The storied UK music pageant Glastonbury has invited Seventeen to headline its 2024 version – marking a significant milestone for the Ok-Pop style, Rolling Stone reviews.
No Ok-Pop act has carried out in a top-slot on Glastonbury’s iconic Pyramid Stage beforehand. The pageant, which has been operating since 1970, tends to be dominated by Western performers.
Seventeen might be joined by fellow headliners Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA, Shania Twain, LCD Soundsystem, and PJ Harvey, amongst others. Glastonbury is ready to happen 26-30 June and greater than 200,000 festival-goers are anticipated to attend.
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The band can also be anticipated to play on the Lollapalooza pageant in Berlin, Germany, come September.
Having Ok-Pop acts carry out at main European festivals is one other signal of the style’s ascent as a dominant pressure within the international music scene. Final month, the Worldwide Federation of the Phonographic Trade (IFPI) introduced that 4 of 2023’s 10 best-selling acts hailed from South Korea.
Seventeen premiered a brand new music – the “That means of Assembly” – in Macao again in January. Noise and different issues ensuing from their stadium live performance on the Olympic Sports activities Centre induced the native authorities to rethink how large-scale music occasions ought to be run in Macao.
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