Stray Kids

Group profile and current lineup

Current members	Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin and I.N
Former member	Kim Woojin
Company	JYP Entertainment
Debut	March 25, 2018
Current status	Active eight-member group
Fandom	STAY

Stray Kids in 2026. Current member portraits below are from the official JYP profile.

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Stray Kids does not ask whether a sound is tasteful before throwing it down the stairs. That is part of the appeal. Sirens, drills, brass stabs, cartoon effects, distorted bass and one suspiciously confident whisper may all report for duty before the first chorus.

The chaos works because the group knows its own grammar. Under the noise are clean rhythmic choices, recurring ideas about identity and pressure, and eight performers who understand exactly when a song needs teeth and when it needs a warm hand on the shoulder.

Meet the members

Bang Chan

Leader · producer · vocalist · rapper. Australian-raised, relentlessly responsible and one third of 3RACHA. He helped choose the original team and still sounds like he personally checks whether every STAY drank water.

Lee Know

Dancer · vocalist. Former professional backup dancer, surgical with details and committed to affection delivered through threats involving air fryers. His dry humor and clean lines keep the group pleasantly off balance.

Changbin

Rapper · producer. A rapid-fire delivery, dense internal rhythm and a voice built like reinforced concrete. Also one third of 3RACHA and living proof that aegyo can survive inside a man shaped like a gym membership.

Hyunjin

Dancer · rapper · visual artist. Long lines, dramatic face control and a performance style that treats every camera like a personal grievance. His painting and self-written music expose a quieter interior.

Han

Rapper · vocalist · producer. The third point of 3RACHA, able to switch from sharp rap to high melodic lines without filing paperwork. His writing often turns anxiety and isolation into compact emotional ambushes.

Felix

Dancer · rapper. Australian-raised, freckled and equipped with a bass voice that has personally recruited half the fandom. Offstage softness makes the sonic trap more effective.

Seungmin

Vocalist. Clear tone, disciplined live singing and the conversational instincts of somebody quietly waiting to roast his friends. He gives the group’s busiest tracks a melodic spine.

I.N

Vocalist · youngest member. A distinctive bright tone, trot roots and a smile that survived years of seven older members treating his personal space as community property.

Quick file

DebutMarch 25, 2018 with I am NOT

Pre-debut release“Hellevator,” October 2017

AgencyJYP Entertainment

Current lineupBang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin and I.N

Production core3RACHA: Bang Chan, Changbin and Han

FandomSTAY, established August 1, 2018

Why “Stray Kids”? The name grew from the idea of young people who refuse the ordinary path and search for a place of their own. Bang Chan was unusually involved in forming the trainee team, which makes the name feel less like a marketing label and more like the original operating principle.

The production engine

3RACHA

Bang Chan, Changbin and Han released music as 3RACHA before Stray Kids debuted. Their writing and production involvement became the group’s most important continuity. They do not work alone, and outside collaborators matter, but the core members are not being handed a random concept every comeback and asked to smile near it.

That consistency explains why the catalog can jump between trap, rock, EDM, boom bap, pop and sentimental balladry without losing its accent.

The actual subject

Identity under pressure

The loud songs attract attention, but Stray Kids keeps returning to the same human questions. Who decides whether you are progressing fast enough? What happens when ambition becomes exhaustion? Can a group build success without letting the industry define the shape of it?

“My Pace,” “Grow Up,” “Side Effects,” “Social Path,” “Cover Me” and “Lonely St.” live in different genres. They are still arguing with pressure.

The unit system

3RACHA

Bang Chan, Changbin and Han. Production, rap, writing and the original self-made spine. Their unit music is often less interested in behaving for a general audience.

Dance Racha

Lee Know, Hyunjin and Felix. Precision, texture, body control and the reason performance videos are required viewing.

Vocal Racha

Seungmin and I.N in the current eight-member structure. Clean melodic contrast inside songs that occasionally sound like heavy machinery discovered self-esteem.

SKZ-PLAYER and SKZ-RECORD

Individual and unit releases gave members room to experiment outside formal album cycles. The projects later fed into the SKZ-REPLAY collections and made the group’s creative archive much larger than the title-track shelf.

History

2017: the survival show was not a normal audition

JYP’s Stray Kids program followed a team selected with Bang Chan’s input rather than constructing a lineup entirely through public voting. Lee Know and Felix were eliminated during the show, then restored before the finale. “Hellevator” arrived before official debut and already carried the group’s defining mix of pressure, frustration and vertical ambition.

2018 to 2019: the “I am” and “Clé” trilogies

I am NOT, I am WHO and I am YOU built the identity question. “District 9,” “My Pace” and “I am YOU” moved from defiance toward connection. The Clé series expanded the sound through “MIROH,” “Side Effects” and “Levanter.” “Side Effects” used abrasive psytrance and became a useful sorting hat: some listeners heard anxiety represented honestly, others heard a blender fighting a migraine.

Woojin left the group in October 2019 for reasons JYP described as personal. The remaining members re-recorded material and continued as eight.

2020 to 2021: God’s Menu changed the scale

GO LIVE and “God’s Menu” turned the group’s self-described “mala taste” into a global signature. The kitchen metaphor was loud, funny and accurate. “Back Door” followed with cleaner funk. NOEASY answered criticism directly through “Thunderous,” while “DOMINO,” “CHEESE” and “Red Lights” showed how many kinds of trouble could fit on one album.

2022 to 2023: Billboard records and genre expansion

ODDINARY, MAXIDENT, 5-STAR and ROCK-STAR debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “MANIAC,” “CASE 143,” “S-Class” and “LALALALA” kept the group recognizable without repeating one production template. “CASE 143” even translated infatuation into an emergency code because ordinary romance was apparently underdressed.

2024 to 2025: stadium logic

ATE brought “Chk Chk Boom” and a Deadpool-and-Wolverine cameo circus. HOP highlighted individual tracks. KARMA and DO IT continued a run of Billboard No. 1 debuts, while the dominATE tour expanded into stadiums across multiple continents. The group reached the point where “can this fill a bigger venue?” stopped being a useful question.

2026: RUN IT and THIS & THAT

“RUN IT” arrived June 24 as a pre-release written and produced with 3RACHA participation. It framed endurance as an anthem rather than a confession. The RUN IT world tour opened with five sold-out KSPO Dome dates and made Stray Kids the first overseas male act scheduled for a standalone concert at Japan’s National Stadium.

The tenth mini album THIS & THAT is scheduled for August 7, 2026. JYP announced that all eight tracks were written and produced by 3RACHA. As of this page update, that is an upcoming release, not a review pretending to have heard the future.

The commercial record

Stray Kids built an unprecedented run of consecutive No. 1 debuts on the Billboard 200. The number matters, but the more interesting part is that the group reached that scale without sanding away the production habits that initially made people call the music noisy. Success did not make them quieter. It bought them larger speakers.

Start with the music

If you want the identity thesis

“Hellevator,” “My Pace,” “Grow Up,” “Levanter,” “MIROH” and “Social Path.”

If you want controlled noise

“God’s Menu,” “Side Effects,” “Thunderous,” “S-Class,” “MEGAVERSE” and “Chk Chk Boom.”

If you want the feelings they hid in the back

“Secret Secret,” “Silent Cry,” “Cover Me,” “Waiting for Us,” “Scars” and “Lonely St.”

If you want stage danger

“DOMINO,” “MANIAC,” “TOPLINE,” “LALALALA,” “Charmer” and “RUN IT.” Dance practices are mandatory.

Current review

RUN IT

The track turns Stray Kids history into forward motion. References to earlier versions of the group reward longtime listeners without making newcomers sit an entrance exam. The beat is built for a stadium response, and the video treats past identities as fuel rather than discarded costumes.

Read the complete “RUN IT” review.

The whole shelf

Song reviews

Open every Stray Kids review, performance reaction and tea post. Reviews discuss the song first, then the video, choreography, credits and whatever visual object volunteered for thematic duty.

Former member

Woojin

Member from the pre-debut team through October 2019. Woojin was part of Stray Kids’ original nine-member lineup and early vocal structure. JYP announced his departure and contract termination citing personal circumstances. The group continued as eight and re-recorded several earlier tracks for SKZ2020 and SKZ2021.

He belongs in the history file as a former member. He is not part of the current lineup, and his absence does not require rewriting the albums on which he actually performed.

Fandom file

STAY

The idea is simple: “You make Stray Kids stay.” The fandom anniversary is August 1 and is celebrated through STAYweeK content. The official light stick is the Nachimbong, named from the Korean word for compass. A group of strays gave its audience navigation equipment. Cute. Slightly threatening.

Common term: OT8 means support for all eight current members.

Official doors

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Receipts and deeper reading

Current status

Stray Kids is active as an eight-member group. The RUN IT world tour is underway. THIS & THAT arrives August 7, 2026, with all eight tracks credited to 3RACHA for writing and production. The volume remains high. The point remains personal.

YouTube video tracking history

Official videos connected to this profile. Current total views and daily gains are supplied automatically by the CVM Sekai YouTube Tracker.

RUN ITSTRAY KIDS · official videoDaily+170.4KTotal views67.3M CEREMONYSTRAY KIDS · official videoDaily+81.3KTotal views132.6M HollowSTRAY KIDS · official videoDaily+51.4KTotal views48.8M Walkin On WaterSTRAY KIDS · official videoDaily+65.4KTotal views111.4M

2026 profile refresh

Stray Kids is documented here as current eight-member self-producing group. This refresh connects the current release “FARMING” to the existing career file without replacing older eras or manufacturing a second biography. The canonical-page rule matters: a comeback changes the chronology, not the identity of the person or group that released it.

What changed with this release

“FARMING” is now part of the official-video tracker and static React card system. The exact upload is preserved, so viewers do not land on a teaser, mirrored playlist item or unrelated performance. The profile explains the career context; the dedicated React handles the close visual and musical reading.

How to read the current era

Stray Kids has enough history that “current” should never mean “only the newest thumbnail.” Styling, distribution, credits and live performance can shift between releases. This file keeps those changes in sequence and distinguishes confirmed credits from interpretation, because confident fan repetition is not the same thing as an official record.

Member and Artist routing

One human receives one canonical page. If Stray Kids has verified independent original music, this profile can appear under both member and Artist discovery without being cloned. Covers, special stages and group lines are still worth archiving, but they do not automatically create a separate solo career or a duplicate search result.

Image-card standard

The image below is a static card, not an infinite carousel. It uses the same local WordPress attachment as the React’s featured, hero, Open Graph and Twitter image. The card may appear on multiple relevant landing pages, but that attachment is never reused as the featured image of another post.

International discovery path

Start with the official artist and company channels, then verify schedules and status through durable notices. Exact video IDs are recorded beside the work. That source-first path makes the catalog usable outside Korea, where algorithmic feeds often surface clips quickly but hide the release chronology and member context.

What the tracker includes

Official music videos, special clips and clearly labeled performance films can all appear in the tracker, but their formats stay visible. A special clip is not renamed an official MV, and a collaboration is filed under every real credited artist without pretending a game or brand is a K-pop group.

RaeRae take

The useful excitement is specific. “FARMING” earned a place here because something in its beat, concept, delivery or chemistry made replay feel necessary. The profile does not flatten that reaction into generic praise; it gives the React room to argue with the details while this page protects the factual spine.

What to watch next

Watch the official credits, live-stage changes, member handoffs and whether the next release expands the identity or repeats its easiest signal. Future updates will attach exact uploads and verified status changes here, keeping the archive readable instead of scattering one career across disconnected pages.

Stray Kids FARMING React image card

Stray Kids FARMING — read the exact-video React

Exact official upload

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CqeGHXXioU

Stray Kids FARMING

Exact official video ID: 6CqeGHXXioU. This is the upload linked by the dedicated React.

Archive continuity note

Stray Kids remains one continuing career file. Dates, exact uploads, lineup status and independently verified credits are added here before interpretation. That keeps the page current without deleting the route that brought listeners to “FARMING” or turning a new promotional cycle into a false debut.

Archive continuity note

RaeRae Reacts

JJAM: Stray Kids Put the Beat in a Factory and Refused Every Safety Inspection — exact playlist upload 7ytGFxD-FcI.

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Double Knot — exact-video React

React image cards

Static cards route each exact official upload to its own in-depth React. Every card repeats that React’s featured and hero image so the archive stays visually traceable.