Melon Music Awards, blackpink member Jennie made music history in georges hobeika couture

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – DECEMBER 20, 2025: BLACKPINK member Jennie attends the red carpet event of the Melon Music Awards 2025 (MMA2025) at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro-gu, Seoul. (Photo by Georges Hobeika all rights reserved).

Jennie wore a GEORGES HOBEIKA Couture look from the Fall/ Winter 2026 collection while attending the Melon Music Awards in Korea on December 20th, 2026.

At the 2025 Melon Music Awards, Jennie made history as the first soloist to win Record of the Year at the ceremony. Jennie’s Daesang for Record of the Year marks the first time a soloist has won the category in MMA history, a detail that carries more weight when considering Melon's methodology. The award specifically recognizes "the artist and producer behind the year's most remarkable musical accomplishment," judged 60% by download and streaming data, 20% by expert evaluation, and 20% by fan voting.
Her debut album Ruby, released in March through her self-founded label Odd Atelier and Columbia Records, sold over 661,000 copies in its first week—the highest first-week sales by a female K-pop soloist in 2025. The album debuted in the top ten in 19 countries and reached number three on the UK Albums Chart, the highest placement for any K-pop solo artist.
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Three tracks from Ruby charted simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 ("Like Jennie" at No. 83, "Handlebars" featuring Dua Lipa at No. 80, and "ExtraL" featuring Doechii at No. 99), making Jennie the first K-pop female soloist to achieve this feat. She also became the first and only female K-pop soloist to pass three billion Spotify streams in a single year, and won the Global Force Award at the 2025 Billboard Women in Music ceremony—the first Korean soloist honored at that event.
What makes Jennie's win particularly significant: she accomplished this outside the BLACKPINK ecosystem, proving the commercial viability of K-pop soloists operating independently while maintaining group affiliations.