The “Blinks” unofficially passed their bi-ping-bong light sticks to the “Rubies” on Sunday night (March 22) at the Complex Live music festival at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo.

Closing out two days of concerts surrounding the third annual ComplexCon Hong Kong fashion and pop-culture exhibition and marketplace, K-pop superstar Jennie united both sides of her fandom under one roof.

The Blackpink die-hards showed up alongside the K-pop it-girl devotees who want to dress like, talk like and swagger like the artist’s “Jennie Ruby Jane” persona created for her 2025 debut solo album, Ruby.

It was clear the sold-out crowd was still hungry for every facet of Jennie, even though just two months earlier, Blackpink’s Deadline Tour came to an end a short distance away at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium.

Hitting the stage at exactly 9:45 p.m. and wrapping by 10:15 p.m., the singer, dancer, actor, model and cultural force performed a tight 10-song, 30-minute set that drew heavily from Ruby. In a big night of firsts,

Jennie performed solo in China for the first time and became the first female headliner for Complex Live. Treading new ground — and edgier than many of her female K-pop counterparts, she frequently swears — Jennie’s choreography-driven R&B style weaves in hip-hop and club influences.

On this night, fans got what they wanted: a performance that felt like equal parts pulsating music video and runway show. Opening with “Mantra” and surrounded by a dozen male and female dancers, Jennie ignited a party onstage as she effortlessly moved through the slow-burn choreography that has become her signature — sharp, powerful hip-hop movements rounded out with fluid, sensual poses. Next came “Love Hangover,” followed by the J.Lo-esque party anthem “With the IE (Way Up),” where she sprinted down the stage, every move mirrored by her pack.

Jennie is also not afraid to stand alone in the spotlight, which she did during “Start a War.” In “Seoul City,” she wore a mini veil in tribute to the massive one she wore at the 2025 Melon Music Awards, inscribed with the Korean alphabet. Then the high-energy “ExtraL” and a solo “Handlebars” led into the live debut and theatrical apex of the night with “Dracula.”

Emerging in a dramatic black coat that landed somewhere between cape and couture, Jennie leaned fully into gothic fantasy. The energy spiked again with “Damn Right,” where her catwalk-like prowl turned every scene into a runway moment. She closed with the anthemic “Like Jennie,” popping on her Gentle Monster shades.

Of their biggest get yet,  Bonnie Chan Woo, CEO of Complex China, says, “Jennie’s live stages are always so captivating, and it’s clear how much creativity and dedication she brings to every performance. For ComplexCon Hong Kong, she went the extra mile by incorporating new, never-before-seen elements into her choreography and staging. Her presence in Hong Kong, even a year after her solo album release, meant so much.”

In 2024, ComplexCon arrived in Hong Kong as an offshoot of the U.S. event, which has moved between Long Beach, Las Vegas and Chicago over the past decade. While numbers are not yet in for 2026, the event is expected to break its previous sales and attendance records in part thanks to Jennie and this year’s artistic director, Labubu creator, and Hong Kong-born Belgian artist and illustrator Kasing Lung, who drew thousands to the Expo, waiting in line for hours for limited-edition Monsters merch.

Special items from the Virgil Abloh Archive — a collection of over 20,000 objects spanning Abloh’s creative practice — also drew major interest from the hypebeast community. Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF took over the Pigeons & Planes Stage, creating a collision of futuristic sound and viral culture.

Over three years, the festival’s concert series has brought major acts to China for the first time, including 21 Savage and Quavo. Last year, it made headlines worldwide as the stage for NewJeans’ final show, as the group was sued and disbanded by its record label, ADOR. 

Complex Live 2026 also featured rapper Yeat on Saturday, marking his China debut, along with Jay Park and ALLDAYPROJECT.

Jennie performs at the Governors Ball on June 7.

ARIRANG, the new album from BTS, tops this week’s fan-voted music poll.

Fans voted in a poll published Friday (March 20) on Billboard, choosing the seven-piece’s return LP as their favorite new release of the week.

ARIRANG is the poll leader in a week that also saw new music releases from Niall Horan, Lizzo, Paris Paloma and more. As the poll came to a close on Sunday, the K-pop superstars finished with an overwhelming 94% of the vote.

The album, a collection of 14 tracks via BigHit, was long-awaited by ARMY while the group formation of J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jung Kook, RM, Suga and V took a hiatus; the members were fulfilling mandatory military service in South Korea. BTS last released music in 2022 — the compilation project Proof, which launched at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart — but hadn’t actually released a full-length album of new songs in six years, since the 2020 release of Billboard 200 chart-topper BE.

ARIRANG features production from Diplo, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Mike WiLL Made-It and Ryan Tedder.

Besides unveiling the album this week, BTS also released a music video for the song “SWIM” co-starring actress Lili Reinhart. The cinematic visual was directed by Tanu Muiño.

Now that it’s all finally here, there’s still plenty to look forward to — like a globe-trekking stadium tour that kicks off in April.

Among the new releases trailing behind ARIRANG are a number of new singles, including Niall Horan’s “Dinner Party,” Lizzo’s “Don’t Make Me Love U,” Paris Paloma’s “Miyazaki” and Dermot Kennedy’s “Honest.”

See the final results of this week’s poll below.

Barry Keoghan is opening up about the online hate he received over his looks following his breakup with Sabrina Carpenter.

During his appearance on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up on Friday (March 20), the 33-year-old Irish actor revealed that he went into hiding after his 2024 breakup with the pop star.

“There’s a lot of hate online. It’s a lot of abuse of how I look,” Keoghan told host Ben Harlum. “I think I removed myself from online, but I’m still a curious human being that wants to go on and, if I attend an event or if I go somewhere, you want to see how it was received. And it’s not nice.”

He added, “It’s made me shy away, it’s made me really go inside myself and not want to attend places, not want to go outside.”

The Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man star also shared that he’s been avoiding public appearances because of ongoing harassment.

“It’s becoming a problem,” he said. “I don’t have to hide away because I am hiding away. I don’t have to go to places because I actually don’t go to places because of these things. But when that starts leaking into your art, it becomes a problem because then you don’t even want to be on screen anymore.”

Following his high-profile breakup from Carpenter in December 2024, Keoghan deleted his Instagram account. Shortly after, he issued a lengthy statement on X explaining his decision.

“I can only sit and take so much,” the actor wrote at the time. “My name has been dragged across the internet in ways I usually don’t respond to.”

He added, “I deactivated my account because I can no longer let this stuff distract me from my family and work. The messages I have received no person should ever have to read them. Absolute lies, hatred, disgusting commentary about my appearance, character, how I am as a parent and every other inhumane thing you can imagine.”

Keoghan and Carpenter dated for about a year. A source at the time of their split told People the couple decided to take a break due to their busy careers. The pair first sparked dating rumors in late 2023 before making their public debut at the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty. Keoghan also appeared alongside Carpenter in the music video for her Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single “Please Please Please,” featured on her album Short n’ Sweet.

While on The Morning Mash Up, Keoghan said he’s concerned about the impact the online criticism could eventually have on his 3-year-old son, Brando, whom he welcomed with former girlfriend Alyson Sandro.

“It is disappointing for the fans, but it’s also disappointing that my little boy has to read all of this stuff when he gets older,” he said.

Keoghan is starring as Ringo Starr in director Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-part Beatles biopic series. The series also stars Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Harris Dickinson portraying John Lennon. The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event is slated to hit theaters in April 2028.

Chappell Roan is responding to claims that her security left Brazilian soccer star Jorginho’s 11-year-old daughter in tears following an incident at a São Paulo hotel.

The 28-year-old pop star, who performed at Lollapalooza Brazil on Saturday (March 21), took to her Instagram Story Sunday morning to share her side of the story after Jorginho posted on social media that his daughter was “extremely shaken” when a security guard allegedly confronted her and her mother during breakfast, accusing the child of “harassment” simply for recognizing the singer and smiling.

“I’m just going to tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard — who is not my personal security,” Roan said, lying in bed at the start of her video.

“I didn’t even see,” she continued. “I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, I did not. No one came up to me. No one bothered me. Like, I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel as well.”

Roan added, “I did not ask the security guard to go up to talk to this mother and child. They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything. It’s unfair for security to just assume someone doesn’t have good intentions. When they have no reason to believe, because there’s no action even taken.”

The pop star concluded her message, assuring viewers, “I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. That is crazy. I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something, that you would do something and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”

In his post on Instagram, Jorginho said his wife, Catherine Harding, and 11-year-old daughter were staying at a São Paulo hotel ahead of Roan’s headlining set at Lollapalooza Brazil when they spotted the singer at the hotel restaurant during breakfast.

“My daughter, like any child, recognised her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her,” the midfielder shared, noting she didn’t approach Roan or ask for anything.

He claimed the encounter quickly escalated when a security guard allegedly confronted his family, speaking “in an extremely aggressive manner” and accusing his daughter of “disrespect” and “harassment,” even threatening to file a complaint with the hotel, leaving his daughter “extremely shaken” and in tears.

The incident follows Roan’s recent experiences with unwanted attention from fans and photographers. Earlier this month, she was seen self-documenting a chaotic encounter with autograph seekers and photographers in Paris.

“I’m just trying to go to dinner, and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me,” she said to her phone in the video, uploaded by an onlooker. “These are all the people that are completely disregarding my boundaries,” she added later in the clip.

While many have applauded Roan for standing up to paparazzi harassment, Boy George wrote on X in early March that she should “own your fame” and to “cheer up girl. The world is at your feet stop kicking it!” He added, “boundaries are boring” and encouraged her to “break them with the magic of kindness.”

Others have come to Roan’s defense. Folk-rock singer/songwriter Noah Kahan recently took to his Instagram Stories to support the “Pink Pony Club” singer. “Maybe they should just idk leave her alone?” Kahan wrote in his first post. In a follow-up video, he elaborated on his disdain for paparazzi behavior, sharing his own experiences: “These people literally find out where you’re staying, where you’re flying in to, where your team, family, whoever is staying. They are clearly not your fans, they just sit outside places so they can try to guilt you into signing sh–t so they can sell it.”

Tokischa shaved her head in front of a live audience at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday (March 21).

The Dominican artist — who’s yet to unveil a debut album, but has a number of entries on Hot Latin Songs as a lead artist and collaborator and on March 19 just released a new single, “Surfboard” — made the hair transformation during her opening set on FKA Twigs’ 2026 Body High Tour; she’s on night two out of a six-show run as Twigs’ supporting act. (Brutalismus 3000 and Eartheater will join the bill for the concert trek’s remaining U.S. dates.)

Billboard captured Tokischa’s bold moment at Madison Square Garden — see it below.

Tokischa’s forthcoming LP is called Amor & Droga. A release date is yet to be announced.

In August, she told Billboard, “This album really tells a very special story for me, a very difficult time in my life that shaped me and brought me to where I am now. It’s like a diary where I recount certain experiences that I’ve never talked about before. I feel like this was the best concept for a debut album — where I can let it all out.”

Fresh single “Surfboard,” expected to be featured on Amor & Droga, was produced by Skrillex. Tokischa dropped a music video for the track this week, after debuting the song live earlier this month. Fans catching her perform on FKA Twigs’ tour have been among some of the first to get to hear it in concert.