Glastonbury to Welcome First K-Pop Headliner: Seventeen

Kory Grow
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Seventeen. - Credit: The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins/Getty Images
Seventeen. - Credit: The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins/Getty Images

This summer, one of England’s longest-running music festivals, Glastonbury, will welcome its first K-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, among others. Billboard reports that the groundbreaking moment for K-pop fans follows Blackpink’s headlining gig last year at BST Hyde Park in London.

As always, the festival will take place on Michael Eavis’ Worthy Farm in Pilton this year from June 26 to June 30. Ticketing info is available on the festival’s website. Some other notable artists making their debuts at the festival, which has run irregularly (to give the land a chance to recover) since 1970, include Cyndi Lauper, Camila Cabello, and Avril Lavigne. More than 200,000 festivalgoers are expected to attend.

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According to Billboard, Seventeen will also appear at Lollapalooza in Berlin in September, making up for canceled dates from 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic put the world on lockdown.

In January, Seventeen premiered a new song, “The Meaning of Meeting,” at a concert in Macao’s Olympic Sports Center Stadium in China. The group, which released a video for the song using footage from its concerts in Macao, sang the song in Mandarin. Although they have released Chinese versions of their songs before, the release of “The Meaning Meeting” marked the first time the group released an original song only in Mandarin.

The single followed the October release of Seventeen’s most recent album, Seventeenth Heaven, and last April’s FML. In 2022, they released their first English-language single, “Darl+ing.”

“In every language we sing in, we try to show Seventeen as we are,” group member S.Coups told Rolling Stone. “And I know that people whose native language is not Korean have to work hard to understand our message. So when we record, we want to try as hard as they do when they listen to our music so we can share that together.”

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