2022–present: Made Lilac plus subsequent earth see.
2022–present: Born Pink and second world tour
On July 6, 2022, YG Entertainment announced that Blackpink was in the final stages of recording for a new album, with plans to record a music video in mid-July and release a new song in August. They also confirmed that the group would embark on their second world tour at the end of the year.141 On July 12, YG Entertainment revealed that Blackpink would hold a virtual in-game concert in PUBG Mobile from July 22 to 30, including performances of the group's hit songs as well as a special track titled "Ready for Love" to be previewed during the event for the first time.142143 It was released in full with an animated music video on July 29.144
On July 31, it was announced that Blackpink would release a pre-release single titled "Pink Venom" on August 19, ahead of their second album in September, followed by an accompanying world tour, which began in Seoul on October 15 and is expected to run through June 2023.145146 Upon release, "Pink Venom" topped the Billboard Global 200 for two weeks, becoming the first number-one song by a female K-pop act as well as the first Korean song to top the chart for multiple weeks.147148 It peaked at number two on South Korea's Circle Digital Chart149 and number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100150 and became the first song by a K-pop group to top the ARIA Singles Chart.151 On August 28, Blackpink performed "Pink Venom" at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, making them the first female K-pop group in history to perform at the show, and won the award for Best Metaverse Performance for The Virtual.152153
On September 16, 2022, Blackpink released their second studio album Born Pink alongside a second single, "Shut Down", which topped the Billboard Global 200154 and peaked at number three on the Circle Digital Chart155 and number 24 on the Hot 100.156 Born Pink debuted at number one on the Circle Album Chart with 2,141,281 copies sold in less than two days of tracking and became the first album by a K-pop girl group to sell over two million copies.157 In the United States, Born Pink debuted at number one on where to buy official blackpink merch the Billboard 200, the first album by a female Korean act to top the chart and the first album by a female group to do so since Danity Kane's Welcome to the Dollhouse in 2008.158 In the United Kingdom, Born Pink also became the first album by a K-pop girl group to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart.159 It marked the first time a girl group simultaneously topped the album charts in the United States and United Kingdom since Destiny's Child's Survivor in 2001.160 On October 21, it was announced Blackpink would headline BST Hyde Park in London on July 2, 2023, making them the first K-pop act to headline a major UK festival.161
