Global pop sensation Blackpink have been chosen as Time magazine's 2022 Entertainer of the Year, making the four-woman band the second K-pop artists to earn the title, after BTS in 2020.
Selected by YG Entertainment, a big South Korean record label that screens performers for star quality and trains them intensively, the – Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé – found international stardom quickly after their 2016 debut.
In a Time feature marking the Entertainer of the Year award, the group revisited their journey, from playing at Coachella in 2019 to performing "Pink Venom" at the VMAs earlier this year. Talking about their success – and the pressures that come with it – Jennie said the band perform from the heart.Part of the group's global success comes from their cosmopolitan backgrounds. Singer Rosé, who was born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, called it "a plus" in the studio that they're all from "different cultures."
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