BLACKPINK to release new music in August, plot enormous 2022 world tour
nme.comBLACKPINK will release new music next month, according to their record label, with a sprawling world tour also on the cards for later in the year.It’s unclear exactly what, or how much new material will be released in August, however in a press release from YG Entertainment (via Billboard), it’s confirmed that BLACKPINK are in the “final stages of recording a new album”.
The group – which consists of Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa – released their first full-length effort, ‘THE ALBUM’, in October 2020.YG went on to say that BLACKPINK’s forthcoming second album would kickstart “a continuous large-scale project which will extend through the second half of the year”, with the tease of “a lot of BLACKPINK-esque music [that] has been prepared over a long period of time”.
It’s implied that the group’s new album will be just one of several releases planned for the 2022.In addition to those “large-scale projects”, BLACKPINK will hit the road for an ambitious world tour – described by YG as “the largest world tour in the history of a K-pop girl group” – that comes in a bid to “expand their rapport with fans worldwide”.Word of BLACKPINK’s comeback first emerged back in April, when reports claimed that a new album could arrive “as early as June”.
YG shot down the rumours of an album releasing that soon, but confirmed that BLACKPINK were indeed preparing for a return.That return was also teased by Jennie during her guest appearance on the Game Caterers YouTube channel last March, where she said: “BLACKPINK is also making a comeback soon.
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