Tomorrow X Together, NewJeans light up Lollapalooza

K-pop

Published: 06 Aug. 2023, 16:59 Updated: 06 Aug. 2023, 17:15

Tomorrow X Together, NewJeans light up Lollapalooza

Girl group NewJeans at the Lollapalooza music festival [ADOR]

Tomorrow X Together and NewJeans rocked the stage at Lollapalooza 2023 in Chicago over the weekend.

NewJeans held its performance on Thursday, local time, opening up the four-day festivity alongside some of the biggest names in pop music, including headliners Billie Eilish and Karol G, as well as others in the lineup such as Noah Kahan, Carly Rae Jepsen, Diplo and Sofi Tukker.

NewJeans performed 12 of its most popular songs over the course of 45 minutes, including its debut hit "Attention" (2022) to latest releases "Super Shy," "ETA" and "Cool With You."

The five-member group just celebrated its first anniversary last month but is considered one of the biggest names in K-pop with its latest EP "Get Up" topping the Billboard 200 albums chart for the second time for a K-pop girl group last week.

"NewJeans performed for a crowd of 70,000 who sang along to all the band's songs during the live performance," the band's agency ADOR said in a press release. "Having topped the Billboard 200 with its second EP 'Get Up' and three of its lead tracks on the Hot 100 chart, NewJeans is proving its global influence is growing by the day."

Girl group NewJeans performs its songs at the 2023 Lollapalooza Chicago music festival on Thursday. [ADOR]

Boy band Tomorrow X Together headlines the Lollapalooza music festival for the first time for a K-pop boy band [BIGHIT MUSIC]

Tomorrow X Together, the second boy band that debuted under BTS's agency in 2019, took the main stage of the festival as the co-headliner of Saturday's lineup along with duo Odesza.

The five-member boy band performed 20 of its top songs including "0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You)" (2021), "Can't You See Me?" (2020) and "Good Boy Gone Bad" (2022). Tomorrow X Together also jointly performed "Happy Rools," released earlier this year, with hip-hop artist Coi Leray.

The band gave its first-ever live performance of "Do It Like That," a collaboration between the K-pop band and U.S. songwriters Jonas Brothers released on July 7.

Tomorrow X Together is the second K-pop act to perform as a headliner, followed by BTS member J-Hope last year.

BY YOON SO-YEON [yoon.soyeon@joongang.co.kr]