K-pop: Blackpink make history as first Korean band to headline UK festival
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The theatrical performane included a crane that lifted them above the audience!
Blackpink have made history by becoming the first ever Korean band to headline a major UK music festival.
The K-pop girl group performed an incredible set to a crowd of 65,000 fans, after selling out the BST Hyde Park festival in London.
It's not the first headline slot they've played this year - the group also performed the main slot at Coachella in the USA in April.
They first played the famous Californian festival in 2019, and were the first ever K-pop group to do so.
Here you can see Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé and Lisa performing earlier this year
The girl group was formed in an intense six-year-long bootcamp
Whistle, their debut single, was released in 2016
They're the most followed band on YouTube
They're the first K-pop girl group to have sold one million records
Their most recent album Born Pink was number one in the UK charts
The band headlined the Coachella festival in the US in April (pictured), and their London show was a revamped version of that set
Blackpink are one of the biggest bands in the world right now.
Made up of Lisa, Jennie, Rosé and Jisoo, they're known for huge pop anthems with punchy lyrics, and energetic, synchronised choreography.
They're currently on a world tour - so far they've performed in Australia and Japan, and will soon be jetting off to Vietnam and then the USA again.
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