(LEAD) TXT and New Jeans to take stage on '2023 Lollapalooza' as headliner

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▲This photo shows stage of TXT during 2022 Lollapalooza. (Yonhap)

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SEOUL March 22 (Yonhap) -- K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together, which is leading the scene of 4th generation of K-pop groups will be participating at the “2023 Lollapalooza” happening in August as a headliner.

According to the committee of Lollapalooza on March 21 (US time) the line up of the concert featured Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Odesza and Tomorrow X Together were selected as the headliner for the upcoming show.

Lollapalooza will kick off on August 3 until 6 at the Grant Park located in Chicago. On nine of various themed stages over 170 various teams and artists will perform with the amazing background of Chicago’s famous skyscrapers and Michigan lake.

Chicago tribune addressed “K-pop boy band TXT is returning back to Lollapalooza” while addressing the lineup for 2023 festival.

Boy group Tomorrow X Together debuted in United States through the stages of Lollapalooza in 2022. Moreover, the group wrote the history of becoming the first South Korean artist to have taken the stage on Lollapalooza. This will be group’s comeback as a headliner for the festival in a year.

“2022 Lollapalooza” featured BTS’ J-hope, who was the first member to have released his solo album as a headliner. After his successful stage, numerous fans and audiences were very interested and mesmerized including the committee of Lollapalooza where they disclosed “J-hope is the fist artist from South Korea to have been selected and performed as a headliner of one of the major music festivals of United States.”

Tomorrow X Together who belongs to the same entertainment agency as BTS, took the stage a day before J-Hope and received a lot of love from fans and received a positive feedback from local media disclosing “The stage was very powerful and energetic.”

K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together recently released group’s fifth mini album “Temptation” in over three years and 11 months since the group released their previous album. Group’s fifth mini alum “Temptation” managed to top the “Billboard 200” as a result TXT will be the fifth K-pop group to have topped the billboard album chart.

The tickets for the Lollapalooza will go on sale starting on March 23 at 10 (US Mountain Time). Given the size of the Grant Park in total of 400 thousand tickets in total will be released which comes down to 100 thousand tickets per day.

Lollapalooza kicked off in 1991 under the motto of “Alternative Cultural Festival” where up until now various famous musicians such as Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, Ariana Grande, Chainsmokers, Muse and more have performed.

In the beginning the location of the festival varied, however starting in 2005, they have decided to fixate the location and host the festival in Chicago every year.

On top of TXT HYBE’s girl group NEW JEANS will also be taking the stage in Lollapalooza.

According to the group’s agency ADOR “New Jeans will be the first K-pop girl group to have been invited to music festivals held in Chicago.”

On top of Lollapalooza, New Jeans will perform at Japan’s biggest music festival “Summer Sonic 2023.”

Music festival “Summer Sonic 2023” will take place on August 19 and 20, in Tokyo and Osaka. K-pop girl group New Jeans will be taking the stage on the first day of the festival at the Zozo Marine Stadium located in Tokyo and Makuhari Messe in Tokyo.

Moreover, K-pop boy group ENHYPEN will be participating at the “Summer Sonic 2023,” and perform on both first and second day of the event in both Tokyo and Osaka.

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo)

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