Stray Kids Wins ‘K-Pop Album of the Year’ at US iHeartRadio Music Awards for 2nd Consecutive Year

The group Stray Kids won the ‘K-Pop Album of the Year’ category at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards. This is their second consecutive year of winning the award.

Stray Kids were named the winner of ‘K-Pop Album of the Year’ for their mini album ‘ATE’ at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, USA on the 17th (local time). Stray Kids, who lifted the same trophy in the same category last year with their third regular album ‘★★★★★ (5-STAR)’, have won for two consecutive years, raising their reputation as ‘Global Top Artists’.

The iHeartRadio Music Awards is a music awards ceremony hosted by iHeartRadio, the largest online radio station in the United States, since 2014. It presents awards to the artists and songs that have been most streamed on the station and application throughout the year.

‘ATE’, released in July of last year, is a work that contains Stray Kids‘ grand ambition to ‘devour the music industry’. The album debuted at number one on Billboard’s main chart, Billboard 200, selling 232,000 album units in the United States in its first week of release, making Stray Kids the first group in the world to have five consecutive works enter the chart at number one, from their 2022 debut, ‘ODDINARY’, to ‘ATE’. The title song ‘Chk Chk Boom’, which is their third entry into the Billboard ‘Hot 100’ and their highest ranking of 49th, was nominated for the ‘K-Pop Song of the Year’ at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards.

They have recently been demonstrating their presence at various overseas award ceremonies, such as being selected as ‘Top Global K-Pop Artist’ at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards, ‘Music Video of the Year’, and ‘Best 3 Albums’ at the 39th Japan Gold Disc Awards.

Meanwhile, Stray Kids will release their new digital single ‘Mixtape: dominATE’ on Friday, March 21 at 1 p.m. (0:00 a.m. EST). As a surprise gift to fans ahead of their 7th debut anniversary, the stage for the included unit songs will be revealed for the first time during the world tour that will resume in Santiago on March 27-28.

Jung Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com

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