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Blackpink's Rose wins BreakTudo Award for International Breakthrough Artist

The Brazilian Award show saw many wins for K-pop but Blackpink dominated the list of wins and Rose won a solo award at the event

The BreakTudo Awards is a Brazilian award ceremony that became the first regional award ceremony to felicitate a K-pop group with Blackpink at the top of their list. 2021 marks the second annual BreakTudo Awards and Blackpink has become a favorite at the event. The show not only awarded the group for their collective achievements but also awarded Rose from the group for a special award.

The BreakTudo Awards are given annually to artists in the fields of music, film, television, and internet entertainment. All categories are voted for online via their official website and Twitter. The nominees for the ceremony are chosen by entertainment professionals in Brazil and the ceremony organizer, taking into account several criteria. The first show for the year 2020 was an online broadcast of the event which continued on for the year 2021.

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Blackpink wins at BreakTudo Awards 2021

On October 21, the ceremony’s official social media accounts shared the winners of the show which saw a lot of K-pop artists as nominees. Out of all the categories, K-pop saw a total of eight wins which is impressive for the genre of music to do so well at a regional event. Blackpink dominated the show but the event also saw winners from the third and fourth generation of K-pop.

Blackpink’s Rose took a big win at the show with the title of 2021 International Breakthrough Artist for her solo album, ‘R’ with songs like ‘On The Ground’ and ‘Gone’ which saw Rose give out a raw and emotional performance that resonated well with the audience. The K-pop girl group Blackpink dominated the event by taking the most number of wins in total among many regional acts.

Blackpink won the title for the ‘Best Female Group in K-pop’, ‘Best International Song’ for their latest release, ‘Lovesick Girls’ as well as ‘Best International Fandom’ for their fans, Blinks. This makes the total number of wins for Blackpink four.

Other K-pop wins

K-pop otherwise also dominated the event by taking a total of eight wins at the show. K-pop’s icon IU is one of the most loved soloists in South Korea, after being a called the Nation’s Sister, IU’s charm and likeability have transcended internationally with IU winning the ‘Global Artist Award’ at the BreakTudo Awards, 2021.

After Blackpink won the title for the ‘Best Female K-pop Group’, fourth-generation ‘Noeasy’ boys Stray Kids won the title for ‘Best Male K-pop Group’ making the only win from a fourth-gen group at the event. BTS also took a win at the show with their hit single, ‘Butter’ winning the title for the “Best International Hit’ while GOT7’s Thai-born idol, Bambam took the title for ‘Best Asian Star’ at the event.

'Rose you deserve it'

Fans took to Twitter to congratulate their favorite as they trended ‘Congratulations Rose’ and #BreakthroughArtistROSÉ. One fan said, “SO PROUD OF YOU LOVE.” Another fan celebrated saying, “This photo is my favorite so far, just in time for the celebration.” One more fan said, “She won her first International Award with BreakTudo Awards 2021 as a Breakthrough Artist this year, so proud of her and can't wait for more deserving awards for rosé.”

One proud fan said, “I hope you know how amazing you are, Rosé . You did really well. Super duper proud of you. CONGRATULATIONS ROSÉ.” One more fan added, “So proud of our rosie <33, you've come so far baby.” Fans also congratulated Rose saying, “We are very proud of you, #ROSÉ! You really deserve it! CONGRATULATIONS ROSÉ.”