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The group Stray Kids has become the third K-pop group in history to have all of their songs streamed 10 billion times on Spotify.
Stray Kids recently achieved 10 billion cumulative streams worldwide for all of the group’s released songs registered on the global music streaming platform Spotify.This is the first for a 4th generation K-pop artist and the third highest achievement in K-pop history for a single artist, proving their immense popularity.
With this Top Stray Kids ranked 3rd on Spotify’s Global Top K-pop Artist of 2024 Artist the highest ranking for Spotify Global generation boy K pop and added to the great record of having 10 billion cumulative streams for all of the group of songs.
Having made a name for themselves in the global music market by debuting at number one on Billboard’s main chart, Billboard 200, for the first time ever, and having six consecutive albums entering the number one spot, they have added valuable meaning to their reputation as a ‘self-producing group’ with this achievement.
On May 26th(local time), meaningful news was delivered at the ‘2025 American Music Awards’, a major American music awards ceremony.The soundtrack album for the second season of the Netflix animation series ‘ARCANE’, which includes Stray Kids ‘song’ Come Play ‘released in October 2024, won the Favorite Soundtrack category.As the second K-pop group to attend the awards ceremony as a performer last year, they once again proved their worldwide influence with a song they directly participated in following their nomination this year.
Continuing the momentum, they will be holding stadium concerts in North America as part of their’ largest-scale ‘world tour,’ Stray Kids World Tour 〈 dominATE 〉 ‘.They opened the concert with a sold-out performance at Seattle’s T -Mobile Park on May 24, becoming the ‘first K-pop artist’ to do so, and will hold 13 stadium concerts in 10 regions in North America, including San Francisco on the 28th.This world tour is expected to mobilize a total of 2.2 million viewers, setting a new record for ‘the most attendees in K-pop history’ for a single tour.
Reporter Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com jhj@donga.com
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