Stray Kids Make History By Landing Multiple #1 Debuts On Billboard 200 This Year

Worldwide stars Stray Kids has set another milestone! The boy group’s new mini-album, “MAXIDENT” places #1 on the Billboard 200 this week, making them the first K-Pop act to debut their first two charting albums on the Billboard 200 at #1.

As soon as its release, the title track of the album ‘CASE 143’ toppled Billboard’s “Favorite New Music”. The album aslso received pleasant reviews from different media outlets.

Stray Kids do things their own way.
PAPER

“MAXIDENT” tells you everything you need to know about the group on first listen: their propensity for chaos, their love of dirty bass lines, their hard-hitting style, and their refusal to stick to any one genre.
Teen Vogue

This is a group of true experimenters and artists showing their thrilling progression in real-time. With “MAXIDENT”, it feels like there’s no limit on what they can do – and certainly no stopping as they push ever forward.
NME

The album’s name “MAXIDENT” is a combination of two words “Max” (or Maximum) and “Accident/Incident”, pertaining to the “huge incident” that strikes Stray Kids called love. The title track, ‘CASE 143’ sets the stage for “MAXIDENT”. As Stray Kids’ first love-themed title track, ‘CASE 143’ highlights their unique expression through the metaphorization of confusing, never-felt-before emotions as an “occurrence of an incident,” and using the “code” 143 (I LOVE YOU) to decipher love. The harmony of the synth lines that descend the chromatic scale and the lyrics serve as a listening point. Through the various genres and sound changes within the track, listeners are able to feel Stray Kids’ unique, vividly rich transitions, tempo, and energy.

Check out the music video of ‘CASE 143’ here.

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