Lisa (BLACKPINK) was harmed by fans and lost all her reputation, but still has more privileges than her sisters

Despite achieving great success with her two new songs, ROCKSTAR and New Woman, Lisa has also faced a lot of controversy and scandal. The most recent is the digital music fraud scandal.

Recently, Lisa released the single "New Woman", in collaboration with Spanish singer Rosalía, causing a stir in the music industry. After ROCKSTAR, "New Woman" is the second song the female idol has released under the new company LLOUD, included in the album expected to be released later this year.

The continuous release of English music and collaborations with influential names like Rosalía further demonstrate the international direction that BLACKPINK's youngest member is pursuing. The song has a strong feminist message, combining Hip-hop and Latin colors "branded" with the Spanish rose.

Notably, similar to ROCKSTAR, Lisa's new song is also completely absent from digital music charts in Korea. Meanwhile, her international achievements have been raised with more than 6 million streams on the first day of release on Spotify. She also broke her own record, making "New Woman" the song with the highest first-day streams on the platform for a female Kpop artist.

On iTunes, "New Woman" took the top spot in 35 countries and territories. YouTube views also increased continuously, proving the advantage of the Thai idol. Despite the high achievement, the new song of BLACKPINK's youngest member is still caught up in the controversy of "manipulating" digital music.

Accordingly, on August 20, Lisa dropped 42 ranks on Spotify's Artist Chart, stopping at #135. Compared to August 19, "New Woman" also dropped more than 700 thousand filtered streams. The number of listens per day, from 6 million on the first day, decreased to 3.6 million. Dropped by half just 4 days after release.

This drop immediately raised many questions. On social media, many people speculated that Lisa's song had been removed from Spotify's streams due to an invalid part, which came from "bot running" (using software to run over and over again to increase the number of listens).

In addition, "New Woman" also fell out of the US Spotify top spot despite collaborating with Grammy-winning artist Rosalía. Not to mention, Lisa's first 24-hour iTunes chart did not reach #1 in any of the world's top 8 largest music markets, including the US, UK, and Japan.

At this point, music fans began to question the real impact of "New Woman." It was clear that Lisa had good results, but it did not reflect her true influence on the market.

In terms of discussion, "New Woman" is indeed somewhat "less important" than ROCKSTAR and the first two songs the Thai idol released while under YG. The song is also criticized for being picky about listeners and difficult to create a trend to reach audiences through video platforms.

Summarizing the above details, many opinions say that the current series of indexes of "New Woman" is mostly created by fans, even using the trick of "manipulating digital music". Previously, Lisa was also involved in a similar controversy when promoting ROCKSTAR.

In another development, on the evening of August 21 (Vietnam time), the Twitter account of the MTV Video Music Awards announced the official lineup of performers for this year's awards ceremony. Lisa is the only Asian artist on the list, along with three American artists: Benson Boone, Halsey, and Lenny Kravitz.

It is known that this is the second time the 1997-born idol has appeared on the MTV VMAs stage. In 2022, all 4 BLACKPINK members landed at this awards ceremony with the performance of "Pink Venom". Notably, the MTV VMAs organizers also emphasized that "this is Lisa's first stage at the VMAs as a solo artist".

The Thai beauty made history when she became the first Kpop solo artist to win the "Best Kpop" category (for her solo song "Lalisa") at the 2022 MTV VMAs. This achievement also helped her set a Guinness World Record.

This year, Lisa is the K-pop artist with the most VMAs nominations. She won 4 different nominations for her solo hit ROCKSTAR, which was released nearly 2 months ago: Best Choreography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best K-pop Song.

Lisa rời BLACKPINK là bão tố, lạc lõng đến đáng thương, không nở nổi một nụ cười Snow08:08:23 15/09/2024Tham dự MTV VMAs 2024 với tư cách nghệ sĩ solo, tưởng chừng Lisa sẽ có bước đột phá trong sự nghiệp nhưng không, cô bị chỉ trích tan nát bởi màn trình diễn tại đây. Thậm chí còn bị gọi là K-flop.