BLACKPINK member Jennie has signed to Columbia Records as a solo artist in partnership together with her file label and leisure firm ODDATELIER, it was introduced Sunday (Sept. 8). The singer is slated to launch a brand new solo single in October.

The information follows final December’s revelation that each one BLACKPINK members had break up with their label, YG Entertainment, for his or her solo output, whereas extending their contract with the label for group actions.

Last June, Jennie launched “One of the Girls” alongside The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp, her co-stars on HBO’s The Idol. The monitor has since been streamed greater than 1 billion instances on Spotify alone and has been licensed platinum by the RIAA; it additionally peaked at No. 18 on Billboard‘s Pop Airplay chart. She followed that up in October with “You & Me,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, making her the second member of BLACKPINK to hit No. 1 on the survey after Rosé’s “On the Ground.”

Earlier this yr, Jennie dropped a pair of collaborative singles: “SPOT!” with ZICO and “Slow Motion” with Matt Champion. Her first solo single, the aptly-titled “SOLO,” was launched in 2018 and went on to prime Billboard‘s World Digital Song Sales chart.

Jennie was first launched in 2016 as one-fourth of the Okay-pop lady group BLACKPINK, which in 2023 grew to become the primary Korean act ever to headline Coachella. The group has charted a complete of 9 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, with their highest-charting, “Ice Cream” with Selena Gomez, peaking at No. 13. With the discharge of the group’s second studio album, 2022’s Born Pink, BLACKPINK grew to become solely the third South Korean act ever to prime the Billboard 200 after BTS‘ Proof and Stray Kids‘ Stray Kids Mini Album: Oddinary.