BLACKPINK Bring the Bangers to London’s Wembley Stadium: 7 Best Moments

On Friday night (Aug. 15), Wembley Stadium was bathed in pink light. If you’re one of the, conservatively, gazillion people who’ve watched Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters since its release, this could read like a bad omen. But this wasn’t the signaling of demons from the underworld getting their grips on unsuspecting K-pop stans, this was BLACKPINK making their long-awaited return to London with the Deadline World Tour, two years since their sold-out BST Hyde Park headline show in 2023. 

The Deadline World Tour, which wraps its Europe and U.S. leg with its stops at Wembley, came as something of a shock when it was announced in May. Back in 2023, BLACKPINK’s label, YG Entertainment, announced that each of the members — JENNIE, LISA, JISOO and ROSÉ — had ended their contract for individual work, but would still work together as BLACKPINK for group activities. Usually, that’s an unspoken agreement that life as a unit will wind down, and since then, the members have been going full throttle in their solo careers, each releasing albums and hitting iconic milestones (Rosé’s smash hit “APT,” featuring Bruno Mars, was the longest-running No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 in 2024, clocking up 12 weeks at the summit.)

A tour, then, seemed way off, especially since the group hadn’t released any music together since 2022’s Born Pink (they did eventually drop a digital single with the Euro banger-inspired, Diplo-produced “Jump” at the start of the U.S. leg of the tour). Still, we’re living in a post-Eras Tour world now, where a pop tour doesn’t have to necessarily coincide with an album release if you’ve got the back catalogue and ravenous stan appetite to fill a 70,000 capacity venue twice over. You’d be hard-pressed to find a BLACKPINK fan who doesn’t want to hear hits like “Kill This Love,” “BOOMBAYAH” and “DDU-DU DDU-DU,” even if they’ve been hearing them every tour since 2019. 

But with the inclusion of “Jump” and specific stages dedicated to each member’s latest solo work, there was just enough newness to the show to keep it fresh and exciting. Here are the best moments from BLACKPINK’s Deadline World Tour Wembley Stadium shows.