Stray Kids' 'RUN IT' pre-release single debuted on June 24, 2026 and within hours delivered something their entire catalog had never achieved: the No. 1 slot on the United States iTunes Songs Chart — a first in the group's history — while simultaneously topping iTunes in 40 additional regions for a clean 41-country sweep on release day.
WHAT 'RUN IT' SOUNDS LIKE — AND HOW 3RACHA BUILT IT
Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han produced 'RUN IT' in full under the 3RACHA banner, as they have for the core of Stray Kids' discography. The sound scales their signature compressed rap-pop outward into something genuinely stadium-sized: brass stabs borrowed from marching-band tradition, percussion that breathes like a 50,000-seat room, and a world-beat undercurrent that gives the track geographic expansiveness their earlier work rarely reached for. Lyrically, the song is about momentum — unstoppable drive, movement without apology — language that travels cleanly across the language barriers the STAY fanbase has never much respected anyway.
'RUN IT' is positioned as a pre-release, not the flagship single. That role belongs to THIS & THAT, the full studio album arriving August 7, 2026, and the song's function is temperature-setting: cinematic, world-scale, forward-facing. On that basis, it succeeds without qualification.
STRAY KIDS RUN IT WORLD TOUR: EVERY CONFIRMED VENUE
Announced in parallel with the single, the RUN IT World Tour begins in Seoul this July with multiple nights at KSPO Dome before expanding through Asia. The confirmed Part 1 itinerary includes Japan National Stadium in Tokyo, Kyocera Dome Osaka, Taipei Dome, and Hong Kong's Kai Tak Stadium — venues extending through early 2027. North America, Europe, and Latin America fall under 'and more,' with Part 2 announcements expected within weeks.
Japan National Stadium is not a standard K-pop venue: it holds up to 68,000 people and is typically associated with legacy Western artists and domestic major sporting events. Booking it places Stray Kids in a tier of live performance scale that very few K-pop groups have reached, and signals that JYP is treating the THIS & THAT campaign as the group's most ambitious global push to date.
EIGHT CONSECUTIVE BILLBOARD 200 NO. 1S — AND WHY A NINTH SEEMS INEVITABLE
No act in Billboard 200 history has debuted eight consecutive albums at No. 1 — until Stray Kids achieved it with DO IT in late 2025, moving 2.21 million copies in its Korean opening week. That record positions them above every K-pop peer and most Western acts by that specific metric. THIS & THAT is built to extend the streak to nine, arriving at a moment when the group's commercial ceiling has yet to be clearly defined.
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