As Jisoo inks a worldwide deal with WME, home to Bruno Mars, Billie Eilish, and Adele, BLACKPINK’s four members are quietly revealing four distinct blueprints for solo global stardom.
Two members of the same girl group, two major Hollywood talent agencies, two very different bets on what comes next. Within the same stretch of 2026, BLACKPINK‘s Rosé signed with CAA while her groupmate Jisoo signed with WME and the split says almost as much about where K-pop’s biggest export is headed as either deal does on its own.
According to industry sources cited by Variety and multiple outlets on November 8, Jisoo has signed with WME for worldwide representation, a move expected to open doors for international concerts, television roles, and film opportunities well beyond what a Korea-based management structure alone could negotiate.
Joining a Roster That Reads Like a Grammy Stage
WME is one of the “Big Four” talent agencies in American entertainment, representing artists across music, film, and television. Jisoo now shares a client roster with Bruno Mars, Rihanna, Billie Eilish, Coldplay, Olivia Rodrigo, Adele, and Justin Timberlake a lineup that signals less about any single project and more about intent. Agencies like WME don’t typically take on international pop stars as a courtesy; they take them on because they see a pathway to Western film casting, major festival slots, brand partnerships, and television opportunities that require boots-on-the-ground negotiation in Los Angeles and New York. For a K-pop idol looking to build an acting and music career that operates fluidly across Seoul, London, and Los Angeles, that kind of agency relationship is less a vanity signing and more an infrastructure investment.
Crucially, this doesn’t replace Jisoo’s existing structure it builds on it. She continues to run her solo career through BLISSOO, the independent label she founded in February 2024, while her BLACKPINK group activities remain under YG Entertainment. The WME deal is specifically scoped to international management and global expansion, meaning Jisoo is now operating with a three-tier structure: YG for group work, BLISSOO for creative control over her solo output, and WME for opening doors overseas. It’s a model that increasingly looks like the template other K-pop soloists may follow as the genre’s biggest stars outgrow what a single domestic agency can offer internationally.
A Tale of Two Signings
The timing invites comparison. Rosé’s move to CAA and Jisoo’s signing with WME both land in the same stretch of 2026, and while neither camp has framed it as a rivalry, the optics are hard to ignore: two members of the same group, choosing two different American powerhouse agencies, pursuing what look like two different versions of global crossover. Where that eventually leads overlapping red carpets, competing film offers, or simply parallel tracks that never intersect is one of the more interesting subplots to watch as BLACKPINK’s individual members continue building out solo identities distinct from the group’s.
The Music That’s Making the Case for Her
The WME deal isn’t landing in a vacuum it’s arriving on the heels of genuine chart momentum. Jisoo has been unusually active as a soloist throughout 2026, releasing the pre-release single “Click” in September before following it with “Addicted” on October 30. The latter, a moody, dance-pop track built around the sensation of being helplessly drawn to someone, immediately shot to No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs charts in 28 regions and topped the iTunes Worldwide Songs chart outright. “Click” had already made its own mark, hitting No. 1 on iTunes charts in nine regions and cracking the top 10 in 43 regions total. Both songs are being positioned as pre-release singles ahead of Jisoo’s first full-length solo album meaning the WME signing arrives at precisely the moment her solo musical identity is reaching its most commercially aggressive phase yet.
It’s worth noting that this run follows a stretch some outlets described as a commercial dip for Jisoo earlier in the year which makes the “Addicted” chart sweep read less like a continuation and more like a deliberate comeback arc, timed to coincide with exactly the kind of global visibility a WME deal is designed to amplify.
Acting Credentials to Match the Ambition
Jisoo’s case for international crossover isn’t built on music alone. She’s spent the past two years quietly assembling a genuinely varied acting résumé: the Coupang Play series Newtopia and the film Omniscient Reader in 2025, followed by a lead role as Seo Mi-rae in the Netflix romantic comedy Hello, My Boyfriend this past March a performance that demonstrated range well outside the brooding, high-stakes genres most idols-turned-actors gravitate toward first. Layer that onto her ongoing BLACKPINK world-touring schedule, and the picture that emerges is an artist deliberately diversifying across music, film, streaming television, and live performance simultaneously, rather than picking one lane and hoping the others follow.
What Comes Next
For WME, signing Jisoo is a bet on a performer who has already proven she can chart globally, act convincingly across genres, and headline arenas as part of the best-selling girl group in the world. For Jisoo, it’s the scaffolding that could turn a strong 2026 into an even bigger 2027 the kind of year where a debut full album, an expanding acting slate, and a world tour could all collide at once. BLACKPINK’s four members have spent the past two years proving that “solo era” doesn’t mean one thing in K-pop anymore. Jisoo’s WME deal just added another, very distinct, chapter to that story.