K-pops women on top: Aespas Karina wins music show, Blackpinks Rose and Jennie dominating K-charts (VIDEO)

SEOUL, Oct 19 — It’s a good week for women in K-pop as Blackpink Jennie and Rosé’s new singles are both charting in the top five of Korea’s music streaming charts.

Rosé’s single, a collaboration with Bruno Mars called APT (after a popular drinking song) has even topped all four of the major music charts, namely Melon, Bugs, FLO and Genie, scoring her a Realtime All Kill (RAK) in Korean music chart terms.

Meanwhile Aespa’s Karina who also scored quite a few RAKs of her own with her solo single Up just won first place on MBC’s Music Core music show.

Music Core is one of the tougher shows to win as it needs strong scores not just in digital streaming points but social media views, pre-voting as well as live voting from fans, high broadcast …