BLACKPINK ranked first in the K-pop Girl Brand category of TenAsia’s September ‘Artist Top Ten’. Voting ran from September 11 to 24 on TenAsia’s voting service, with rankings determined 100% by app votes. Nominees were the top 20 acts on that month’s Melon chart and IDOLCHAMP monthly chart. The members’ solo activities have stood out recently. Rosé released the new single ‘New Trick’ on September 18, while Lisa and Jisoo dropped ‘SaWaDiKa’ and ‘Click’ respectively on September 4. Lisa also won Best Pop at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards on September 27 (local time) for ‘Dream feat. Kentaro Sakaguchi’. BABYMONSTER placed second after drawing 90,000 fans over two days at Kyocera Dome Osaka on September 22–23 and meeting a total of 200,000 fans across 11 shows in six cities on its Japan tour. Third-placed IVE will release a pre-release single on October 19 and return about eight months after its last release with the new EP ‘Looks Can Kill’ on October 26. IU, NiziU, Red Velvet, Hearts2Hearts, ISEGYE IDOL, KiiiKiii and NMIXX followed.