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10 Significant Achievements by Asian Artists in Billboard Chart History: From Kyu Sakamato to PSY to BLACKPINK
From BTS to Wonder Girls to PSY, here are 10 significant Billboard chart achievements by Asian artists.
Enter Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto’s romantic ballad “Sukiyaki,” the Anglo-Saxonized version of the original title “Ue O Muite Arukou,” meaning “I Look Up As I Walk.” The single hit the top of the chart in the summer of 1963 as the first non-European song to reached No. Although it’s hard to envision mainstream music without K-pop today, Wonder Girls marked the start of the sound’s global rise through an all-English version of their hit, “Nobody.” In 2009, their track made its way onto the Hot 100, and peaked at No. BLACKPINK’s staying power has helped the quartet set several records across platforms, from being the first artist to hit 75 million subscribers on YouTube in June 2022 to being the first Asian act to headline Coachella in 2023.
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