With K-pop globalizing and K-pop artists making their way into the global music market, more and more Korean singers have been collaborating with overseas artists.
Recently, Puerto Rican singer OZUNA revealed in an interview at the MTV Awards saying that K-pop girl group BLACKPINK will feature in his upcoming single. As he revealed the new information, he called out various artists that collaborated with him in this new upcoming album. He named artists Megan Thee Stallion and BLACKPINK as the artists that will be featuring in his new album.
This is not the first time BLACKPINK will be collaborating with an overseas artist. Back in 2020, BLACKPINK collaborated with Selena Gomez and released the single "Ice Cream." They also have collaborated with Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, and Cardi B. As soon as this interview was released, the short clip was shared on social media as BLACKPINK fans anticipate another awesome collaboration work with an overseas singer.
Though I'm personally not a fan of him, as a Puerto Rican I can't help but feel enormous pride. Such a small island has managed to produce so many of the best selling artists in Latin America and urban music. Many foreigners could be ignorant and think they are doing a collab with a random nobody, but Ozuna is HUGE in Latin America and completely dominates the market. I myself get shocked to see that he has videos in the billions. Just because you may not now the Latin music industry doesn't make it any less huge of a market. in my opinion this is business at it's finest, cause the man is at a level where he could release anything and it would be successful regardless. Many of those dancers from SWF have done choreos to his songs and other latin urban music as well, ya'll just take it as dance music without thinking much of who the song is from.