BLACKPINK star Jennie just turned a European festival weekend into K-pop history, stepping onstage as a solo headliner at Denmark’s Roskilde Festival and Poland’s Open’er Festival on back-to-back nights.
Her agency OA Entertainment says the shows made her the first K-pop solo artist to headline two major European music festivals in succession, at a moment when her Tame Impala collab Dracula is a Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit.
Jennie’s Historic Roskilde and Open’er Weekend
On Friday, July 3, 2026, Jennie headlined Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark, then flew to Gdynia, Poland, to close Open’er Festival on Saturday, July 4, completing an unprecedented back-to-back festival headline run for a K-pop solo act.
Roskilde is one of Europe’s largest music festivals and the biggest in the Nordic region, and materials for the 2026 edition highlight Jennie as the first K-pop artist to headline its main stage in Denmark.
Festival head of music Thomas Soenderby Jepsen said her inclusion “reflects current trends and reinforces Roskilde’s identity as a festival moving toward the future.” Open’er organizers similarly billed her as “one of the most influential female artists of this era.”
Across the two stages she performed solo favorites including Mantra, ExtraL, Starlight and Like Jennie, turning a European rock institution weekend into a showcase for her own catalog rather than BLACKPINK’s.
A Solo Set Built for Global Festival Stages
Set recaps from Open’er describe a roughly 17 song performance that leaned into her 2025 solo album Ruby and recent singles, mixing sleek pop with live band energy for a crowd more used to indie, rock and electronic headliners.
Songs like Like Jennie, Mantra, ExtraL, Starlight, the viral One of the Girls, and her Dracula remix with Tame Impala, which hit No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, anchored a set built to connect beyond language.
Crucially, Jennie kept the focus on that solo universe, with no BLACKPINK tracks in the Open’er setlist. She also premiered three unreleased songs, titled Lock It Down, Heaven and Less Than a Lover, teasing where her next chapter might head.
The approach builds on her headline set at New York’s Governors Ball in June, and together they turn the Jennie Roskilde Open’er headliner run into proof that her name alone can top multi genre posters.
From Europe to Lollapalooza: Jennie’s 2026 Festival Run
Roskilde and Open’er are not a one off, but the center of a 2026 festival circuit that swaps a K-pop arena tour for mixed bill events.
Alongside this weekend, Jennie has headlined New York’s Governors Ball and is confirmed for Mad Cool Festival 2026 in Madrid on July 9, Lollapalooza Chicago 2026 from July 30 to August 2, and Summer Sonic 2026 in Tokyo and Osaka in mid August.
For U.S. fans headed to Chicago, Lollapalooza will be the chance to see the same BLACKPINK free, Ruby centered production that just held its own on two of Europe’s major festival stages, complete with Hot 100 hit Dracula and the new songs first heard in Poland.