Rosé Age 2026: How Old Is BLACKPINK Star Rosé Now?

Last updated: 3 November 2026 | By Nathan Cole

Rosé is 29 years old in November 2026. The BLACKPINK singer was born Roseanne Park, Korean name Park Chae-young, on 11 February 1997 in Auckland, New Zealand, and she turned 29 on 11 February 2026. She turns 30 on 11 February 2027. That one date explains most of the confusion around her age online: older fan pages still print a traditional Korean age, and some profiles were written before her 2026 birthday and still say 28. The number that counts on official records in South Korea today is 29.

Rosé’s 29th year has been the busiest of her solo career. She performed “APT.” with Bruno Mars at the Grammy Awards on 1 February 2026, where the song was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. She did not win a Grammy — Kendrick Lamar and SZA took Record of the Year with “Luther,” Billie Eilish took Song of the Year with “Wildflower,” and Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande took Best Pop Duo/Group Performance — but four weeks later she won International Song of the Year for “APT.” at the BRIT Awards on 28 February 2026, the first BRIT win by any K-pop artist. In between those two ceremonies, BLACKPINK released their third mini album, DEADLINE, on 27 February 2026. In October 2026 she released “New Trick,” her first solo single of the year.

What follows answers the age question first, then fills in the life behind it: a childhood split between Auckland and Melbourne, a Sydney audition at 15 that beat about 700 other hopefuls, four years as a YG trainee, a debut at 19, and a solo run that started at 24 and produced one of the biggest pop songs of the decade when she was 27. Every date below carries a named source, and where sources disagree — on her net worth, on her exact trainee length, on her age at the audition — the disagreement is shown rather than smoothed over.

Who Is Rosé?

Rosé is a New Zealand and South Korean singer and songwriter, born Roseanne Park on 11 February 1997 in Auckland to South Korean immigrant parents. Her Korean name is Park Chae-young. She is the main vocalist and lead dancer of BLACKPINK, the four-member group formed by YG Entertainment that debuted on 8 August 2016 and became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. As a solo artist she records under The Black Label and Atlantic Records, after leaving YG Entertainment and Interscope for her solo work in 2023 while keeping her BLACKPINK activities with YG.

Her public identity has three layers that matter for the age question. First, she is a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised Korean artist, which is why her birthplace, her schooling and her accent all point to different countries. Second, she spent her teens inside the YG trainee system, so her career ages — audition at 15, debut at 19, solo debut at 24 — are unusually well documented. Third, her solo peak arrived late by K-pop standards: she was 27 when “APT.” came out in October 2024, and 28 when it carried her to three Grammy nominations. Most searches for her age land in one of those three stories.

She is also, by the numbers, the most commercially successful soloist BLACKPINK has produced so far. “APT.” peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 45 weeks on that chart, the longest run ever for a K-pop song, per Korea Portal’s March 2026 BRITs reporting. Her debut solo album rosie opened at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 102,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, the highest-charting album ever by a Korean female soloist in the United States, per Billboard reporting relayed by Soompi and The Music Universe in December 2024.

Early Life: Auckland to Melbourne

Rosé was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 11 February 1997, and she spent her first seven years there. In 2004, at age seven, her family moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she grew up. Biographical profiles list Kew East Primary School, which she finished in 2009, and Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College in Melbourne for her secondary schooling. She sang from childhood, learned guitar and piano, and performed in church choirs.

The Melbourne years explain a detail fans notice in interviews: her English carries an Australian accent, and she has described herself as shy about singing in front of others as a child. Her father, a lawyer by the reporting of several biographical profiles, was the one who pushed her toward the audition that changed her life. Her mother and her older sister Alice stayed in Australia when she left, and that distance — a 15-year-old moving alone to Seoul — is a recurring theme in her own accounts of the trainee years.

School ended early for her, and that is worth stating plainly because it shapes the timeline. She did not finish secondary school in Melbourne. Within about two months of the 2012 audition she had dropped out, signed with YG Entertainment as a trainee, and moved to Seoul. The decision was made at 15, with her family’s backing, and it meant her formal education stopped while her training started.

The 2012 Audition and the Trainee Years

In 2012, at her father’s suggestion, Rosé attended a YG Entertainment audition in Sydney, Australia. She ranked first among about 700 participants, a figure repeated across biographical profiles. She has said she first assumed her father’s idea was a joke, given the distance and the difficulty of becoming a singer overseas. Within two months she was in Seoul as a trainee.

One small disagreement sits inside this story: some profiles describe her as 15 at the audition and others as 16. She turned 15 on 11 February 2012, so 15 fits any audition held after that date, and this article uses 15 while noting the 16 figure appears in some fan-compiled profiles. The trainee length has a similar wobble: most sources say four years, while fan wikis variously print four years and two months or four years and nine months. “About four years” covers all of them honestly.

Those four years were not quiet. In 2012, the same year she arrived, she was given a feature on a track by labelmate G-Dragon, an early sign that YG rated her voice above the usual trainee level. She was the last of the four BLACKPINK members to be revealed, announced in June 2016, about two months before the group’s debut. By then she had spent roughly a quarter of her life in training, having arrived at 15 and debuted at 19.

BLACKPINK Timeline, Age by Age

BLACKPINK debuted on 8 August 2016 with the single album Square One, carrying the songs “Whistle” and “Boombayah.” Rosé was 19 years old — she had turned 19 six months earlier, in February 2016. The other members’ ages at debut, per KpopAnswers’ 2026 member-age guide, were Jisoo at 21, Jennie at 20 and Lisa at 19. Rosé and Lisa, born six weeks apart, were the group’s youngest members.

The group years that followed fill her twenties almost exactly. She was 21 when “Ddu-du Ddu-du” arrived in 2018 and 22 when Kill This Love came out in 2019. She was 23 when The Album, BLACKPINK’s first studio album, was released in October 2020. She was 25 when Born Pink arrived in September 2022, and 26 when the Born Pink world tour ran through 2022 and 2023. The group’s contract renewal with YG in late 2023 kept the group together while freeing the members to sign elsewhere for solo work — the arrangement that let her move to The Black Label and Atlantic.

The reunion chapter came at 28 and 29. The DEADLINE world tour, the group’s first all-stadium tour, opened at Goyang Stadium on 5 July 2025, when Rosé was 28, and closed at Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong on 26 January 2026, days before she turned 29. Along the way the group became the first K-pop girl group to headline London’s Wembley Stadium, in August 2025. The single “JUMP” premiered on stage at Goyang on 5-6 July 2025 and was released on 11 July 2025, debuting at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 and staying on the chart for 10 weeks, per January 2026 reporting. The third mini album DEADLINE, five songs with the title track “GO,” followed on 27 February 2026, the group’s first full-group release in about three and a half years.

Solo Career, Age by Age

Rosé’s solo debut came on 12 March 2021, when she was 24 years old. The single album -R- carried “On the Ground” and “Gone.” “On the Ground” entered the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at No. 70, a strong solo opening that made her the first BLACKPINK member to release solo music after Jennie’s 2018 single “Solo” — Jennie had gone first, but Rosé’s solo debut was the group’s second.

She was 27 when the solo career changed scale. “APT.,” her collaboration with Bruno Mars, was released on 18 October 2024 as the lead single of her debut solo album. The song debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and later peaked at No. 3, making her the first K-pop female act with a top-five Hot 100 entry, per Billboard reporting relayed by Wikipedia’s rosie album page. It topped the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts, South Korea’s Circle Digital Chart, the Billboard Japan Hot 100, the New Zealand Singles Chart and Australia’s ARIA Singles Chart. It later logged a 45-week Hot 100 run, the longest ever for a K-pop track.

rosie itself arrived on 6 December 2024, when she was still 27, released by The Black Label and Atlantic Records. The 12-track album, which she co-wrote and executive-produced, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 102,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, and at No. 4 on the UK Official Albums Chart. Its other singles were “Number One Girl” (22 November 2024) and “Toxic Till the End” (6 December 2024), which debuted at No. 90 on the Hot 100 and gave her two solo songs on that chart at once — a first for a female K-pop soloist, per Soompi’s December 2024 chart reporting.

The awards followed at 28 and 29. “APT.” won two trophies at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2025, including Song of the Year. At the Grammy Awards on 1 February 2026, when she was days from turning 29, she performed “APT.” with Mars — the first solo K-pop star to perform at the Grammys, per NME’s February 2026 report — and was nominated in three categories without winning any. On 28 February 2026, at 29, she won International Song of the Year at the BRIT Awards in Manchester, the first BRIT win by a K-pop artist, accepting in person and thanking Mars and her BLACKPINK bandmates.

Korean Age Explained: Why Some Pages Say 30

The confusion around Rosé’s age comes from Korea’s old counting system. Under the traditional system, called se-neun nai, a baby was counted as one year old at birth and everyone gained a year on 1 January, regardless of their birthday. Under that system Rosé would have been 30 for all of 2026: 2026 minus 1997, plus one.

That system no longer applies to official use. On 28 June 2023, amendments to South Korea’s General Act on Public Administration and Civil Act took effect, making international age the default for legal and administrative purposes. Under international age, the count starts at zero at birth and adds one on each birthday — so Rosé turned 29 on 11 February 2026 and stays 29 until 11 February 2027. Some fan pages still print a “Korean age” figure, and some of those print 29, which is neither the traditional count (30) nor the international count for the whole year — it is simply 2026 minus 1997, the year-age shortcut. If a page says Rosé is 30 in 2026, it is using the old traditional count. If it says 29, it is using the current standard.

The practical rule for readers is simple: for anything official, and for this article, use 29 in 2026 and 30 from 11 February 2027. The old system survives socially in some settings, and a few rules — school entry, military service, the alcohol purchase age — still count by birth year rather than birthday, but none of those change Rosé’s age as reported here.

How Tall Is Rosé?

Rosé’s height is listed as 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) across K-pop profile trackers, including KpopAngel’s 2026 profile. That is the figure most age-and-height searches return, and it is consistent across the profiles checked for this article. Two cautions apply. First, no verified independent measurement of her height has been published — the number comes from agency and profile listings, not from a measured record. Second, profile heights in K-pop are sometimes rounded or carried forward for years without re-checking, so 168 cm should be read as “listed at 168 cm” rather than as a precise measurement.

Inside BLACKPINK, the listed heights put her in the middle of the group: Jisoo and Jennie are commonly listed around 162-163 cm, and Lisa around 166-167 cm, with Rosé the tallest of the four at 168 cm. Those comparisons come from the same profile-listing tier of evidence, so they carry the same caution. What is solid is that no source disputes the 168 cm listing in a meaningful way — the disagreement in Rosé’s numbers is about money, not height.

Family and Personal Life

Rosé’s older sister is Alice Park, about four years her senior, born in 1993. Alice studied law at the Australian National University, graduating in 2017, and works as a lawyer, following their father, who is also a lawyer by biographical reporting. Alice keeps a lower public profile than her sister but has a large social media following of her own — Koreaboo’s April 2023 reporting put her Instagram following above one million — and she appears in Rosé’s social media from time to time. The two sisters are close, and Alice has attended Rosé’s shows and events.

Her parents are South Korean immigrants who moved the family from Auckland to Melbourne in 2004. Rosé has spoken about how hard the separation was when she moved to Seoul at 15, and about her family as the anchor she returned to between tours. She keeps her romantic life private: no reliable report as of November 2026 shows her married or in a confirmed public relationship, and this article does not repeat dating rumours, which fan outlets circulate without confirmation.

Her personal interests, as documented in profiles and interviews, include guitar and piano, which she learned as a child in Melbourne, and a long-standing love of food and cooking content — she has hosted cooking segments and talked about baking as a way to unwind between schedules. She is also known among fans for her close bond with her BLACKPINK bandmates, a relationship she has described as family-like after a decade of living, training and touring together.

Net Worth and Endorsements

Rosé’s net worth in 2026 is estimated in a wide range, and the spread itself is the story. Celebrity Net Worth prints $60 million for her, a figure repeated by Nairobi News’ 2026 profile. Other 2026 trackers print far less: $40 million (People and Media, Industry Hackerz), $35 million (How Much Are They Worth), $25-30 million (several 2026 roundups) and $20-23 million (Winenfood’s modelled estimate). This article therefore uses $20-60 million as the honest range, with Celebrity Net Worth’s $60 million as the top end. None of these figures comes from disclosed contracts — they are modelled from music income, touring, royalties and endorsement deals, minus the taxes and costs that are never public.

The income streams behind the range are concrete. BLACKPINK’s touring is the group’s biggest earner: the DEADLINE tour played 33 stadium shows in 16 cities between July 2025 and January 2026. Her solo royalties jumped with “APT.,” a song she co-wrote, which spent 45 weeks on the Hot 100 and topped global charts, plus the rosie album’s 102,000-unit debut week. A 2026 report also linked her to a high-value Seoul residence, a penthouse-level unit at Yongsan Prugio Summit reported at roughly 10 billion won (about $7-8 million), though the outlet itself noted it could not confirm whether she owns it outright or holds it on a long lease — so it is not counted as a confirmed asset here.

Her endorsement portfolio is long and, unlike the net worth figure, well documented. Saint Laurent named her a global ambassador in 2020 — the house’s first global ambassador in nearly 60 years, per Lifestyle Asia — and she attended the 2021 Met Gala as creative director Anthony Vaccarello’s guest. Tiffany & Co. named her a global ambassador in 2021, fronting the HardWear campaign and later the Tiffany Lock line, including a limited Rosé edition. Sulwhasoo named her global ambassador for its Rebloom campaign, Rimowa named her a global ambassador in 2023 for its “Never Still” campaigns, and Puma named her a global ambassador in 2024. In 2026 the list grew: Levi’s named her a global brand ambassador in March 2026, she fronted its “Keep It Loose” push in August, and Levi’s x ROSÉ, a limited collection with a handwritten backpatch, launched in September 2026. YSL Beauty added her as a brand ambassador in January 2025. All four of the names in the brief — Saint Laurent, Tiffany & Co., Sulwhasoo and Rimowa — check out, and Levi’s and Puma are verified 2024-2026 additions.

What Is Rosé Doing in 2026?

As of November 2026, Rosé is 29 and in the busiest solo stretch of her career, with no new BLACKPINK group tour announced — GrandCircles’ October 2026 tour check noted no new dates had been published by the group or YG as of 4 October 2026, and a September 2026 comeback roundup confirmed no group release was scheduled beyond DEADLINE. Her 2026, in order, ran like this: the Grammy performance and three nominations on 1 February; the DEADLINE mini album on 27 February; the BRIT Award win on 28 February; a Saint Laurent look with Tiffany & Co. jewellery at the 2026 Met Gala; the Levi’s ambassadorship in March; “Messy,” her song for F1: The Movie; “On My Mind,” her collaboration with Alex Warren; and “New Trick” in October 2026, her first solo single of the year, co-produced by Amy Allen — who co-wrote “APT.” — and Andrew Wells, with a video directed by Dave Meyers and filmed entirely on the iPhone 18 Pro for Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” campaign.

The “New Trick” release matters for the age question because it resets the “what is she doing now” answer that age searches usually want next. She is not between projects: she closed a stadium tour in January, collected a BRIT in February, fronted a Levi’s collection in September, and released new solo music in October, all at 29. The next fixed date in her calendar is her 30th birthday on 11 February 2027. No solo album for 2026 has been announced beyond the “New Trick” single, and no BLACKPINK group date has been announced past the DEADLINE tour — anything claiming otherwise is speculation until YG or her own labels confirm it.

BLACKPINK Members’ Ages Compared

Rosé is the second-youngest member of BLACKPINK, six weeks older than Lisa. The table below gives each member’s birth date and age in November 2026, when all four have had their 2026 birthdays.

The gap between the oldest and youngest member is just over two years — Jisoo, born January 1995, to Lisa, born March 1997 — which is why the group reads as a single generation despite the birth-order roles. Rosé and Lisa share the same age in November 2026 (both 29), though Rosé is six weeks older and turns 30 six weeks earlier, on 11 February 2027, while Lisa turns 30 on 27 March 2027.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Reporting

Birth date, birthplace and early life: Wikipedia’s Rosé profile (born 11 February 1997, Auckland; moved to Melbourne at seven; Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College; 2012 Sydney audition, first of about 700; four years as a trainee; last member revealed June 2016) and 2026 birthday reporting from Bombay Times (29th birthday, 11 February 2026) and KpopAnswers’ March 2026 member-age guide (debut ages: Jisoo 21, Jennie 20, Rosé 19, Lisa 19). Group timeline: Wikipedia’s Deadline World Tour page (5 July 2025 – 26 January 2026, 33 shows, 16 cities, first all-stadium tour, Wembley headline) and January 2026 reporting on the DEADLINE mini album (27 February 2026, five songs, title track “GO”) and “JUMP” (11 July 2025, Billboard Hot 100 No. 28, 10 weeks). Solo career: Wikipedia’s rosie album page (6 December 2024, The Black Label / Atlantic; “APT.” 18 October 2024, Hot 100 peak No. 3; Billboard 200 No. 3, 102,000 units) and Soompi’s December 2024 chart reporting (two Hot 100 entries at once, a first for a female K-pop soloist). Awards: NME, February 2026 (Grammy performance, three nominations, no wins; winners “Luther,” “Wildflower,” “Defying Gravity”) and Music Week / Korea Portal, February-March 2026 (BRIT Awards, 28 February 2026, International Song of the Year, first K-pop BRIT win; “APT.” 45-week Hot 100 run; two MTV VMA wins, September 2025). Korean age: Seoul Foreign Portal and Ministry of Government Legislation guidance (international age standard from 28 June 2023). Height: KpopAngel 2026 profile (168 cm / 5 ft 6 in). Family: Koreaboo, April 2023 (Alice Park, born 1993, law graduate 2017, lawyer) and IconPolls’ biography profile. Net worth: Celebrity Net Worth ($60 million) against People and Media ($40 million), How Much Are They Worth ($35 million) and Winenfood ($20-23 million) — the spread is reported, not resolved. Endorsements: #legend’s 2026 brand-partnership guide (Saint Laurent 2020, Tiffany & Co. 2021, Rimowa 2023, Puma 2024, Levi’s March 2026, Levi’s x ROSÉ September 2026, 2026 Met Gala look, YSL Beauty January 2025), Koreaboo’s December 2023 campaign count (Saint Laurent, Tiffany & Co., Rimowa, Sulwhasoo) and Marketing-Interactive (Sulwhasoo Rebloom ambassadorship). 2026 solo activity: MIXfm / Basin Mediactive, October 2026 (“New Trick,” first solo release of 2026, Apple “Shot on iPhone” video directed by Dave Meyers, “Messy” for F1: The Movie, “On My Mind” with Alex Warren). Reporting window: October-November 2026. Where sources disagreed — net worth ($20-60 million), audition age (15 vs 16), trainee length (about four years, with fan-wiki variants) — the disagreement is noted in the text, and the Seoul residence report is excluded from confirmed assets because its own source could not confirm ownership.