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Single by Blackpink and Selena Gomez | ||||
from the album The Album | ||||
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Released | August 28, 2020 | |||
Studio | The Black Label Studio (Seoul) | |||
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Length | 2:56 | |||
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"Ice Cream" on YouTube |
"Ice Cream" is a song by South Korean girl group Blackpink and American singer Selena Gomez. It was released on August 28, 2020, through YG Entertainment and Interscope Records, as the second pre-release single from the group's debut studio album, The Album (2020). The song was composed by Gomez with Tommy Brown, Mr. Franks, Teddy, Bekuh Boom, Victoria Monét, 24, and Ariana Grande, while its lyrics were penned by Boom, Monét, and Teddy. "Ice Cream" is an electropop and bubblegum pop song with elements of trap. Lyrically, the song mainly consists of ice cream-related double entendres.
"Ice Cream" peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first single by a female Korean act to enter the top twenty of the chart and subsequently becoming the longest-charting song by a female Korean act on the Hot 100. Elsewhere, the song has peaked within the top ten on both Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S., as well as charts in South Korea, El Salvador, Hungary, Malaysia and Singapore. It also has figured within the record charts in other 22 countries. An official music video was released simultaneously with the single on Blackpink's YouTube channel and garnered 79.08 million views in its first 24 hours, the third biggest 24-hour debut for a music video at the time. It was nominated for Best Collaboration at the MTV Europe Music Awards, Music Video of 2020 at the People's Choice Awards, and Best K-Pop at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.