Jump just made BLACKPINK the first and only K-pop act to top Spotify’s daily chart three times — and the Deadline World Tour is already moving. I’ve been tracking solo receipts all week waiting for this exact moment, and now we’ve got a chart record and stadium photos in the same rundown. This is the BLACKPINK Daily Podcast — today we’ve got the comeback confirmation, the KED Global chart number, a Billboard Met Gala piece with all four members on the same red carpet, and a world tour that is very much in motion. Friday. Finally. Let’s go. YG Entertainment writes:
BLACKPINK! They are set to make a powerful comeback next month. Their agency, YG Entertainment, revealed a comeback teaser and announced that the group will release their third mini-album, titled “DEADLINE,” on February 27th. This is BLACKPINK’s first full-length album release in three-and-a-half years, since “BORN PINK” in September 2022.
Let’s put a timestamp on it: YG confirmed February 27th, the mini-album is called DEADLINE, and this is the first full-group release since BORN PINK in September 2022 — three and a half years, and that clock is done. And the tour shares the name, the Goyang Stadium photos are real, and Jump is sitting on top of Spotify’s daily chart for the third time — which KED Global says makes them the only K-pop act to ever do that three times. I spent the whole week waiting for receipts. The receipts are in. The Billboard Met Gala piece is the part I keep coming back to — all four members walking the 2026 Gala separately, four individual red carpet moments at the highest-profile fashion event of the year, right in the middle of a group comeback cycle. That doesn’t happen by accident. It also changes how I read every solo brand move we tracked this week — Jisoo’s Salomon deal, Jennie’s Chanel moment, all of it — because now there’s one night where all four showed up as individuals on the same stage and every outlet had to cover them separately. That’s a portfolio play at scale. Here’s KED Global: The number from KED Global is simple: Jump just became the third time BLACKPINK has topped Spotify’s daily chart, making them the first and only K-pop act to hit that mark three times. That’s not a vibe — that’s a specific record with a source attached. And that KED Global photo credit — Goyang Stadium, Deadline World Tour — that’s not a render. That’s a concert that already happened. Joey has been asking for receipts all week. The receipts are in the article. YG made the comeback confirmation on February 27. The Goyang show is already behind them. The gap between announcement and active world tour is basically nothing — and the chart record landed right in that window. Jennie walks into Lollapalooza on July 30 as a member of the only K-pop act to top that chart three times. That Lolla headline-billing argument just got a lot easier to make. Joe Lynch, writing in Billboard:
BLACKPINK members JENNIE, JISOO, LISA and ROSÉ all hit the Met Gala red carpet on Monday (May 4), walking the red carpet individually and flaunting distinct fashion sensibilities. For her Met Gala debut, JISOO was decked out in a sparkly pink floral gown, which she told Vogue red carpet co-hosts Ashley Graham and Cara Delevingne was a custom Dior by Jonathan Anderson.
Billboard confirmed all four members walked the 2026 Met Gala red carpet solo — four separate moments, four distinct looks, same night. That’s not a group appearance. That’s a coordinated individual rollout at the highest-profile fashion event of the year. And this is the receipts moment I’ve been waiting for all week. Jisoo’s Salomon deal, Jennie’s Chanel arc, Lisa’s Shiseido, Rosé’s Levi’s — I’ve been logging those as separate brand stories. The Met Gala just put all four on the same stage on the same night and said: these are individual industry figures. Jisoo’s was a Met Gala debut, per the Vogue red carpet coverage — which means three of those solo walks carried different weight. That’s worth separating out, because “all four showed up” undersells what a debut appearance signals for her individual brand positioning right now. Billboard covering all four as named individuals in a Western editorial register — that’s the same move BoF made with Jisoo alone, except now it’s OT4. The fandom has been at this scale for years. Nice of the trade press to finally format the coverage to match. Here's Anna Chan at Billboard:
Billboard charts records? Check! First K-pop girl group to not only perform at Coachella, but first Asian act to headline the festival? Done! New Guinness World Records? Yep! Surpassing Justin Bieber in YouTube subscribers? You know it! Becoming the first artist to surpass 100 million subscribers on the video platform? Yep! And that’s just several of the notable accomplishments the four ladies of BLACKPINK have notched on their belts in just a few short years.
Billboard ran a full history-making timeline piece on BLACKPINK this week — and the framing matters: this isn’t a K-pop trade rundown, it’s a Western editorial outlet treating a decade of firsts as a standalone chronicle. Coachella headline, 100 million YouTube subscribers, Guinness records — all in one document. And that document drops the same week Jump tops Spotify’s daily chart for the third time, making them the only K-pop act to ever do that per KED Global. Billboard writing the legacy piece while the group is actively adding to it in real time — that’s a receipts file, not a retrospective. The Jennie quote Billboard leads with — “all the records are the results of our fans” — is interesting editorial placement. They’re opening a history-making timeline with a line that hands the credit back to BLINKs. That’s a deliberate choice about whose story this is. Joey flagged all week that outlets were underselling the fandom’s actual scale. Billboard just published the counter-argument in timeline form. I’ll take it. If BLACKPINK Daily Podcast is part of your routine, take a moment to subscribe and leave a review wherever you’re listening. It really helps other fans find the show, and it means a lot.
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That’s BLACKPINK Daily Podcast for this Friday, May 29th. Thanks for listening, and we’ll be back next time. This is a Lantern Podcast.