Jennie Watched The Weeknd From the Crowd in 2018. On the 8th, She Shared His Stage

Jennie walked out onto the cross-shaped runway at Goyang World Cup Stadium on the 8th and did something that would have seemed impossible to the trainee who once sat in those same seats: she performed One Of the Girls alongside The Weeknd in front of 54,000 people.

The appearance came on the second night of the Hyundai Card Super Concert 28, The Weeknd's first Korean shows in eight years. Jennie took the stage in a full-bang hairstyle and a sharp, understated look, and the two moved through the song with a ease that suggested they knew exactly where each other's notes would land. After the last bar, they hugged warmly before Jennie slipped off the stage and spent the rest of the evening watching from the audience section.

A full-circle eight years in the making

The backstory is what makes the moment land hardest. In 2018, Jennie attended The Weeknd's first-ever Korean concert at Gocheok Sky Dome as a fan. She was a newly debuted BLACKPINK member at the time, and The Weeknd's music had been part of her YG Entertainment trainee years: she and her BLACKPINK members once covered Can't Feel My Face on MBC Every1's Weekly Idol, a detail fans have been circulating online since the guest announcement dropped.

The night before, on the first date of the run, One Of the Girls was already on the setlist, and fans had been expecting Jennie to appear. When she didn't, the disappointment was palpable in real time across Korean fan communities. The second night's surprise entrance erased all of it.

About the song

One Of the Girls is the kind of collaboration that carries its own weight. The track, which Jennie recorded with The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp for the 2023 HBO series The Idol, spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Jennie's acting debut on a global platform, and the song became one of the more durable crossover moments of that year. Hearing it performed live, in Korea, with both principal artists on a stadium stage, gave it a new context entirely.

The Weeknd's pattern of local connection

The Weeknd has been deliberate about tailoring each stop on this tour to its audience. In Japan last month, he brought out singer Takahashi Yoko during a performance of Tokyo, a track that samples the Neon Genesis Evangelion theme she originally recorded. The Jennie collaboration follows the same logic: a guest whose connection to the song and to Korea is specific enough that the gesture reads as genuine rather than promotional.

The two-night Goyang run sold out both dates at 54,000 seats each, totaling 108,000 attendees. It was The Weeknd's first Hyundai Card Super Concert, the 28th edition of a series that has run for two decades.

BLACKPINK's growing footprint at Goyang

The stadium itself has become something of a recurring stage for BLACKPINK's global collaborations. Last April, Rosé appeared as a surprise guest during Coldplay's concert at the same venue, leading 50,000 fans in a mass sing-along of APT. BLACKPINK also opened their 2025 world tour DEADLINE at Goyang Stadium last July, becoming the first K-pop girl group to headline the venue for a standalone concert.

The through-line is hard to ignore. Two different BLACKPINK members, two different global superstars, the same 50,000-plus seat stadium. Whether that pattern is deliberate or simply a consequence of the venue being Korea's biggest outdoor concert space, it keeps reinforcing the same point: BLACKPINK's individual members are operating at a tier where these collaborations feel like parity, not a favor.

As for the first night at Goyang, The Weeknd delivered roughly 40 songs across just over two hours, working through a setlist that moved from the theatrical dread of his newer trilogy to the warmer, more familiar terrain of Starboy, Blinding Lights, Die for You and I Feel It Coming. He performed in a silver mask for the opening stretch before removing it mid-set, and at one point came down from the stage to high-five and embrace fans on the floor. He told the crowd that his very first stadium concert had been in Korea in 2018, and that the country had shown him an outsized amount of love from the beginning of his career in Asia. The 54,000 people inside the stadium on both nights appeared willing to continue that tradition.