Lisa's Solo Career Averages 7.4, Under Blackpink's 7.9

Lisa's solo career now has a report card, and the final mark is 7.4 out of 10. The Bias List, a K-pop review site that grades singles on a ten-point scale, published a chronological run of every score it has given the Blackpink rapper's solo and collaborative tracks. The chart starts with 2021's "Lalisa" and ends with "SaWaDiKa," out at the beginning of September.

That 7.40 average is not bad. It's just conspicuously lower than the group she came from. When the same site ran the exercise for Blackpink in April, the four-piece landed at 7.88 — nearly half a point higher across a much longer catalogue. Same reviewer, same scale, same bias, so the gap is at least an honest comparison rather than two critics arguing past each other.

The sharper finding isn't the average, though. It's the shape of the line. The site flags two slump stretches — "Lalisa" through "Rockstar" from 2021 to 2024, then "Dream" through "SaWaDiKa" across 2025 and 2026 — and no peak period anywhere in between. Five years of releases, and the graph never really climbs.

Where the 7.4 Comes From

The tally covers solo singles plus collaborations with one other artist, the same rules the site used for the group. Her top-scoring track is "Born Again," the Doja Cat and Raye collaboration from February 2025. Her lowest is "Money" — the 2021 B-side that became her breakout, racked up enormous streaming numbers and got her onto Western radio playlists without a promotional push behind it.

Why Lisa's Solo Career Never Caught a Hot Streak

Most artists get a run. A few releases in a row where the writing, the production and the timing all line up. The Bias List summed up the absence of one in three words.

No imperial phases.

Two Slumps and Nothing in Between

Blackpink's own graph has a clear high point — "Playing With Fire" through "As If It's Your Last," 2016 into 2017 — followed by a dip from "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" to "Ice Cream." So the group's story is rise, peak, decline. Lisa's is flatter and stranger: two slow patches with a scattering of decent scores between them, and no stretch the reviewer was willing to call a peak.

Her Best Score Isn't a Solo Track

It's worth sitting with the fact that the highest mark went to a three-way collaboration. Commenters on the post picked up on it immediately. Whether that says something about her material or about how much a strong feature can lift a song is genuinely arguable — but it's the kind of pattern a chronological chart makes visible in a way that individual reviews never do.

The Charts Tell a Very Different Story

Critical scores and commercial results have been pulling in opposite directions here for years. "Alter Ego," her debut album, arrived on 28 February 2025 through her own label Lloud and RCA, and opened at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 with roughly 45,500 equivalent units — about 28,000 of them pure sales, enough for No. 1 on Top Album Sales. Lead single "Rockstar" hit the top five of the Billboard Global 200 and went No. 1 in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

She was also only the second Blackpink member to crack the Billboard 200's top 10, after Rosé managed it with "rosie" in December 2024. None of that is the profile of an artist in a slump. It's the profile of an artist whose audience and whose reviewers want different things.

What Canadians Can Actually Watch For

There's a quiet local footnote in all this. In May, Lisa turned up on "Goals" alongside Anitta and Rema for the official FIFA World Cup 2026 album — a tournament Canada co-hosted, with matches in Toronto and Vancouver. It's her most widely-heard credit of the year and it isn't on any of her own releases.

Three things land before New Year's. A documentary, "Always Lalisa," premieres on 12 October. The "Press Play" EP follows on 23 October through Lloud and RCA, with "SaWaDiKa" as its lead single — produced by Thom Bridges, written with Ojivolta, and shot in Bangkok by director Bang Jae Yeob. Then a Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace opens in November, which is the only one of the three that costs Canadian fans a flight and a hotel.

How Much Should One Critic's Number Matter?

Not much, on its own. A 7.4 from a single reviewer is one person's ear applied consistently over five years, and consistency is the only thing that makes it useful. What it does well is expose a pattern that fan discourse tends to bury: the releases have been steady, the reception has been solid, and almost nothing has been a genuine leap.

That's the thing to test in October. "Press Play" is being framed around her Thai roots rather than around a Western crossover, which is a real change in intent from "Alter Ego." If the EP finally produces the run of songs that graph has been missing, you'll hear it before any critic scores it. If it doesn't, the line stays flat — and the argument about Lisa stays exactly where it is.