male idol's military service. Posted 29 Mar 2022. Accessed 12 Sept 2022. Many fans were also dissatisfied with the announcement for the band's second album, given the almost two year wait between new content for the group:
These same fans were also disappointed that the album's announcement was for an eight song album, which only barely qualified it as a full length album rather than a mini album in Korea. Several fans also complained about the fact that other bands under YG got albums with longer tracklists and more frequent releases, although in general YG artists never release very many albums. For example, Big Bang only ever released three albums in their 16 year long career.
==Fanworks==
===Fanart===
*블랙핑크 by to_rip
* by aikimei
* by your--huckleberry
* by tonirenea-art
* by stokotki
* by taedelight
* by moritajung
* by letoscrawls
===Fanfiction===
*Queen B by Pirate_Pisces
*cards we've been dealt by jrjkim 
==External Links==
* BLΛƆKPIИK on Wattpad
* BLΛƆKPIИK on AO3
* BLΛƆKPIИK on AsianFanfics
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