Stray Kids will headline the BST Hyde Park festival and I-Days music festival in the summer, making Stray Kids the first K-pop boy band headliner of the festivals.

Stray Kids will be performing at the I-Days Festival, held in Milan, Italy on July 12, followed by a performance at the BST Hyde Park festival on July 14, held in Hyde Park in London, England.

I-Days, first kicked off in 1999, was home to many popular artists including Green Day, Liam Gallagher, Justin Bieber and more. Alongside Stray Kids, legendary rock band Metallica, American rapper and singer Doja Cat, singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, rock band Sum 41 and more will join this year’s festival.

BST Hyde Park festival — which Blackpink headlined last year, a first for a K-pop act — will see Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams headline the festival alongside Stray Kids.

Stray Kids also performed at the Le Gala des Pièces Jaunes, a charity event in Paris, last Friday, as the first K-pop band to perform at the event.

Stray Kids debuted in 2017 under JYP Entertainment. The band consists of eight members: Bangchan, Leeknow, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin and I.N.

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BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]