BLACKPINK’s Jennie Pronounces Solo Album ‘Ruby’

Jennie, a founding member of K-pop quartet BLACKPINK, has formally introduced her debut solo album, Ruby.

Slated for unencumber on March 7, the extremely expected challenge boasts an excellent lineup of collaborators, together with Infantile Gambino, Dua Lipa, Doechii, Dominic Fike, FKJ, and Kali Uchis.

The album and its star-studded roster of visitor artists had been printed at the singer’s social media on Jan. 21 by way of a teaser video and pre-order release via her impartial label, Unusual Atelier.

Ruby will function 15 tracks, together with her October 2024 unmarried “Mantra,” which reached No. 2 at the Billboard World Excl. U.S. chart and No. 3 at the Billboard World 200.

The one marked a turning level in her solo occupation, surroundings the level for what Jennie in the past described as her “album adventure.”

In a up to date interview with Billboard, Jennie mirrored at the deeply private procedure of constructing Ruby. “It’s now not great to be somebody who’s all the time like, ‘I’m sorry, I will be able to’t say anything else,’ ” she mentioned of the challenge she started in early 2024. “I need to say I’m nearly there.” Acknowledging the demanding situations she confronted alongside the best way, she added, “I’m simply going to mention, ‘I don’t do smartly with time.’”

Since debuting with BLACKPINK in 2016, Jennie has been a part of their stratospheric upward push to international repute. BLACKPINK’s groundbreaking achievements come with changing into the primary K-pop lady staff to accomplish at Coachella in 2019 and the primary South Korean lady staff to most sensible the Billboard 200 with their 2d album, Born Red, in 2022.

In past due 2023, Jennie introduced Unusual Atelier and partnered with Columbia Information, giving her the inventive freedom to pursue her solo aspirations.

“Whilst I used to be on my closing BLACKPINK excursion, I couldn’t prevent myself from beginning to plan forward,” Jennie mentioned. “I indexed out the issues that I need in my existence and began pinpointing, or prioritizing, what’s my very subsequent step. And in an instant, I used to be like, ‘I nonetheless haven’t achieved the dream of liberating a solo album.’ I sought after to meet myself by means of reaching that purpose.”

Along with liberating long-awaited solo song, Jennie additionally made her performing debut again n 2023 within the HBO drama sequence The Idol and used to be named an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire. In March 2024, she additionally teamed up with Brockhampton’s Matt Champion to unencumber a collaboration, titled “Gradual Movement.”