BLACKPINK’s Jennie has been named a headliner for Spain’s main music pageant, the 2026 Mad Cool Competition, changing into the one Okay-pop artist included in subsequent yr’s lineup.
Based on the lineup launched on Monday native time, Jennie will headline the July 9 present of the four-day pageant, which takes place from July 8 to 11 in Madrid subsequent yr.
She’s going to share the highest tier of the invoice with world acts Foo Fighters, Florence & the Machine, Twenty One Pilots and Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds. Jennie is the only Okay-pop performer invited to the 2026 version of the pageant.
Mad Cool Competition, launched in 2016, is one in every of Europe’s main summer season music occasions, that includes main artists throughout rock, indie, various, pop and digital genres. Previous performers embody Muse, Gracie Abrams, Olivia Rodrigo and Lizzo.
Jennie beforehand made waves in April when she grew to become the primary Okay-pop solo artist to carry out on Coachella’s Out of doors Theatre, one of many pageant’s largest phases, incomes world consideration for her commanding efficiency.
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