A dwell efficiency from Jennie (entrance) and her fellow Blackpink members. Picture Credit score: HeyDay
Nearer to December’s starting, YG Leisure re-signed Blackpink to an unique deal. Now, it’s emerged that the favored Ok-pop woman group’s members have opted towards extending their solo agreements with the corporate.
Seoul-headquartered YG Leisure only in the near past revealed the solo-career information in a press release, with sure of the act’s 4 members having weighed in on the event as effectively. Per Yonhap, practically 28-year-old YG particularly acknowledged that it had “’agreed to not prolong our contracts relating to particular person actions’” on the a part of Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa.
In the meantime, the Ok-pop company additional signaled that it’ll proceed to present the artists behind “How You Like That” its “’full assist and sincerely cheer for his or her particular person actions’” shifting ahead. Although the exact profession plans of every Blackpink member stay to be seen, Jennie has already indicated that she’s established an organization referred to as OA (brief for Odd Atelier) for her solo work.
“Hello, that is Jennie,” the 27-year-old wrote to followers in a picture message, printed in English and Korean. “This 12 months was full of many accomplishments, and I’m so grateful for all of the love I’ve obtained. I’m additionally enthusiastic about what’s to return, as I begin my solo journey in 2024 with an organization that I’ve established referred to as OA.
“Please present numerous love for my new begin with OA and naturally, Blackpink. Thanks,” concluded Jennie, whose aptly titled debut solo single, “Solo,” dropped again in 2018.
Particularly given the industrial milestones achieved by different Ok-pop artists’ solo initiatives throughout 2023, it’ll be price maintaining a tally of the industrial feats of Blackpink members’ particular person efforts all through 2024.
BTS, all seven members of which re-signed with Hybe/Huge Hit in September, noticed its Spotify month-to-month listener depend surpassed by that of “Seven” creator Jungkook in August; the latter skilled made a splash along with his debut album in November and had an fringe of about 5 million listeners on the time of this writing.
However we needn’t wait to see whether or not the person releases of Blackpink’s members will drive related outcomes; Jennie already has 29.18 million month-to-month Spotify listeners to Blackpink’s 19.55 million.
Rosé, for her half, has a strong 3.92 million listeners (with the higher a part of 400 million streams for “On the Floor”), towards 8.80 million for Lisa (with 1.06 billion streams on “Cash”) and 4.96 million for Jisoo (with 351.24 million streams on “Flower”).
Earlier this month, BigBang member G-Dragon formally departed YG after beating a drug-use investigation, and Louis Vuitton named SM Leisure-signed Riize as its latest home ambassadors. Larger image, heading into the brand new 12 months, Hybe, Attrakt, SM, Titan Content material, and several other others are creating extra Ok-pop teams but.
By the Numbers – A Non-Exhaustive Record of Ok-Pop Teams’ Spotify Month-to-month Listeners
BTS – 30.85 million
NewJeans – 21.13 million
Blackpink – 19.55 million
Fifty Fifty – 17.20 million
Le Sserafim – 12.76 million
Twice – 10.36 million
Tomorrow X Collectively – 10.06 million
Aespa – 10.02 million
Ive – 8.59 million
Crimson Velvet – 7.48 million
Exo – 5.82 million
NCT Dream – 4.84 million
BabyMonster (which solely debuted a month in the past) – 4.53 million
XG – 4.29 million
BigBang – 3.22 million
Riize – 2.75 million
StayC – 2.67 million
Everglow – 2.33 million
Monsta X – 1.87 million
ZeroBaseOne – 1.47 million
Kard – 1.40 million
Pentagon – 1.30 million