SEVENTEEN will make UK history as the first K-pop act to perform at Glastonbury Festival

SEVENTEEN are set to make headlines this summer in the UK, where they will become the first K-pop acts to perform on the main stage at Glastonbury festival.

The band are booked for Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, joining a stacked bill headlined by Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA and Shania Twain.

The five-day festival is scheduled to take place from 26-30 June 2024 at Eavis' Worthy Farm in Pilton, South West England.

Also making their Glasto debuts are Avril Lavigne, Cyndi Lauper and Camila Cabello, while rock, pop, hip-hop and electronica stars take their places in the lineup, from Idles to Burna Boy, Little Simz, The Last Dinner Party, LCD Soundsystem. , PJ Harvey, Janella Monae and more.

The granddaddy of British music festivals, Glastonbury, staged on Michael Eavis' dairy farm, will welcome more than 210,000 party-goers this summer, a mass of humanity larger than the population of Norwich or Oxford. tickets sold out before the lineup was announced on Thursday.

Girl group Blackpink broke barriers when, in 2023, they became the first K-pop group to headline a festival in the UK, playing to an audience of 65,000 at London's BST Hyde Park.

CARAT will also get the chance to see SEVENTEEN on continental European soil when the pop group headlines Lollapalooza Berlin later this summer – also a first for a K-pop act.

Set for September 7-8 at the German capital's Olympiaastadion and Olympiapark, Lollapalooza Berlin's bill also includes Sam Smith, Martin Garrix, Burna Boy, The Chainsmokers, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Shirin David and CRO.

The shows are rewarding, in a way. SEVENTEEN were going to visit Europe during their ODE TO YOUR WORLD tour in 2020, but those shows were canceled due to the pandemic.

SEVENTEEN is coming off a banner year in which the group released 16 million combined album units worldwide, including their 10th mini album FML (April 2023) and onwards SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN (October 2023).

FML topped the IFPI World Albums Chart, with 6.2 million combined copies worldwide based on streams, downloads and physical sales during the calendar year 2023. The compilation was the most pre-ordered LP in K-pop history, reaching No. 1 in South Korea and Japan, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and helping SEVENTEEN to No. 2 on the federation's World Artists Chart, behind Taylor Swift, confirming the 13-piece act as the most popular group on the planet last year.