Hyunjin added, “Through ‘Thunderous,’ we wanted to share our own unique kind of music.” I.N said, “I think that ‘Thunderous’ is an extension of the ‘mala ’ genre.

Bang Chan explained, “The message of the song is that Stray Kids, as sorikkun, will face off against the jansorikkun and confidently let loose our sound.” The Korean title of “Thunderous” is “ sorikkun,” a term that refers generally to a singer, usually of traditional Korean music forms. We worked hard to have this album express the things that we’re always discussing and striving to improve.”

Seungmin added, “We’re approaching our work with the sense of responsibility and confidence that the title of ‘Kingdom’ winner gives. We were able to work more confidently on this album with that certainty as our basis.” We also became more certain of the music and performances that Stray Kids could do. ”Įarlier this year, Stray Kids took home the final win on Mnet’s competition show “Kingdom: Legendary War.” Changbin said, “After ‘Kingdom’ ended, we were able to feel even more strongly our pride in our team and the love that STAY has for us. Bang Chan said, “Since our last album promotions, for the repackaged version (“In Life”) of our first studio album, we’ve experienced a lot of things. Thanks to those experiences, I think that we’re able to show how much Stray Kids has grown to STAY. This is Stray Kids’ first comeback in eleven months. On the Instagram chart, BLACKPINK’s Lisa, who recently released a solo album in September, topped with 430,000 additional followers.Ahead of the release of their second studio album, “NOEASY,” and the title track “Thunderous,” Stray Kids talked about their comeback in a Q&A session. In the 36th week of the fandom chart, global top artist BTS topped the Twitter and Spotify follower charts with 250,000 and 300,000 additional followers, respectively. Following the existing ‘Weekly Music Video Chart,’ the K-pop Radar will release the ‘Weekly Fandom Chart’ and show rankings of artists who has expanded the size of the fandom.

‘Weekly Fandom Chart’ launched in September is also drawing attention. They are representative 4th generation K-pop artists in Korea as well as overseas.”Īlso, on the weekly chart of K-pop Radar this week, fromis_9 ranked No.2 with 13.33 million views of their ‘Talk & Talk’ music video. Regarding this, K-pop Radar said “Stray Kids are gaining popularity in Korea too after their performances at ‘Mnet Legendary War: Kingdom’. Considering that the percentage of views in Korea at the time of the last activity was 1.3 per cent, the percentage of views in Korea has more than doubled.

with 7.3 per cent, Japan with 6.3 per cent, and the Philippines with 5.0 per cent. Mexico accounted for the highest percentage with 8.6 per cent, followed by Indonesia with 7.6 per cent, the U.S. In addition, they broke their fastest record to 50 million views that song ‘God’s Menu’ had, setting the new record.Īccording to the Stray Kids’ YouTube views by country analyzed by K-pop radar, Stray Kids has received about 65.9 million views over the past week. ‘THUNDEROUS’ actually recorded 50 million views in six days and 21 houses, breaking their fastest record of the previous album ‘Back Door’ faster than 2.2 times. Stray Kids’ ‘THUNDEROUS’ music video hit 18.64 million views during the counting period of K-Pop Radar’s 36th weekly chart (August 29 to September 4), proving their continuous amazing popularity even in the second week since the release. Seoul, September 8 (ANI/Global Economic): K-pop group Stray Kids has topped the weekly chart of K-Pop Radar for 2 consecutive weeks.

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