Stray Kids has been nominated in two categories at the ‘American Music Awards(AMAs),’ one of the three major music award ceremonies in the United States.

According to AMAs official homepage on the 23rd(local time), Stray Kids was nominated in the ‘Favorite K-pop Artist’ and ‘Favorite Soundtrack’ categories for their album, which includes the OST for Netflix animation ‘Arcane’ Season 2.Following their attendance as a performer last year as the second K-pop group, they have reaffirmed their global influence by being nominated for the main prize this year.

Stray Kids has solidified their position by winning awards at numerous overseas award ceremonies, including MTV Video Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards.Recently, they won the ‘K-Pop Album of the Year ‘category for the second consecutive year at the’ 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards ‘and also won two awards at the Japan Gold Disc Awards.

Currently, they are on a world tour called’ dominATE’ with 55 performances in 34 regions.In their first Latin American tour that started in March, they performed 8 stadium performances in 5 cities including Santiago, Sao Paulo, and Mexico City, attracting an audience of about 400,000 people.

The tour will resume in Shizuoka, Japan in May and continue to Rome at the end of July.The total number of visitors for the entire tour is expected to reach approximately 2.2 million.




Reporter Lee Su com jin sujinl22@donga

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