Stray Kids selected as TIME’s ‘Next Generation Leaders’

[OSEN=Reporter Ji Min-kyung] Stray Kids was selected as the ‘Next Generation Leaders’ by the American current affairs weekly TIME.

According to TIME’s announcement on its official website on the 5th (local time), Stray Kids were named among the next-generation leaders as of 2023. Since 2014, TIME has been announcing a list of ‘Next Generation Leaders’ by selecting young trendsetters and pioneers. Stray Kids is the second K-pop boy group to be selected in this category, following BTS.

Time introduced Stray Kids as “a group that achieved global success by embracing new sounds”and focused on their pre-debut and official debut process. He continued, “Stray Kids, who have pushed forward their unique musical direction, placed their mini album ‘ODDINARY’ at number one on the US ‘Billboard 200’ chart for the first time in March 2022. Support from the global fandom called STAY is also there. “It’s amazing,” he explained.

Member Changbin said through Time, “By continuously pioneering new musical themes, our goal is for our music to be known as a genre called ‘Stray Kids.’”

Stray Kids performed very well on stages around the world with their own music, firmly establishing themselves as a ‘global trend.’ ‘ODDINARY’ in March 2022, ‘MAXIDENT’ in October, and ‘★★★★★ (5-STAR)’ in June 2023, three consecutive works topped the ‘Billboard 200’. In particular, ‘★★★★★ (5-STAR)’ proved its long-running popularity by ranking on the chart for 15 weeks.

Recently, they went on stage as headliners at the famous music festival ‘Lollapalooza Paris’ and thrilled about 60,000 local audiences, and Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han of the group’s producing team 3RACHA performed at the ‘2023 Global Citizen Festival’ held in New York’s Central Park. appeared and exuded a special presence. Last September, they appeared for the first time at the ‘2023 MTV Video Music Awards’ held at the Prudential Center in New York, USA, and had the pleasure of being called the winner of the ‘Best K-Pop’ category with the title song ‘Special’ of their 3rd full-length album.

Stray Kids, who are successfully carrying out the ‘5-STAR Dome Tour 2023’ (Five Star Dome Tour 2023), a large-scale dome tour of 10 times in 5 cities in Korea and Japan as the ‘first of the 4th generation K-pop boy group’, sold out all tickets on the 11th. They will be making a comeback with their new mini album ‘樂-STAR’ on the 10th at 2pm (00:00 Eastern Time in the US). /mk3244@osen.co.kr

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