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This summer time, one in all England’s longest-running music festivals, Glastonbury, will welcome its first Ok-pop artist as a headliner: Seventeen. The group will headline the Pyramid Stage alongside Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA, Shania Twain, LCD Soundsystem, and PJ Harvey, amongst others. Billboard studies that the groundbreaking second for Ok-pop followers follows Blackpink’s headlining gig final 12 months at BST Hyde Park in London.
As at all times, the pageant will happen on Michael Eavis’ Worthy Farm in Pilton this 12 months from June 26 to June 30. Ticketing data is out there on the pageant’s web site. Another notable artists making their debuts on the pageant, which has run irregularly (to present the land an opportunity to get better) since 1970, embrace Cyndi Lauper, Camila Cabello, and Avril Lavigne. Greater than 200,000 festivalgoers are anticipated to attend.
In response to Billboard, Seventeen can even seem at a number of different festivals round Europe this summer time, making up for canceled dates from 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic put the world on lockdown.
In January, Seventeen premiered a brand new tune, “The Which means of Assembly,” at a live performance in Macao’s Olympic Sports activities Middle Stadium in China. The group, which launched a video for the tune utilizing footage from its concert events in Macao, sang the tune in Mandarin. Though they’ve launched Chinese language variations of their songs earlier than, the discharge of “The Which means Assembly” marked the primary time the group launched an unique tune solely in Mandarin.
The only adopted the October launch of Seventeen’s most up-to-date album, Seventeenth Heaven, and final April’s FML. Final 12 months, in addition they launched their first English-language single, “Darl+ing.”
“In each language we sing in, we attempt to present Seventeen as we’re,” group member S.Coups informed Rolling Stone. “And I do know that individuals whose native language will not be Korean should work laborious to know our message. So once we document, we wish to attempt as laborious as they do after they hearken to our music so we will share that collectively.”
