Stray Kids garners over 100 million streams on Spotify

Boy band Stray Kids' poster for its upcoming fan meet [JYP ENTERTAINMENT]

Stray Kids surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify last month, the boy band’s agency JYP Entertainment said Monday.

The band is continuously seeing popularity, breaking records on both YouTube and Spotify.

The band’s repackaged version of its first full-length album, titled “In Life” (2020), was listened to over 500 million times on Spotify in the month of December.

The music video for “God’s Menu” (2020), the lead track of Stray Kids’ first full-length album “Go Life” (2020), was viewed over 300 million times on YouTube as of Jan. 30, marking the first time for the band to achieve such milestone.

The band now has a total of five music videos with over 100 million views — “Miroh” (2019), “My Pace” (2018), “Back Door” (2020) and “Thunderous” (2021).

Stray Kids debuted in 2017 through JYP Entertainment’s reality show that was broadcast on Mnet. The band has eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin and I.N. It debuted as a nine-member band but Woojin left the band in October 2019.

The band recently announced that it will hold a fan meeting on Feb. 12 and 13 at Olympic Park’s Olympic Hall in Songpa District, eastern Seoul.

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]