The group Stray Kids (Stray Kids) topped the 2025 annual album chart and showed momentum by being nominated for a global music awards.
According to Circle Chart, a music charting site, which announced on its official website on the morning of the 9th, Stray Kids ranked first on the 2025 annual album chart with their fourth full-length album KARMA (Karma), released in August 2025. The work, which announced the return of the "music league champion", sat at the top of the ranking that summarizes the year, achieving total sales of 3,397,810 copies amid steady love from domestic and international fans.
SKZ IT TAPE (SKZ It Tape) "DO IT" (Do It), released in November 2025, also ranked third, once again engraving Stray Kids' name at the top of the annual album chart. Earlier, KARMA and DO IT ranked first and second respectively on Circle Chart's 2025 annual retail album chart, which accumulates offline album retailer sales, showcasing their powerful album sales.
Stray Kids was nominated in the "K-pop Group of the Year" category at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards, which will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 26 (local time). Hosted by iHeartRadio, the largest online radio broadcaster in the United States, the awards ceremony honors the artists and songs most played on the broadcaster and its application over the year. Stray Kids, which won the "K-pop album of the year" trophy for two consecutive years in 2024 and 2025, succeeded in being nominated for a third consecutive year, reflecting their popularity.
On Jan. 22 they will attend and perform at the French "Le Gala des Pièces jaunes" (Le Gala des Pièces jaunes) charity event. On June 6 and Sept. 11 they will appear as headliners at the global mega music festivals the Governors Ball Music Festival in the United States and Rock in Rio in Brazil. On Feb. 4 the film Stray Kids: The dominate Experience, which lets fans feel once more the energy of the world tour "dominATE" ("dominate") that covered a distance equivalent to "seven laps around the earth," will be released exclusively at CGV theaters nationwide.
[Photo] JYP Entertainment, provided by iHeartRadio.
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