Hyunjin and Felix’s aura and their connection to Paris are so healing. I was reminded of the time Felix dreamed that he and Hyunjin were hugging in Paris haha.
I love these soulmate moments in their friendship 🩵
Every photoshoot of his is so sensual... he is a model
Chan went on the Fridge Interview show with Sana from TWICE as the host. This episode
is going to be so warm - the two of them are really adorable together 🥺
Sana shared that when other trainees would leave after 10 PM, she stayed behind in the practice room to keep working. And every time, Chan would walk her back to the dorm because he didn't want her to go alone - even though the walk only took about five minutes.
They also talked about a story fans already know. Back when they were trainees, Chan would save his meal tickets and give them to the TWICE members because they weren't allowed to eat pork but really wanted to. In the end, he got in trouble for it, but he took all the blame himself. That's so sweet.
And this conversation really touched me:
Chan: Yeah i saw Sana cry a lot.
Sana: I think Chan saw that more than anyone...
Chan: That's right. Even though i'm younger than you, i always tried to listen to your worries.
Sana: He listened to me anytime, even in the middle of the night. He's truly one of a kind.
I’d love to know! I’ve heard that Jeongin supports Manchester United and Hyunjin support Real Madrid but i don’t know anything else... Please share any information you might have 🙏🏻
Photo by Changbin. Body so tea, facecard never declines
Most streamed K-pop groups in Europe last 12 months (YouTube Music):
#1 Stray Kids — 650M
#2 BLACKPINK — 605M
#3 BTS — 530M
#4 BABYMONSTER — 303M
#5 TWICE — 182M
#6 ENHYPEN — 179M
#7 LE SSERAFIM — 170M
#8 ILLIT — 129M
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Wow, Stray Kids are so loved in Europe... Their last comeback was 7 months ago with a 4-track mixtape album but they're pulling such amazing numbers!
And... last year Stray Kids also ranked #1 in streams in Europe.
They're also generating incredible numbers on Spotify in Europe and have staged the biggest stadium concerts there for asian artists. Attracting nearly 60k people across Europe for both days of the concert is simply fantastic... I'm so proud of them!
Phew.. This is part 2 of the rabbit hole of genre madness that is Stray Kids 🤓☝️
Disclaimer: I'm not a musician, not a producer, not a perfect genre expert. I'm just a fan who judges genres and music from my non-professional perspective. If you disagree with how I placed some genres, please say it nicely ❤️* If there are mistakes here, please don't be too harsh^^ I'm not a native english speaker*.
Important: For some songs, i got help with genre placement from the YouTube channel kpop stuffs and the Stray Kids Fandom site! And I didn't use AI to figure out the genres of the tracks, because that's basically impossible to do anyway.
Big thanks to everyone who showed love for this post on Reddit, Twitter, and other social media! I hope you enjoy part 2.
(The full list is below)
By macrogenres (rock, EDM, Hip Hop, etc.) — 14
Discography base (by macrogenres):
Mini-facts:
• Stray Kids have a track called Wolfgang, which ibput in the Horrorcore genre. if you listen closely, the instrumental has an organ melody, which is often used in this genre, and the low rap, howling and wolf barking sounds only add to that feeling.
• In JJAM and GIANT, you can find a genre called Brostep a more aggressive version of dubstep with sharp "twisting" sounds.
• Malataste a unique subgenre that Stray Kids themselves came up with. I added it as a tribute in God's Menu, but many people use it to describe the group's entire music overall. "Spicy" music that affects all your senses. Perfect for an ADHD brain.
• Stray Kids were the ones who started the phonk wave in kpop with LALALALA... And the rage wave, too. Both of these subgenres and their smaller variations have been booming in kpop for the last two years.
• Please listen to Entrance... In this track, they pulled Tribal Psybient from the depths and decided it was a great start to the trilogy. This genre is psychedelic ambient with ethnic elements.
• Stray Kids in general really love house, but in my heart, the subgenre is Big Room House. In my opinion, it's that "festival" sound that makes you want to join a mosh pit.
Mini-facts are done! Thanks everyone.
🎸 2018:
Hellevator - Hip Hop, Melodic Dubstep
BEWARE - Nu Metal, Grunge, Rage
Spread My Wings - Melodic Bass, Pop Trap
YAYAYA - Rock, Trap
Glow - Contemporary R&B
School Life - Nu Disco, Eurodance
4419 - Melodic Hip-Hop
NOT! - Hardcore Hip-Hop, Liquid Drum and Bass
District 9 - Nu Metal, EDM Trap, Rapcore
Mirror - Melodic Bass, Electro
Awaken - Nu metal
Rock - Industrial Metal
Grow Up - Melodic Hip-Hop
3rd Eye - Dream Pop, Dark Ambient
WHO? - Space Rock, Post Alternative Rock
My Pace - EDM Trap, Rock
Voices - Future Bass, EDM
Question - Synth Funk, Trap
Insomnia - Future Bass
M.I.A. - Chill Trap
Awkward Silence - Dance Funk
YOU. - Liquid Drum and Bass
I am YOU - Pop Trap, Contemporary R&B
My Side - Nu metal, Progressive Rock
Hero's Soup - Trap Soul
Get Cool - Kawaii Bass, Melodic Hip-Hop
N/S - Trap, Electro
0325 - Liquid Drum and Bass, Post Alternative Rock
🎆 2019:
Entrance - Tribal Psybient
Miroh - Hip Hop, Future Bounce, EDM
Victory Song - Hybrid Trap, Epic
Maze of Memories - Hybrid Trap, Hardcore Hip-Hop
Boxer - Electronic Hip Hop, Glitch Hop
Chronosaurus - Alternative Rock, Acoustic
19 - Alt R&B
Road Not Taken - Psytrance
Side Effects - Darkpsytrance
TMT - Melodic Bass, Slap house
Mixtape #1 - Electro House, Hip-Hop
Mixtape #2 - Acoustic ballad
Mixtape #3 - Tropical house
Mixtape #4 - Moombahton
STOP - Dance, Hip Hop, Psytrance
Double Knot - Electro House, Festival Trap, Dubstep
Levanter - Electro-pop, Power Ballad
Booster - Glitch Hop, Melodic Bass
Astronaut - Progressive House
Sunshine - Lo-fi Hip Hop
You Can Stay - House, Electropop
🌶️** 2020**:
God's Menu - EDM Trap, Malataste
Easy - Trap, Hardwave
Pacemaker - Dance, Trap
Airplane - Melodic Hip-Hop, Pop Trap
Another Day - Acoustic, Lo-fi
Phobia - Future Bass, Power Ballad
Blueprint - Tropical House
TA - Big Room House, Tribal House
Haven - Electro House
The Tortoise and the Hare - Jungle Hip Hop, Psytrance
Mixtape: On – Contemporary R&B
Back Door - Funky House
B Me - Melodic Dubstep, Power Ballad
Any - Crunk, Hip Hop
Ex - Contemporary R&B
We Go (3RACHA) - Trap
WOW (DanceRacha) - Jazztronica
My Universe (VocalRacha) - Contemporary R&B
TOP - Future Bass
SLUMP - Alternative
FAM - Pop, Future Bass
ALL IN - EDM Trap
One Day - Hip-hop, Ballad
🍀 2021:
Cheese - Rock, Big Beat, Hip Hop
Thunderous - Brass Hop, Gugak, Folk, EDM
Domino - EDM Trap, Drum and Bass
SSICK - Electrohop, EDM Trap
The View - Synthpop, Electro House
Sorry, I Love You - Contemporary R&B, Ballad
Silent Cry - Melodic Bass, Trap, Synthpop
Secret Secret - Contemporary R&B, Soul
Star Lost - Big Room House
Red Lights (Chan, Hyunjin) - Dark Alternative R&B
Surfin' (Lee Know, Changbin, Felix) - Tropical House
Gone Away (Han, Seungmin, I.N) - Power Ballad
Wolfgang - Horrorcore Trap, Classical
Mixtape: Oh - Electropop
Christmas EveL - Christmas Hip-Hop
24 to 25 - Acoustic, Carol
Winter Falls - Alt R&B, Acoustic
Scars - Melodic House
Call - Lo-fi, Melodic Hip Hop
🤓 2022:
Venom - Trap, Industrial, EBM
Maniac - EDM, Afrobeat, Funk, Midtempo Bass
Charmer - EDM Trap, Baile Funk
Freeze - Riddim, Dubstep, Hybrid Trap
Lonely St. - Soft Rock, Emo Rap
Waiting For Us (VocalRacha) - Soft Rock, Rock Ballad
Muddy Water (Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix) - Jazz, Boom Bap
CASE 143 - Electro-hop
CHILL - Soul, Lo-fi R&B, Melodic Hip-Hop
Give Me Your TMI - Glitch Hop, Progressive Funk, Otacore
SUPER BOARD - Darksynth, Boom Bap, Otacore
3RACHA (Bang Chan, Changbin, Han) - UK Drill
TASTE (Lee Know, Hyunjin, Felix) - Dark R&B, EDM
Can't Stop (Seungmin, I.N) - Pop Rock
CIRCUS - Funky House
Fairytale - House, Future Bass
Connected (Bang Chan) - Moombahton, UK House
Limbo (Lee Know) - Rock Ballad
Doodle (Changbin) - UK Drill
Love Untold (Hyunjin) - Emo Rap
Run (Han) - Cloud Rap
Deep End (Felix) - Acoustic, Blues
Stars and Raindrops (Seungmin) - Rock Ballad, Reggae
Hug Me (IN) - Acoustic Funk
Lovestay - Contemporary Ballad
Zone (3RACHA) - UK Drill
Close (Han) - Emo Rap
Streetlight (Changbin) - Emo Rap
I Hate to Admit (Bang Chan) - Ballad
I Got It (Han) - Hardcore Trap
Miss You (Hyunjin) - Acoustic
Maknae On Top (I.N) - Latin Trap
Alien (Han) - Emo Rap
Because (Changbin, Felix) - Acoustic
Piece of a Puzzle (Changbin, Seungmin) - Contemporary R&B
Wish You Back (Han) - Emo Rap
Happy (Han) - Emo Rap
Up All Night (Bang Chan, Changbin, Felix, Seungmin) - Latino
Drive (Bang Chan, Lee Know) - Pop Trap
Ice Cream (Hyunjin) - Acoustic R&B
⭐️** 2023**:
Your Eyes - R&B Ballad
THE SOUND - Electronic Rock
Battle Ground - Nu Metal, Jazztronica
Lost Me - Rock Ballad
DLMLU - Trap Soul
Novel - R&B, Jazztronica
There - Contemporary R&B
Hall of Fame - Trap Metal, Space Rock, Rapcore
S-Class - Boom Bap, Club EDM, Pop
ITEM - Video Game Theme, EDM Trap, Rage
Super Bowl - ASMR, Trap Pop
TOPLINE (Feat. Tiger JK) - East-Coast Hip Hop, Drill, Hardcore Trap
DLC - Tropical House, Moombahton
GET LIT - Moombahton, Bounce EDM
Collision - Jazzy R&B, Bossa Nova Jazz
FNF - Deep House, Electro Pop
Youtiful - Piano Ballad, Country Pop
Mixtape: Time Out - Pop Punk
Social Path - Alt Rock, Drum and Bass
Butterflies - Melodic Hip Hop
Slash - Cinematic Bass, EDM Trap, Folk
Lose My Breath - R&B, Garage
MEGAVERSE - Synth-rock, Electro house, EDM Trap, Epic
LALALALA - Afrobeats, Drift Phonk, EDM, Pop Rock
BLIND SPOT - Pop Rock, Drum and Bass, Soul
COMFLEX - Electro Hop, Hip Hop
Cover Me - Power Ballad
Leave - Pop-rock Ballad, Lo-fi
💥 2024:
MOUNTAINS - EDM, Epic, Hip Hop, Rock
Chk Chk Boom - Latin Hip Hop, Reggaeton
JJAM - Future riddim, Brostep, Trap
I Like It - Pop Drill, Drum and Bass
Runners - Drum and Bass, Drill, Synthpop
Twilight - Jazz, Blues
Stray Kids - Drum and Bass
GIANT - Brostep, Epic, Trap
NIGHT - Nu Metal, J-Rock
Falling Up - Rock, Trap Pop
WHY? - Rock
Saiyan - Pop Rock, Trap
愛をくれたのに、なぜ (love is painful) - Rock, Power Ballad
Christmas Love - Synthpop, Carol
Walkin On Water - Old-school Hip Hop, Boom Bap
Bounce Back - Old-school Hip Hop, Rock
U (Feat. Tablo) - Melodic Hip Hop, Drum and Bass
Railway (Bang Chan) - Dark Alt R&B
Unfair (Felix) - Soul, Hip Hop
HALLUCINATION (IN) - Downtempo, Hip Hop
Youth (Lee Know) - Funk, Synthpop
So Good (Hyunjin) - Electro Funk, Hip Hop
ULTRA (Changbin) - Industrial, Epic Trap
Hold My Hand (Han) - Pop Rock, Drum and Bass
As We Are (Seungmin) - Pop Rock Ballad
🏅2025:
Hollow - Synthrock
Parade - Trap, Tribal Industrial
Never Alone - Pop Rock
just a little - Sentimental Ballad
Fate - J-Rock
BLEEP - Trap, Midtempo Bass
CEREMONY - EDM Trap, Baile Funk, Funk carioca
CREED - Dark Trap, Rage
MESS - Emo Rap, Pop Rock
In My Head - Pop Punk
Half Time - Retro Funk, Baile Funk
Phoenix - Electro House, Drum and Bass
Ghost - R&B, Trap Soul
0801 - Synthpop
Burnin' Tires - Breakbeat, Rock
Cinema - Acoustic, Power Ballad
Escape - Alt R&B, Trap Rock Ballad
Truman - Rage, Jazzbeat
Do It - Reggaeton, Pop
Divine - G-Funk, Boom Bap, Jazztronica
Holiday - Two-Step, Dance Pop, Drum and bass
Photobook - Rock Ballad
📈 2026:
Disclaimer: I'm not a musician or a producer. I'm just analyzing content based on my own amateur knowledge and internet sources.
Recently, I fell down a rabbit hole and cataloged every original Stray Kids release, excluding different versions, remixes, and SKZ-Replays that weren't officially released
Over 206 songs, Stray Kids used 100 different genre labels.
Here are a few conclusions:
All kinds of EDM and electronic music - 91 songs, 44% of their discography.
All kinds of Hip Hop - 74 songs, 36%
All kinds of ballads - 37 songs, 18%
All kinds of R&B, Soul - 32 songs, 15%
Acoustic, Lo-fi, Bossa Nova, etc. - 19 songs, 9%
Around 90 soft or mid-tempo tracks, which is 43% of their whole discography.
Stray Kids have over 70 songs in different types of rock, punk and metal, which is almost as much as EDM and Hip Hop in their discography.
Some niche genres from their discography: Darkpsytrance (Side Effects), Riddim Dubstep (Freeze), UK Drill (3RACHA), Drift Phonk (LALALALA), ASMR (Super Bowl), Country Pop (Youtiful), Latin Trap (Maknae On Top), Blues (Deep End), Garage (Lose My Breath), Industrial (Venom), etc.
SKZ's Japanese releases are noticeably heavier than their korean ones almost all of them use rock, metal, and heavy electronic music.
The core sound is built on genres like Hip Hop, EDM, Trap, Rock, Punk, Drum and Bass, and R&B.
Stray Kids really love mixing incompatible genres, which creates their unique sound that's hard to find anywhere else not just in kpop but outside of it too.
Every second Stray Kids song contains new genres.
Many genres have never been used in songs by other k-pop artists or Stray Kids were the first to use them in the industry.
Stray Kids often use strange and very specialized musical instruments, such as the steel tongue drum.
It has a meditative quality, and the fact that 3RACHA made it the main track of Do It, a track with a "just relax and do it" message, is very thoughtful. 3RACHA's genius lies in a multitude of small details - and this fact is even one of the most obvious.
GUESS is doing a great campaign with Hyunjin in the US, and now you can come and see the billboards with Hyunjin right in Times Square.
He's the first 4th gen idol to get an individual billboard there. I'm so excited.
Rock in Rio 2026 broke the record for the fastest ticket pre-sale in the festival's history. Confirmed by the festival itself.
Stray Kids are the first K-pop artists in history not only to perform at Rock in Rio, but also to headline the festival.
At the beginning of the year, during the general sale, all tickets for the Rock in Rio day featuring Stray Kids sold out at a record-breaking speed - this marked the first time since 2013 that festival tickets sold out in less than an hour after sales began. The only previous instance of such high demand was for Beyoncé's performance.
Stray Kids completely sold out their StrayCity shows in Mexico - totaling approximately 116,000 tickets across two days.
Due to overwhelming demand, an additional date was added.
By selling over 116,000 tickets in Mexico, Stray Kids broke their own dominATE tour records for fastest sellout and highest ticket sales - achieving this in less than a week after the first date was announced.
Due to overwhelming demand, an additional date was also added in Argentina - tickets will go on sale on June 1. A total of 120,000 tickets are expected to be sold for Argentina!
Additionally all 60,000 tickets for the Straycity concert in Argentina have been sold out This is Stray Kids' first show with over 60,000 attendees, surpassing their concerts at Stade de France, which had 58,600 across both days.
This also becomes the largest concert ever by a 4th-generation K-pop act - previously this record was held twenty-four times by Stray Kids themselves!
They become the second K-pop act to sell out 60,000 tickets for a show outside Asia.