Stray Kids Now Have Six Billion-Stream Albums. Only BTS Has More.
Two more Stray Kids EPs just crossed 1 billion streams each on Spotify. JYP Entertainment confirmed this week that "ODDINARY" and "ATE" have both hit the mark, pushing the group's total count of billion-stream albums to six - the second-most of any K-pop group, trailing only BTS.
"ODDINARY," released in 2022, and "ATE," released in 2024, join "Go Live," "In Life," "Noeasy" and "5-STAR" on Stray Kids' list of billion-stream projects. Both new arrivals share something else: each debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, contributing to what is now an eight-album No. 1 streak for the group on that chart.
The milestone lands in a tight window for Stray Kids. The eight-member group opens its "RUN IT" World Tour on July 25 with five shows at Seoul's KSPO Dome - all five sold out as soon as reservations opened - ahead of an August 7 comeback with their 10th Korean EP, "This & That." "ATE" has separately spent 100 weeks on Billboard's World Albums chart, and the Korea Music Content Association certified the album Triple Million in April, confirming more than 3 million copies sold domestically; in the U.S., the RIAA gave "ATE" a Gold certification for surpassing 500,000 units.
For a group built around its own in-house production unit, 3RACHA - members Bang Chan, Changbin and Han - the streaming and sales numbers point in the same direction at once: this isn't a group leaning on one format to carry the other. Physical sales and on-demand streams are both climbing together, years after each album's original release.
The pace behind the milestone is part of the story, too. "ODDINARY" needed a little over four years from its March 2022 release to cross a billion streams; "ATE" got there in about two years from its 2024 debut. Both entered the catalog well after their chart-week peak, meaning the totals reflect sustained listening rather than a release-week spike - the same pattern that carried "ATE" through 100 weeks on Billboard's World Albums chart.
Stray Kids has not announced whether the "RUN IT" World Tour will extend beyond its currently confirmed Seoul dates.
