Stray Kids Shatter Billboard Year-End Charts, Cementing K-Pop's Global Dominance

Global K-pop sensation Stray Kids has achieved unprecedented success on the U.S. Billboard Year-End charts, significantly elevating their international standing.

According to the official 2025 Year-End charts released by Billboard, Stray Kids' fourth full-length album 'KARMA' secured the 5th position on both 'Top Album Sales' and 'Top Current Album Sales', marking the highest ranking for a K-pop release in these categories.

The group also dominated 'World Albums Artist' at number 1 and 'Top Albums Sales Artist' at number 2. They ranked 7th in 'Top Duo/Group' and 49th in 'Billboard 200 Artists', achieving the highest positions among K-pop artists. Furthermore, they landed at 4th place in the 'Billboard 200 Artists Duo/Group' category. The title track 'CEREMONY' from 'KARMA' impressively entered the 'Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales' chart at number 20, making them the sole Asian artist to chart in this category.

In the 'World Albums' chart, 'SKZHOP HIPTAPE' album '合 (HOP)' claimed the top spot, with their fourth full album 'KARMA' following closely at number 2. '合 (HOP)' also charted at 7th on 'Top Album Sales' and 6th on 'Top Current Album Sales'. Both 'KARMA' and '合 (HOP)' made appearances on the 'Billboard 200 Albums' chart at 128th and 157th, respectively. Stray Kids also ranked 69th on the 'Top Artists' chart. Their world tour, 'Stray Kids World Tour < dominATE >', secured the 10th position on the 'Top Tours 2025' chart, the highest for any K-pop act.

This year, Stray Kids achieved a remarkable feat by charting a total of 7 consecutive and 8 consecutive entries on the Billboard main album chart, 'Billboard 200', with their albums 'KARMA' and 'DO IT' (from 'SKZ IT TAPE'). These albums debuted at number 1, making Stray Kids the third group globally with the most number-one albums on the 'Billboard 200'. They also broke their own records, becoming the first group in 'Billboard 200' history with 8 consecutive number-one albums and holding the record for the most number-one albums in the 2000s decade.

With their ongoing dominance across major U.S. Billboard charts and Year-End rankings, global attention is keenly focused on Stray Kids' continued meteoric rise.

Korean netizens are buzzing with excitement, commenting, 'Stray Kids are truly amazing!', 'They're totally dominating Billboard', and 'Let's keep soaring to success, our proud SKZ!'