Lisa "LALISA" Dance Practice, Rosé at the Met Gala & Roundup News!
Click to viewLisa’s ‘LALISA’ officially scores the highest first week sales by a female artist on Hanteo, with 736,221 copies sold. She joins Baekhyun as the only soloists to sell more than 700,000 copies on the first week.
The rapper-dancer expressed an interest in joining a social program led by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange in Buriram Province, where she was born, and launched an online account to help collect donations, according to the foundation.
"I would like (children) to be able to play freely in a better educational environment and follow their dreams without constraints," she was quoted as saying. "I want to encourage and support the precious dreams of many children."
The program, which is a partnership between the foundation and BLACKPINK's label YG Entertainment, will this year seek to build a 160 square meter cultural compound at Non Suwan Phitthayakhom School in Buriram, among other things.
The foundation said it also plans to provide computers, projectors and other multimedia equipment to the school and establish a K-pop dance academy staffed by local instructors.
The school has previously run after-school traditional dance classes but struggled to maintain them due to poor classroom conditions.
Buriram Province features in the music video for Lisa's first solo single "Lalisa," which dropped last week, along with other elements of Thai culture.
K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has become the world's No. 1 artist in terms of number of subscribers on YouTube, the band's label said Friday.
The quartet's YouTube channel counted more than 65.2 million subscribers as of 2:42 p.m. (Korean time), dethroning Canadian singer Justin Bieber, according to YG Entertainment.
"It's unbelievable. This is a miraculous moment made possible by Blink," BLACKPINK was quoted as saying by the label, referring to the group's fan club. "We will continue to be artists who give positive energy through good music and video."
Sources: BLACKPINK YouTube, Blackpink Charts Twitter, Yonhap News Agency 1 | 2, VOGUE YouTube
Edit: I added the GRWM Vogue video with Rosé!