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History 2016: Debut with Square One and Square Two With promotional preparation beginning in August 2012 with the release of teaser images and participation in few songs and advertisements[1][2], YG Entertainment revealed the final line-up and name of the group on June 29, 2016.[3][4]

Black Pink performing at the 31st Golden Disc Awards on January 13, 2017. Black Pink became the first girl group that debuted under YG Entertainment in seven years after 2NE1,[5] with their debut single album Square One released on August 8, 2016.[5][6] The first title track, "Whistle", a "minimal hip-hop track",[7] was produced by Teddy Park and Future Bounce and written by Teddy Park, iKon's B.I, and Bekuh BOOM.[8][9] The second title track, "Boombayah", was produced by Teddy Park and co-written by Bekuh BOOM.[10] Its music video was directed by Seo Hyun-seung.[11] The two title tracks charted at number one and two on the Billboard World Digital Songs chart, and Black Pink are by far the fastest act to do so and the third Korean artist or group to hold the top two positions after Psy and Big Bang.[12] "Whistle" topped the digital, download, streaming, and mobile charts on Gaon in August 2016.[13] They also reached number one on the weekly, popularity, music video, and K-pop music video charts of China's biggest music-streaming website QQ Music.[14] Black Pink's first music show performance was aired on August 14, 2016 on SBS's Inkigayo.[15] They won first place on Inkigayo 13 days after their debut, and broke the record for the shortest time for a girl group to win on a music program after debut. They wrapped up their promotions for Square One on September 11, 2016 with another win on Inkigayo.

Black Pink released their second single album Square Two with the lead singles "Playing with Fire" and "Stay" on November 1, 2016. The songs are produced by Teddy Park with R.Tee and Seo Won Jin. They performed their comeback stage on Inkigayo on November 6 and on Mnet's M Countdown on November 10, 2016.[16] "Playing with Fire" was their second single to hit number one on the Billboard World Digital Songs chart.[17] In South Korea, "Playing with Fire" peaked at number three while "Stay" managed to reach the tenth spot.[18]

Black Pink's successful debut year earned the group several awards for Best New Artist of the Year at major Korean award shows, including the Melon Music Awards,[19] the Golden Disc Awards[20] and at the Seoul Music Awards.[21] Additionally, Billboard named them the second best new K-pop group of 2016.[22]