Blackpink In Your Area

On October 19, 2018, it was announced that the band would release their first Japanese studio album. It turned out that the album will be released in 2 versions on December 5th. On November 13, it was reported that the band collaborated with Shiseido to release their album. It also became known that the album will include Japanese versions of "Forever Young", "Really", and "See U Later", previously released singles. ^[one]

On November 22, it became known that the album would be released in digital stores on November 23, containing nine Japanese versions of the group's singles. ^[2] The album was released digitally on November 23, 2018. ^[3]

The album debuted at number 8 on the Oricon Albums chart on the first day and reached a peak at number 7 on the second day, on the third day the album fell to line 11 and 17 on the fourth day, and rose to number 10 on the fifth day, dropping to line 16 on the sixth day. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

The album debuted at number 9 on the Oricon Albums chart in the first week with 13,878 physical copies sold and dropped to 30 in the second week with 3,044 additional copies sold. The album debuted at number 91 on Billboard Japan's Top Download Albums , staying for two weeks before reaching a peak of 77 lines in the third week. ^{[8] [9]} He also debuted at number 12 in Billboard Japan's Hot Albums , placing at number 9 in the top selling album with 14,710 sold copies. ^{[10] [11]}