Blackpink to perform at Singapore’s National Stadium this November

K-pop girl group Blackpink will play two nights at the National Stadium in November as part of their highly anticipated Deadline world tour.

Event promoters LiveNation confirmed on May 27 that the quartet will have two shows - on Nov 29 and 30.

The announcement noted that Weverse presales of tickets would start on June 10 at 11am while the Visa Infinite pre-sale would begin at 11am on June 11.

General sales start on June 13 at 11am. The tickets will be sold on Ticketmaster.

In the initial dates and venues announced for the tour in February, it appeared that the quartet – made up of Jennie, Jisoo, Rose and Lisa – would not visit Singapore.

Superfans, known as blinks, here were cheering the news.

Masters student Jasmine Tok said that she would attend both shows if possible.

She said: “I’m honestly so excited about the news! I’m ready to fight the ticketing war... To be honest, if Blackpink weren’t coming to Singapore, I was ready to fly to South Korea.”

The 25-year-old flew to California to watch members Lisa and Jennie perform as solo artists at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 11 and April 13.

She queued at the music festival for almost five hours to be in the front row for Jennie’s performance.

Another fan Wenhao Tan, 27, who attended Blackpink’s 2019 and 2023 shows here, said: “I was so jealous that my friends were attending concerts like Lady Gaga’s but now it is my turn to enjoy the fact that Blackpink is in my area!”

The group’s world tour will kick off with a two-night gig at Goyang Stadium in South Korea on July 5 and 6 before travelling to the North American cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and New York. In Los Angeles, the quartet will perform at the 70,000-capacity SoFi Stadium.

After North America, Blackpink will head to Europe and play in Paris, Milan, Barcelona and London, before ending the tour in Tokyo with a three-night performance from Jan 16 to 18, 2026.

The group will also play in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila and Taiwan.

It will be Blackpink’s first world tour since the Born Pink tour, which ran from October 2022 to September 2023, and included a two-night stop at Singapore’s National Stadium where they played to 50,000 fans.

The group also played at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2019.

The quartet have not released a new album together since 2022’s Born Pink, but Rose recently told American magazine The Cut that they are working on new music.

The four members have been busy with solo projects.

Jisoo made an appearance at Amortage at Far East Malls, a pop-up concept store celebrating her debut solo mini-album Amortage in March, while Lisa held her fan meeting here last November.

This article was originally published in The Straits Times.