BLACKPINK's JISOO Goes Darker on "Addicted" as Her First Album Takes Shape

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JISOO's new single opens with the crack of a lightning sound effect and, near the end, moves into a restrained, stripped-back rap, a vocal color she had not shown on record before, the Herald Business reported. "ADDICTED," out October 30 through Warner Records, is the second pre-release from the BLACKPINK member's first full-length solo album, following "CLICK" on September 4, per Sports Kyunghyang.

The album itself is still unnamed in the coverage of both singles, and no release date has been reported. What exists so far is two songs that point in different directions, and a solo career that has spent more than three and a half years getting to this record.

What JISOO built on "Addicted"

The song was composed by Jack Brady, Jordan Roman, Sol Was and Terius Gesteelde-Diamant, with lyrics by JISOO, Austin Wolfe and Tiina Vainikainen, according to Billboard Philippines. Her agency, Blissoo, billed it as a darker and more complex turn from "CLICK." Where the September single was about two people drawn together, Variety describes "ADDICTED" as "a moody dance-pop number about being powerless against attraction."

The video follows that shift. JISOO appears in black lace and a cat-ear headband and performs an underwater dance sequence, per the Herald Business, which also credits the choreography to Lee Jung. Another sequence, with short black hair and a red dress, draws on Ada Wong, the Resident Evil character.

The release-week numbers read differently by platform. Blissoo's count, reported by the Herald Business, has the song at No. 1 on iTunes in 28 regions and on the iTunes Worldwide Song Chart, with entries on Apple Music's top songs charts in 15 regions. The video reached No. 1 on YouTube's Worldwide Trending chart and its Global Daily Top Music Videos chart. On Spotify's Global Daily Top Songs chart the track entered at No. 195 on October 30.

As of this writing, the official video stands at about 23.9 million views on YouTube, with its biggest day at 7,048,744 on October 30, per Kworb. Kworb's Spotify tally had "ADDICTED" at about 7.6 million streams as of November 6. The Billboard Global 200 dated November 7 covers the tracking week before the single arrived, so its first reading there is still to come.

JISOO also took the song to television, performing it on MBC's Music Core on November 7 and SBS's Inkigayo on November 8. Her last Korean music show appearance before that week was "earthquake" on Inkigayo on February 23, 2025, about one year and nine months earlier.

From "FLOWER" to AMORTAGE: JISOO's solo arc

JISOO went solo in March 2023 with "FLOWER," from the single album ME. The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Global 200 and No. 1 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart, and ME became the first record by a female soloist in South Korea to top one million in sales, Variety reported. On Spotify, "FLOWER" debuted at No. 6 on the global daily chart with 4,674,337 first-day streams.

The following year she founded Blissoo, her own agency, and she signed a solo deal with Warner Records ahead of the February 2025 mini-album AMORTAGE. It reached No. 1 on iTunes' Top Albums charts in 45 regions, and lead single "earthquake" topped Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart. Later that year, "Eyes Closed" with ZAYN opened at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100, her first entry on the chart and, per the Herald Business, the one that made BLACKPINK the first girl group with all four members charting there as soloists.

This year has run on three tracks at once. She finished BLACKPINK's Deadline World Tour, headlined the Netflix series Boyfriend on Demand in March and made her first Met Gala appearance in May, per Variety. "CLICK" then reached No. 3 on the iTunes Worldwide Song Chart, took its first music show win on M Countdown and placed at No. 186 on Spotify's global daily chart on release day. Kworb had it at about 29.5 million streams as of November 6.

Asked about the album on Hot Ones, she described it as a step past the mini-album. "I made the effort to show a variety of charms," she told host Sean Evans. "Going from doing everything with a group to creating a solo mini album last year, I felt the need to further explore my true colors through this adventure I'm on."

What "Addicted" sets up for JISOO

The most recent development came a week after the single. Variety reported on November 6 that JISOO has signed with WME for worldwide representation. The arrangement does not replace Blissoo or Warner Records, per Sports Kyunghyang, and adds an agency for her work outside Korea.

Two things remain open as of this writing: the album's title and date, and where "ADDICTED" lands once Billboard counts its first full week. Both will say more about the next stage of her solo career than the opening-day figures can.