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Stray Kids \/ Courtesy of JYP Entertainment<\/p>\n
Stray Kids has added another milestone in Japan, earning the group’s third streaming platinum certification as the group prepares to launch three nights of concerts at Tokyo Dome on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpecial,\u201d the lead track of the group’s third full-length album, \u201c\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 (5-STAR),\u201d surpassed 100 million cumulative streams in Japan as of September 2026, earning platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan, according to JYP Entertainment.<\/p>\n
The achievement marks the group’s third Japanese streaming platinum certification, following those awarded to \u201cMANIAC,\u201d from the mini album \u201cODDINARY,\u201d and \u201cCASE 143,\u201d from \u201cMAXIDENT.\u201d<\/p>\n
The certification comes ahead of Stray Kids’ Tokyo Dome concerts, scheduled for Friday through Sunday as part of its \u201cRUN IT\u201d world tour.<\/p>\n
The Nov. 7 performance, second of the three Tokyo shows, will also be broadcast live in cinemas worldwide in partnership with global event cinema distributor Trafalgar Releasing.<\/p>\n
The group’s Japan tour has included a concert at Tokyo’s National Stadium in August, where Stray Kids became the first overseas male act to perform a solo concert at the venue, followed by shows at Vantelin Dome Nagoya, Kyocera Dome Osaka and Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka.<\/p>\n
The series of performances, including the three Tokyo Dome shows, is expected to attract approximately 520,000 people, according to JYP Entertainment.<\/p>\n
Stray Kids is also maintaining its presence on the U.S. charts with the mini album \u201cTHIS & THAT,\u201d released in August.<\/p>\n
The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Aug. 22 and has remained on the chart for 12 consecutive weeks as of the Nov. 7 edition.<\/p>\n
It also extended the group’s record of nine consecutive releases debuting at No. 1 on the chart, beginning with \u201cODDINARY\u201d in 2022.<\/p>\n
This article was published with the assistance of generative AI and edited by The Korea Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stray Kids \/ Courtesy of JYP Entertainment Stray Kids has added another milestone in Japan, earning the group’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-675424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}