Stray Kids’ ‘S-Class’ music video tops 300 million YouTube views

Stray Kids’ music video for “S-Class” has surpassed 300 million views on YouTube.

The video for “S-Class,” the title track from the group’s third full-length album “5-STAR,” released June 2, 2023, reached 300 million views on the morning of Feb. 19. The milestone gives Stray Kids six music videos with more than 300 million views, following “God’s Menu,” “Back Door,” “Thunderous,” “MANIAC” and “Rock.”

“S-Class,” the title track from “5-STAR” — Stray Kids’ third No. 1 album on Billboard’s main albums chart, the Billboard 200 — was written and composed by Bang Chan, Changbin and Han of the group’s producing unit 3RACHA. The song carries a message about standing out and shining among the unusual and the special. Set in Seoul, the music video highlights the eight members’ performance and polished visuals, drawing favorable responses from fans in South Korea and abroad.

Stray Kids have added more milestones since the start of this year. They recently ranked No. 2 on the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s Global Artist Chart, the only K-pop act in the top 10. On Spotify, the group’s first full-length repackage album “IN生” surpassed 1.5 billion cumulative streams, and “God’s Menu,” the title track from its first full-length album “GO生,” topped 500 million plays — a first for a fourth-generation K-pop boy group. Their world tour concert film “Stray Kids: The DominATE Experience,” released on Feb. 6 local time, also led the global box office for the first weekend of February.

Stray Kids will hold their sixth official fan meeting, “Stay in Our Little House,” four times at Inspire Arena in Incheon on March 28-29 and April 4-5. In June and September, they are set to headline major music festivals, including New York’s The Governors Ball Music Festival and Rock in Rio in Brazil.