Rosé (singer)

Roseanne Park (born 11 February 1997), known mononymously as Rosé, is a Korean-New Zealand singer and dancer based in South Korea.

Roseanne Park (Park Chae-young) was born on 11 February 1997 in Auckland, New Zealand, to South Korean immigrant parents.

She has an older sister.

In 2004, at the age of seven, Rosé and her family moved to Melbourne, Australia.

She began singing and learned to play guitar and piano as a child and performed in church choirs.

She attended Kew East Primary School, and Canterbury Girls' Secondary College but dropped out before Year 11, after signing with South Korean record label YG Entertainment.

Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Rosé signed with South Korean label YG Entertainment following a successful audition in 2012 and trained for four years before debuting as a member of the South Korean girl group Blackpink in August 2016.

In March 2021, Rosé made her solo debut with the single album R.

The album sold 448,089 copies in its first week, the highest figure by a female K-pop soloist.

Its lead single "On the Ground" peaked in the top five of South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart and became the highest-charting song by a female K-pop soloist on the US Billboard Hot 100, the Canadian Hot 100, and the UK Singles Chart.

It made Rosé the first artist to top the Billboard Global 200 as a soloist and as part of a group, and broke the record for the most-viewed music video in the first 24 hours on YouTube by a solo K-pop artist.

The album's second single "Gone" peaked in the top ten in South Korea as well.

Rosé has obtained several accolades throughout her career, including two Guinness World Records, a Hanteo Music Award, and a Mnet Asian Music Award.

She is the third-most followed Korean individual on Instagram and appeared on Rolling Stone's list of living icons from Australia and New Zealand.

Rosé has been acknowledged for her role in fashion as a global ambassador for Yves Saint Laurent, and became the first female Korean idol to attend the Met Gala in 2021.

In 2012, Rosé attended an audition in Sydney, Australia for YG Entertainment, whose label's music she already liked, at her father's suggestion.

She finished first among the 700 participants.

She had initially presumed her father's idea was a joke due to the distance and difficulty of becoming a singer overseas, and "she didn't think that there was much of a chance to become a K-pop star [herself]."

Two months later, she had signed with the label as a trainee, and moved to Seoul, South Korea.

The same year, Rosé was given an opportunity to feature on labelmate G-Dragon's song "Without You" from his extended play (EP) One of a Kind (2012).

Her name was not publicised at the time of release, her credit was revealed only following her announcement as a member of Blackpink.

The song peaked at number ten on South Korea's Gaon Music Chart and at number 15 on the Billboard Korea K-pop Hot 100.

Rosé trained at YG Entertainment for four years before she was revealed as the final member of the girl group Blackpink on 22 June 2016.

The group debuted on 8 August 2016 with the single album Square One, which featured the chart-topping single "Whistle" as well as the single "Boombayah".

In 2018, Blackpink signed with Interscope Records in a global partnership with YG Entertainment.

Rosé appeared on various broadcast programs, such as King of Masked Singer.

Her vocal performance on the show was met with warm reception by the audience, to which Rosé commented that she "didn't know if the audience would like [her] singing" and that she felt "happy and relieved" at the positive result.

She later appeared as a performer on the second season of Fantastic Duo.

The show's production staff stated that her appearance was intended to "reveal Rosé's vocal appeal, which is different from Blackpink".

On 1 June 2020, it was announced that Rosé would debut as a solo artist following the release of Blackpink's first Korean language full-length album.

On 30 December 2020, in an interview with South Korean media outlet Osen, her label revealed that filming for her debut music video would begin in mid-January 2021.

On 26 January 2021, a promotional teaser of Rosé's solo debut was released, revealing that a preview of her solo debut would be revealed through Blackpink Livestream Concert: The Show on 31 January 2021.

Rosé's debut single album, titled R, was released on 12 March 2021.

With 41.6 million views in 24 hours of the music video for the lead single "On the Ground", she broke the almost eight-year record held by former labelmate Psy's "Gentleman" for the most viewed music video by a Korean soloist in 24 hours.

"On the Ground" debuted and peaked at number one on both the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, the first song by a Korean solo artist to do so.

It peaked at number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the highest-charting song by a K-pop female soloist and the second-highest by a K-pop soloist in the US.

In the United Kingdom, "On the Ground" peaked at number 43 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the first song by a K-pop female solo artist to enter the chart.

In Canada, it debuted at number 35 on the Canadian Hot 100 and became the highest-charting hit by a Korean female soloist in the country.

The album R also set the record for the highest first-week sales by a Korean female soloist, with 448,089 copies sold.

On 24 March, Rosé received her first-ever music show win as a soloist with her single "On the Ground" on South Korean cable music program Show Champion and would go on to win five more.