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JENNIE'S "FALLEN ANGEL" IS OUT NOW LISA'S "SAWADIKA" IS OUT NOW — 100M+ VIEWS IN 48 HOURS JISOO'S "CLICK" IS OUT NOW LISA'S "PRESS PLAY" EP LANDS OCTOBER 23 JENNIE'S "FALLEN ANGEL" IS OUT NOW LISA'S "SAWADIKA" IS OUT NOW — 100M+ VIEWS IN 48 HOURS JISOO'S "CLICK" IS OUT NOW LISA'S "PRESS PLAY" EP LANDS OCTOBER 23

SEOUL — SEPTEMBER 2026

Four solos,
one wire.

BLACKPINK turned ten this month, and while the group's stadium-scale Deadline World Tour wrapped back in January, all four members are now stacking solo comebacks weeks apart from each other — Jennie's "Fallen Angel" is already out, Lisa's "SaWaDiKa" and Jisoo's "Click" both landed September 4, and Lisa's full Press Play EP follows in October. This page is a working build of how Blackpink Wire carries that story to English-speaking BLINKs — translated, sourced, and converted to whatever timezone you're reading from.

DISPATCH NO. 0002 · FILED 09:00 KST · Solo Season · 2026

Enter the wire room ↓ What is this?

The desks

DESK 01

News Desk

Korean coverage, translated and summarized daily — always credited back to the original outlet.

 DESK 02

Review Desk

Track-by-track reads on every era, from the debut trilogy to whatever's coming next.

 DESK 03

Screening Room

Official videos only, curated and embedded — never reuploaded.

 DESK 04

Signal Desk

A comeback and release calendar, converted into whatever timezone you're in.

 DESK 05

Quiz Desk

Quick, shareable quizzes built for the group chat, not the algorithm.

 DESK 06

Market Desk

Where to buy official merch and tickets abroad, without the guesswork.

Member Desks

Four solo careers, four dedicated pages.

Each member now has her own desk — news, reviews, official videos, and a release countdown, all in one place.

Fallen Angel Era

Jennie

Ruby, Odd Atelier, and the August 28 Fallen Angel EP.

 Click Era

Jisoo

Flower, Amortage, and the September 4 "CLICK" single.

 Between Eras

Rosé

rosie, "APT.," and a historic 2026 Grammy performance.

 Press Play Era

Lisa

Alter Ego, SaWaDiKa, Press Play, and VIVA LA LISA in Vegas.

Desk 01 · News

Translated for the timeline you don't read.

Every dispatch below links back to its original source, Korean or otherwise — this desk summarizes, it doesn't replace.

SEOUL — OCT 27

Jisoo follows 'Click' with 'Addicted' as her second pre-release single

'Addicted' is the second pre-release single from Jisoo's first full-length solo album, after 'Click' in September. Her label describes it as darker and more intense than its predecessor, with release set for 8 a.m. KST on Oct. 30, teasers in the days before and a return to Korean music shows. The date of the full album has not been announced.

Summarized from The Korea Times by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — OCT 23

Lisa's 'PRESS PLAY' EP is out, led by the Tarantino-inspired 'Tarantino'

Lisa released her first solo EP, 'PRESS PLAY', at midnight KST on Oct. 23, her first release in about one year and eight months. The six tracks are 'Tarantino' (the lead track), 'SaWaDiKa', 'V12', 'Cobra', 'Cut U Off' and 'Sweat'. The 'Tarantino' video follows her through a hotel as she tries to deliver a letter to director Quentin Tarantino, and she previewed the full EP the night before at a vintage-cinema-themed listening party in Seongsu-dong, Seoul. 'SaWaDiKa' had already debuted at No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, her best showing there.

Summarized from Sports Kyunghyang by Blackpink Wire staff.

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LOS ANGELES — OCT 13

Rose is booked to perform at LACMA's Art+Film Gala on Nov. 7

Rose is set to perform at the 2026 LACMA Art+Film Gala in Los Angeles on Nov. 7. Gucci presents the evening, and Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio serve as co-chairs. Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and artist Vija Celmins are this year's honorees. Details of the set, including songs and length, have not been shared yet. The booking puts the BLACKPINK member on a bill with some of Hollywood's biggest names under four weeks after the announcement.

Summarized from Soompi by Blackpink Wire staff.

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K-WIRE NETWORK — OCT 14

K-Trail Seoul is live: a free K-pop pilgrimage map for Seoul, Busan, Goyang, Incheon and Jeju

K-Wire Network's sister project, K-Trail Seoul, is officially live and free to use — no account, no paywall. It's an offline-ready map of real K-pop pilgrimage spots: agency HQs, concert and broadcast venues, cafes and culture stops, plus curated hotels and restaurants near the busiest clusters (Seongsu, Hongdae, Myeongdong, K-Star Road, Jamsil), now covering five cities — Seoul, Busan, Goyang, Incheon and Jeju. It installs straight to your home screen as an app (Share → Add to Home Screen on iOS, the install banner on Android/desktop), saves map areas for offline use before you lose signal, and lets you save and share individual spots. With Fanomenon set to bring a wave of international fans to Korea in December 2027, this is the time to start building your own trail.

Posted by Blackpink Wire staff.

Open K-Trail map ↗

SEOUL — OCT 7

JYP’s Park Jin-young defends "Fanomenon" trademark filing, explains agency selection at National Assembly hearing

Park Jin-young, co-chair of the Presidential Committee on Popular Culture Exchange, appeared before the National Assembly’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee to explain the process behind "Fanomenon" — a government-linked joint venture between HYBE, JYP, SM and YG for an annual K-pop awards show, concert series and exhibition set to debut in Seoul and Gyeonggi in December 2027. Park told lawmakers that his solo filing of the "Fanomenon" and "Pandemonium" trademarks overseas, ahead of any transfer to the joint entity, was a rushed but necessary step to stop the names from being taken by someone else before the joint venture could register them itself. On the selection of the four agencies without a public tender, Park argued the arrangement was a sacrifice rather than a favor, noting the four labels stood to earn two to three times more running individual concerts on their own. Lawmakers also raised questions about the committee’s projected 520,000 visitors and roughly 1 trillion won in economic impact, which organizers have described as provisional, midpoint estimates.

Summarized from the Korea JoongAng Daily by Blackpink Wire staff.

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GOYANG — OCT 8

Jennie lives out a 2023 duet in real life on a Goyang stage

Jennie made a surprise guest appearance at The Weeknd's "Hyundai Card Super Concert 28," the closing night of his two-show Korean leg of the "After Hours Til Dawn" tour — his first Seoul-area shows in eight years. She joined him to perform "One of the Girls," their 2023 collaboration from HBO's "The Idol" soundtrack, telling him on stage, "Thank you so much for having me; thank you, Abel." The two-night run at Goyang Stadium drew a combined 110,000 fans.

Summarized from Korea JoongAng Daily by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — OCT 3

BLACKPINK expected to sit out the Grammys' new "Asian Pop" category, following BTS and Stray Kids

BLACKPINK is reported to be refraining from Grammy submission this cycle, after the Recording Academy confirmed on Oct. 1 a new "Best Asian Pop Music Performance" category that classifies music by region and language. Their February 2026 album "Deadline" is mostly English-language, and its one Korean-language track, "Run," was already submitted in a prior cycle — leaving little left to enter even if the group wanted to. Unlike BTS, who declared a boycott in July, and Stray Kids, who followed on Oct. 4, BLACKPINK has not issued a formal statement — but K-pop acts broadly oppose the new category, with BTS saying they hope "music can be heard and loved for what it is rather than being categorized by region or language."

Summarized from SBS (English) by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — SEP 26

Jisoo sparks dating speculation with actor Seo Kang Jun

Fans began circulating side-by-side Instagram posts placing Jisoo and actor Seo Kang Jun in New York around the same time, alongside matching ring designs and a report that he attended a recent BLACKPINK concert. Neither YG Entertainment nor Seo Kang Jun's agency has commented, and nothing here is confirmed — but the online reaction has been almost entirely supportive, with the pairing trending as a fan-favorite "visual couple."

Summarized from allkpop by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — SEP 18

Rosé releases "new trick" as part of Apple’s "Shot on iPhone" campaign

Rosé released the single "new trick" on Sept. 18, with a music video shot entirely on iPhone 18 Pro as part of Apple’s global "Shot on iPhone" campaign. The track entered Spotify’s Global Daily Chart at No. 133 shortly after release.

Summarized from The Korea JoongAng Daily by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — SEP 11

Rosé breaks her solo silence: "new trick" lands September 18, completing the group's 2026 solo cycle

Rosé confirmed her long-awaited follow-up to rosie with a pop-rock single, "new trick," out September 18. Directed by Dave Meyers and shot entirely on an iPhone 18 Pro, the release makes her the last of the four members to land a 2026 solo comeback, after Jennie, Jisoo, and Lisa. She told Vogue the track is "so not sad" — a deliberate turn away from the melancholy of her debut era.

Summarized from Billboard Philippines by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — SEP 7

Jisoo's "CLICK" tops both Hanteo weekly charts

For the tracking week of August 31–September 6, Jisoo's pre-release single "CLICK" topped Hanteo's World Chart with a World Index of 11,412.26 — more than 1,100 points ahead of second-place Stray Kids — and also topped the weekly Album Chart with 102,010 copies sold, edging out 82Major's higher raw sales through Hanteo's index weighting.

Summarized from allkpop by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — SEP 6

Lisa's "SaWaDiKa" becomes 2026's fastest music video to hit 100 million views

Released September 4 at 9 a.m. KST, the "SaWaDiKa" music video crossed 100 million YouTube views roughly two days and four hours later — the fastest any 2026 release has reached that mark.

Summarized from Soompi by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — SEP 4

Same-day drop: Jisoo's "Click" and Lisa's "SaWaDiKa" both land September 4

Two of the three solo comebacks Blackpink Wire has been tracking arrived on the same day — Jisoo's pre-release single "Click" and Lisa's "SaWaDiKa," the lead single off her upcoming Press Play EP. Full coverage, official videos, and each release's own countdown live on their dedicated member desks.

Roundup by Blackpink Wire staff.

Jisoo's full desk ↗ Lisa's full desk ↗

SEOUL — AUG 28

Jennie's "Fallen Angel" is out — and Lisa's lead single now has a date

Jennie's "Fallen Angel" EP and title MV released August 28 as scheduled. Days earlier, Lisa's label confirmed her Press Play EP will be led by a single called "SaWaDiKa," landing September 3 — three weeks ahead of the full EP's October 23 release, and now the first of three solo drops arriving within nine days of each other.

Summarized from UPI, Billboard, and Billboard Philippines by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — AUG 24

All four members lock in solo comebacks within nine weeks of each other

Jennie's "Fallen Angel" video arrives August 28, Jisoo follows with "Click" on September 4, and Lisa's Press Play EP is set for October 23 — the tightest clustering of individual releases since the group's post-Born Pink hiatus began. Rosé has said only that she's "consistently working on music," with no date confirmed yet.

Summarized from Billboard by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — AUG 9

Group marks its 10th anniversary with a 40-fan meet-and-greet — and addresses the backlash over its size

All four members gathered at the National Museum of Korea for a Weverse-broadcast anniversary event, their first joint fan appearance in Korea since last July's Goyang stadium shows. Jisoo addressed criticism that the guest list was a fraction of the 88 fans invited for the group's eighth anniversary: "there seems to have been a problem in our communication. I feel sorry about that."

Translated & summarized from The Korea Times by Blackpink Wire staff.

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SEOUL — MAR 2

DEADLINE's first day: 1.46 million copies, a K-pop girl-group record

Title track "GO" went straight to No. 1 on YouTube's worldwide trending chart within a day of release, and the mini-album topped iTunes album charts in 38 regions as the group's own channel crossed 100 million YouTube subscribers.

Summarized from StarNews Korea by Blackpink Wire staff.

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Desk 02 · Review

Revisiting the catalogue, track by track.

Text only, always — no reposted photos or video frames on this desk.

4.2 / 5EDITOR'S STAMP
"DEADLINE isn't a group album making room for four solo careers — it's a five-track argument that those careers were the point all along."

DEADLINE (2026): five tracks, no features, no interest in being subtle about it. BLACKPINK's first group release since 2022's BORN PINK arrived as a tight mini-album — "GO," "Me and my," "Champion," "Fxxxboy," and "JUMP" (already out as a single since July 2025) — built, by the group's own account, around a sound none of them had tried together before.

Title track "GO" doesn't ease into the comeback so much as announce it: a sub-three-minute sprint that reportedly went to No. 1 on YouTube's global trending chart within a day, on its way to a first-day sales figure Korean trade press called the highest ever for a K-pop girl group.

Read the full track-by-track →
7 / 10EDITOR'S STAMP
"The song is dead behind the eyes."

"Click" (2026): Jisoo's English-language pivot toward global pop, reviewed track by track. The single hits its marks — chorus, melodic progression, bridge — but a critical review from The Bias List calls it "sanitized, personality-free pop that's so sterile and frictionless you could throw it at a wall and it wouldn't even bounce."

The reviewer frames it as the sound of a mainstream pivot: technically sound, emotionally hollow, and short on the personality that has defined Jisoo's catalogue so far.

Read the full review →
6.75 / 10EDITOR'S STAMP
"There she went."

"SaWaDiKa" (2026): a rap comeback built on bragging rights. The Bias List calls the production "solid, though hardly original or forward-thinking," and singles out the chorus as "particularly lame" — arguing the track spends its runtime asserting Lisa's talent rather than demonstrating it.

The verdict: a song built for the fandom rather than for lasting impact on the wider pop landscape.

Read the full review →

Desk 03 · Screening Room

Only what the members' own labels actually published.

Every clip here is an official YouTube embed. If it isn't published on an official channel, it doesn't play on this desk.

"Fallen Angel" — Official Video

Jennie's August 28 release, embedded directly from her own channel — the first of the three-in-nine-weeks solo run to actually land.

"GO" — Official MV

The DEADLINE title track, embedded directly from BLACKPINK's own channel. This is the only way video appears on Blackpink Wire — no downloads, no reuploads.

"APT." — Official MV

Rosé's crossover single with Bruno Mars, not a group release but impossible to leave out — the video reportedly reached a billion views faster than any K-pop artist's MV before it.

"CLICK" — Official MV

Jisoo's September 4 pre-release single, directed by Joseph Kahn and shot in Bangkok. Video ID verified against BLISSOO's own official post plus two independent outlet embeds (The Bias List, Soompi).

"SaWaDiKa" — Official Music Video

Lisa's September 4 rap single from the upcoming Press Play EP — the fastest 2026 MV to reach 100 million views. Video ID verified against two independent outlet embeds (Billboard Canada, Bandwagon Asia).

Desk 04 · Signal

Converted to your clock, automatically.

Dates are real 2026 solo release dates as reported to date; release times are estimated at 1pm KST (the group's typical drop time) until each member's label confirms the exact minute.

Lisa — "Press Play" EP releases Confirmed

Oct 23, 2026 · 12:00 AM KST · —

—time since

Rosé performs at the LACMA Art+Film Gala Estimated time

Nov 7, 2026 · ~7:00 PM PT (estimated) · —

—time left

Detected timezone: — · Full 2026 solo rundown: member-by-member ↗

Desk 05 · Quiz

Which era matches your mood tonight?

Three questions, no email required — built to demonstrate the interaction, not to collect data.

QUESTION 1 / 3

Pick a late-night activity.

RESULT

Desk 06 · Market

Buying official, from outside Korea.

Links go to official storefronts. On the live site, tagged links here are where affiliate revenue would come from.

YG Select

DEADLINE album versions, photocards, and official merch, with international shipping.

Visit store ↗ Affiliate link (example)

Weverse Shop

Solo-era merch for Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé as each release lands, shipped worldwide.

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Next dates on the books

No group tour is currently scheduled — check the Signal Desk for each member's solo release date, then watch their own channels for tour or fan-meet announcements.

See the Signal Desk ↗