{"id":172753,"date":"2026-07-31T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=172753"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:05:54","slug":"blackpinks-jennie-earns-first-place-with-less-than-a-lover-on-m-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/blackpinks-jennie-earns-first-place-with-less-than-a-lover-on-m-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK\u2019s Jennie earns first place with \u201cLess Than a Lover,\u201d on M Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BLACKPINK<\/strong>\u2019s<strong> Jennie<\/strong>\u2019s new single<strong><em>, \u201cLess Than a Lover,\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>was released out of the blue, and K-Netizens had no other option but to stan this iconic musical project. Jennie moved on to an alternative pop track to prove her versatility in the industry, and all of her efforts are paying off.<\/p>\n<p>On July 30 KST,<strong> BLACKPINK\u2019s Jennie took first place on the popular South Korean music program Mnet&#8217;s<em> &#8216;M Countdown&#8217;<\/em> with her new solo track<\/strong>, even without appearing on the broadcast to promote the song. However, it\u2019s not a surprise the song is taking awards home as it reached number one on the Bugs real-time chart and Apple Music&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8217;s TOP 100: Korea&#8221; chart. It also topped YouTube&#8217;s trending videos in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Win on M COUNTDOWN in ep 939: JENNIE \u2014 Less than a Lover (260730) (1st win) \" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q6G8gIqE_a0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLess Than a Lover\u201d<\/em> features lo-fi guitar and vintage electric keyboard sounds, which were <strong>written<\/strong> and <strong>composed<\/strong> by Jennie. The song is all about the feelings between friendship and romance in a complex friends\u2019 dynamics, which resonates with the audience and ultimately becomes one of the greatest songs of this week in the South Korean music program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKPINK\u2019s Jennie\u2019s new single, \u201cLess Than a Lover,\u201d was released out of the blue, and K-Netizens had no other option but to stan this iconic musical project. Jennie moved on to an alternative pop track to prove her versatility in the industry, and all of her efforts are paying off. On July 30 KST, BLACKPINK\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":172755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1631,16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-172753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-awards","category-kpop","tag-blackpink"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172758,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172753\/revisions\/172758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}