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Global K-pop stars Stray Kids in UK festival debut ahead of ‘comeback’ album ATE’s release

  • With days to go before the release of ATE, their new EP, eight-member boy band play 100-minute set at BST Hyde Park Festival in London

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Stray Kids perform live at British Summer Time Hyde Park in London on July 14, 2024. “This is a career highlight,” the popular K-pop group said. Photo: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
Reuters

“This is a career highlight,” popular K-pop group Stray Kids said as they headlined the British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park Festival on Sunday.

The eight-man group from South Korea debuted in 2018 after being formed by JYP Entertainment through a reality show. They have won over fans around the world with their genre-mixing sound and hit songs such as “God’s Menu”, “S-Class” and “Maniac”.

Made up of members Changbin, Felix, Hyunjin, Lee Know, Han, Seungmin, Bang Chan and I.N, Stray Kids were making their UK festival debut.
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“It’s a really big festival and it’s a really big space. It’ll be really interesting to see how much the energy we bring to it will change that,” said Han shortly before the group took to the stage to perform a high-energy, one-hour-40-minute-long set in front of a crowd of thousands.
Stray Kids perform live at British Summer Time Hyde Park in London. Photo: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
Stray Kids perform live at British Summer Time Hyde Park in London. Photo: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP

Named by Time magazine as one of the Next Generation Leaders, Stray Kids placed third on recorded music industry body IFPI’s top 10 list of global recording artists last year. Their third Korean-language studio album 5-Star was last year’s second biggest-selling album globally, IFPI said.

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All eight members also walked the famed Met Gala red carpet in New York in May, wearing custom Tommy Hilfiger suits.

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