K-Pop Pulse

BLACKPINK's Deadline Tour Was a Stadium-Era Statement — and a 10th-Anniversary Launchpad Photo: Robbie Klinkenberg / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Before this month's anniversary celebrations, BLACKPINK already answered the decade question on stage. The group's Deadline World Tour — their first marketed as an all-stadium run — opened at Goyang Stadium on July 5, 2025 and closed at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Stadium on January 26, 2026, spanning seven months across Asia, Europe, and North America. The Numbers That Redefined the Ceiling The venue list reads like a map of the world's biggest stages. Per compiled tour data, BLACKPINK drew roughly 100,000 fans over two nights at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, about 110,000 across two nights at both Stade de France and London's Wembley Stadium, approximately 150,000 across three nights at Singapore National Stadium, and around 165,000 at Tokyo Dome across three January dates. Forbes reported that more than two millio...

JENNIE's "Dracula" Has Spent 46 Weeks on the Hot 100 — and a New EP Lands Right on Top of It Photo: 티비텐(@_TV10) / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) Among all the K-pop numbers on this week's Billboard charts, one is quietly extraordinary: JENNIE's "Dracula," her collaboration with Tame Impala, is holding at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its 46th consecutive week on the chart, according to Billboard data reported by The Korea Herald for the chart dated August 22, 2026. Forty-six weeks is nearly an entire year of relevance on America's most competitive singles chart. For context, most global pop singles — including plenty of No. 1 debuts — are gone from the Hot 100 within ten. A Korean soloist's track not only surviving that long but remaining inside the top ten this deep into its run places it in the same longevity conversation as the biggest Western crossovers of the decade. The timing of what comes next is where it gets strategically in...