SEOUL — OCT 23
Hyunjin to limit movement during the Japan shows while treating a shoulder issue
JYP Entertainment said via the group's official X account that Hyunjin is being treated for pain around his right shoulder, and his doctor advised avoiding strain on it and pairing treatment with rehabilitation. His movement may be restricted at this week's RUN IT JAPAN dates of the world tour and possibly in other upcoming activities for now. The agency apologized to STAY for the sudden notice and said his recovery comes first.
Summarized from Soompi by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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UNITED STATES — OCT 18
'THIS & THAT' won't leave the Billboard 200: Stray Kids hit No. 29 in week nine
Nine weeks after debuting at No. 1 in August, Stray Kids' 10th mini album THIS & THAT climbed back to No. 29 on the latest Billboard 200. Soompi notes it is the best ninth-week placement for any of their albums. The release also returned to the top of World Albums for a seventh non-consecutive week and rose to No. 3 on Top Album Sales, while the group itself sits at No. 29 on the Artist 100, logging its 151st week on that chart.
Summarized from Soompi by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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K-WIRE NETWORK — OCT 14
K-Trail Seoul is live: a free K-pop pilgrimage map for Seoul, Busan, Goyang, Incheon and Jeju
K-Wire Network's sister project, K-Trail Seoul, is officially live and free to use — no account, no paywall. It's an offline-ready map of real K-pop pilgrimage spots: agency HQs, concert and broadcast venues, cafes and culture stops, plus curated hotels and restaurants near the busiest clusters (Seongsu, Hongdae, Myeongdong, K-Star Road, Jamsil), now covering five cities — Seoul, Busan, Goyang, Incheon and Jeju. It installs straight to your home screen as an app (Share → Add to Home Screen on iOS, the install banner on Android/desktop), saves map areas for offline use before you lose signal, and lets you save and share individual spots. With Fanomenon set to bring a wave of international fans to Korea in December 2027, this is the time to start building your own trail.
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SEOUL — OCT 7
JYP’s Park Jin-young defends "Fanomenon" trademark filing, explains agency selection at National Assembly hearing
Park Jin-young, co-chair of the Presidential Committee on Popular Culture Exchange, appeared before the National Assembly’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee to explain the process behind "Fanomenon" — a government-linked joint venture between HYBE, JYP, SM and YG for an annual K-pop awards show, concert series and exhibition set to debut in Seoul and Gyeonggi in December 2027. Park told lawmakers that his solo filing of the "Fanomenon" and "Pandemonium" trademarks overseas, ahead of any transfer to the joint entity, was a rushed but necessary step to stop the names from being taken by someone else before the joint venture could register them itself. On the selection of the four agencies without a public tender, Park argued the arrangement was a sacrifice rather than a favor, noting the four labels stood to earn two to three times more running individual concerts on their own. Lawmakers also raised questions about the committee’s projected 520,000 visitors and roughly 1 trillion won in economic impact, which organizers have described as provisional, midpoint estimates.
Summarized from the Korea JoongAng Daily by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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LOS ANGELES — OCT 2
Stray Kids join BTS in skipping Grammy submissions over the new "Asian Pop" category
JYP Entertainment confirmed October 2 that Stray Kids declined to submit their work for the 69th Grammy Awards (February 2027), joining BTS's non-submission announced back on July 29. Both groups are responding to the Recording Academy's new "Best Asian Pop Music Performance" category, created for songs with significant Asian-language lyrics — a rule that leaves English-language K-pop tracks ineligible and also ruled out BLACKPINK. The Academy met with Asian music industry figures, including HYBE, on October 1 and decided the next day to keep the category as designed. Stray Kids, whose eight members were all appointed Recording Academy voting members this year and who'd been named frontrunners for the new category, said they "had never set awards or records as the goal of their activities." BTS said they hoped music would be "heard and embraced for what it is, beyond region or language." The statements land as Stray Kids' EP This & That sits at its ninth Billboard 200 No. 1.
Summarized from allkpop by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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MEXICO CITY — SEP 25
South Korea's president and First Lady join the STRAYCITY crowd, with J.Y. Park by their side
President Lee Jae Myung and First Lady Kim Hye Kyung attended the Mexico City STRAYCITY show as part of the president's state visit, joined in the balcony seats by JYP Entertainment's J.Y. Park. President Lee greeted ten invited Mexican teenagers in Spanish and recalled never getting to attend a big concert as a kid, while the First Lady surprised J.Y. Park by using Bang Chan's fan nickname "Bang-beoji." The visit followed Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly confirming the group would stop by the National Palace, calling them "kind of like BTS, but younger."
Summarized from allkpop by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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BUENOS AIRES — SEP 15–16
Stray Kids honor a fan who died before their Buenos Aires show
A teenage fan collapsed outside the STRAYCITY venue in Buenos Aires on Sept. 15 and passed away at a nearby hospital. The group and audience observed a moment of silence before the concert, and the members later sent the fan's family a handwritten letter in Korean along with flowers, writing, "we know that no words can fully comfort the family in the grief" and that they hoped the fan "may rest in peace."
Summarized from allkpop by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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BUENOS AIRES/MEXICO CITY — SEP 14–25
STRAYCITY tickets sell out in hours across Latin America; Mexico City adds a second night
Both Buenos Aires STRAYCITY shows sold out roughly three hours after going on sale. The first Mexico City date (Estadio GNP Seguros, Sept. 25) sold out within minutes, prompting organizers to add a second night on Sept. 26 — which also sold out. Mexican ticket pricing drew complaints filed with the consumer-protection agency Profeco over unclear tiered pricing within single-named seating sections.
Summarized from Latin Times and Billboard by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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BUENOS AIRES — SEP 14–15
STRAYCITY tour reaches Argentina, with Mexico City next on the calendar
STRAYCITY — the Latin America festival run headlined by Stray Kids alongside NEXZ — plays two nights at the Hipódromo de San Isidro on Sept. 14 and 15, its first-ever stop in Argentina. The circuit's next confirmed date is Mexico City's Estadio GNP Seguros (formerly Foro Sol) on Sept. 25–26. STRAYCITY is a separate festival run from World Tour "RUN IT," which resumes in Osaka on Sept. 19–20.
Summarized from Rio Times Online by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — SEP 11–12
Stray Kids become Rock in Rio's first-ever K-pop headliner
Closing out Palco Mundo on the night of Sept. 11 (the set ran past midnight local time into Sept. 12), Stray Kids became the first K-pop act to headline Rock in Rio in the festival's 41-year history, playing to a reported 130,000-plus crowd. The performance capped the opening leg of "STRAYCITY," the group's Latin America festival run, which also stopped in Bogotá on Sept. 9.
Summarized from InMusic Blog by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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SEOUL — SEP 3
Felix goes solo with "Slow It Down," the second surprise release in the SKZ-PLAYER series
Felix self-composed and wrote "Slow It Down," released Sept. 3 as the second installment of "SKZ-PLAYER" — a rolling series of surprise solo drops that began with Han's "back to life" in June. The music video co-stars actress Roh Yoon-seo, and the single reportedly climbed to No. 1 on YouTube's worldwide trending videos chart shortly after release.
Summarized from Korea JoongAng Daily by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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NAGOYA — SEP 5–6
World Tour "RUN IT" lands in Nagoya for two nights, continuing the Japan dome leg
Stray Kids played two nights at Vantelin Dome Nagoya, the next stop on the Japan leg that followed the group's milestone two-night run at Tokyo National Stadium (Aug 29–30) — the first solo concerts by a foreign male artist at that venue, drawing roughly 140,000 fans across both nights.
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BOGOTÁ — SEP 9
Next up: World Tour "RUN IT" touches down in Bogotá
Two days out from the Japan dome leg, the tour's next confirmed stop is Vive Claro in Bogotá, Colombia on Sept. 9 — the latest city added to the rolling World Tour "RUN IT" schedule.
Compiled from official World Tour "RUN IT" notices by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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TOKYO — AUG 29–30
First international male act to headline Tokyo's National Stadium — and the full RUN IT tour map lands
Two nights at Japan National Stadium (MUFG Stadium) made Stray Kids the first international male act to stage a solo concert there. Alongside the milestone, World Tour "RUN IT" now has a confirmed first leg of 9 cities and 18 shows: Nagoya (Sep 5–6) and Osaka (Sep 19–20) domes, Fukuoka (Oct 24), Hong Kong's Kai Tak Stadium (Dec 5), Taipei Dome (Dec 12), Bangkok's IMPACT Arena (Jan 16–17, 2027), and Singapore Indoor Stadium (Mar 6–7, 2027) — with further regions still to be announced.
Summarized from K-Concert Guide by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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NEW YORK — AUG 21
"This & That" becomes Stray Kids' ninth consecutive Billboard 200 No. 1
The album opened atop the Billboard 200 with 369,000 equivalent album units, making Stray Kids the first act in the chart's history to send its first nine charting albums straight to No. 1 — a run that also ties the group with The Rolling Stones for the second-most No. 1 albums by a group in Billboard 200 history, reached faster than any act since The Beatles.
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SEOUL — AUG 7
"This & That" video crosses 12.5 million views within hours
The title track's music video exploded past the milestone on release day, capping off a mini-album that Korean press described as the group's most genre-fluid set yet — eight tracks stretching from the pre-release single "RUN IT" to the acoustic-leaning closer "Back Then."
Summarized from JRL Charts by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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SEOUL — JUN 21
Group announces "RUN IT," a comeback date, and a new world tour in one drop
A cinematic teaser confirmed the pre-release single "RUN IT" for June 24, a full mini-album to follow in August, and a new global run — later revealed as World Tour "RUN IT" — that would eventually take the group to a stadium stage no overseas male act had headlined solo before.
Summarized from Forbes by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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SEOUL — JUL 25–AUG 2
World Tour "RUN IT" opens with five nights at KSPO Dome
The tour's launch leg ran July 25, 26, 29, and August 1–2 in Seoul before heading to Japan, where two nights at Tokyo's MUFG Stadium in late August made Stray Kids the first overseas male act to headline a solo concert at the national stadium.
Summarized from The Korea Herald by Stray Kids Wire staff.
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