'Show! Music Core' BLACKPINK ranks 1st, achieves 5 crowns... "Long-awaited comeback... Thanks to fans"

Photo by MBC, capture from the broadcast screen of 'Show! Music Core'

[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Hee-eun Park] The group BLACKPINK achieved a grand slam by winning first place on 'Music Core'.

On the broadcast of MBC's 'Show! Music Core' on the 11th, the nominees for first place were BLACKPINK's "How You Like That," Sunmi's "Borabit Bam," and Hwasa's "Maria." BLACKPINK took home the trophy by ranking first place in the second week of July with "How You Like That."

Accordingly, BLACKPINK set a record of five crowns with "How You Like That," released on the 26th of last month, by winning first place on MBC Every1's 'Show Champion,' SBS's 'Inkigayo,' Mnet's 'M Countdown,' KBS 2TV's 'Music Bank,' and 'Music Core.'

On this day, Jennie expressed her gratitude in her acceptance speech, saying, "Thank you to Teddy oppa for writing such a great song." She also said to the fan club, "BLINK, we got first place. This award is for BLINK."

Jisoo said, "It's been a while since our comeback, and being loved like this is all thanks to BLINK," expressing her gratitude to the fans.

BLACKPINK's "How You Like That" is a hip-hop song that conveys BLACKPINK's message of "not yielding to any dark situation and soaring high forward."

On this day’s 'Music Core,' performers included Red Velvet - Irene & Seulgi, SF9, Chungha, Solji, Yoo Seung-woo, BLACKPINK, Sunmi, Stray Kids, Lee Jin-hyuk, WOODZ (Cho Seung-youn), Golden Child, AB6IX, VERIVERY, DONGKIZ I:KAN, ELAST, Weeekly, Kim Soo-chan, and VOISPER.